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a night, and an author, to remember The Gilman legacy of Walter Lord â&#x20AC;&#x2122;35.

mrs. o. looks for green

BLUE &GRAY Featuring the 96th Gilman-McDonogh Classic

learning for themselves and others

Service learning contributes to character.

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November 4 & 5, 2011

Margaret Olgeirson traverses the globe.

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Editor Jodi Pluznik Director of Communications

Assistant Editors Karaline Jackson Graphic Designer David Rosenfeld Public Relations Officer Contributors M. Kate Ratcliffe Director of Development

Discover the Benefits of Planned Giving at Gilman

Ashley Principe Associate Director of Development Angie Brickhouse Assistant Director of Annual Giving Stephanie Felton Director of Alumni Relations Mac Barrett ‘67 Alumni Special Projects Coordinator Beth Siwinski Intern

Design Jeremy Hoffman Printing Pavsner Press Photography Erik Kvalsvik ’73 Steve McDaniel ’65 Meir Pluznik David Rosenfeld Cynosure Photographers

Planned gift vehicles allow you to arrange for a gift beyond what you may contribute during your lifetime, with the promise that your ultimate act of generosity will ensure that future generations of students will cherish their Gilman education, friends and memories as much as you do yours. Planned gifts can help you save taxes, increase your income, leave more to your heirs and support Gilman School at the same time. These gifts are some of the most powerful philanthropic tools available to Gilman benefactors. To learn more about including Gilman School in your will or establishing a life-income gift to benefit you or someone of your choosing, please contact the Development Office at 410-323-7178.

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To commemorate the completion in 1910 of Gilman School’s new Roland Park campus, a grasshopper weathervane, symbolic of freedom and financial success, was chosen to adorn the bell tower of the new building, now called Carey Hall.

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Bulletin 4 A Night, and an Author, to Remember

The legacy of Walter Lord ’35 lives on at Gilman. fred rasmussen

12 Mrs. O. Looks for Green

A Lower School science teacher spends her sabbatical exploring the globe in search of environmental literacy. margaret olgeirson

20 3 Schools, Connecting as 1

Coordination among Gilman, The Bryn Mawr School and Roland Park Country School might be Gilman’s best-kept secret. david rosenfeld

28 Learning, For Themselves and Others

Service learning helps students develop empathy, understanding and compassion for others. jodi pluznik 2

Message from the Headmaster

46 In Memoriam 65 Class Notes

Departments 34 School News Middle School travelers blog from France. 42 Alumni Alumni gather in Calif., N.Y. and Mass. 50 Athletics Gilman’s varsity squash team makes its mark. 60 Development Timothy P. Lekin Scholarship established.

The Headmaster poses with Jay Davidson â&#x20AC;&#x2122;85 and a Grand Prix race car. The campus was safe from racing; there was no engine in the car.

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From the Headmaster

As you read this Bulletin, we will have concluded another year at Gilman — our 114th! By some standards, the School is still young, but it has been around long enough to establish itself as a premier educational institution. This issue celebrates the people, curriculum and values that help to create the excellence that is the fabric of Gilman. You will read about Walter Lord, a true Gilman giant, and the legacy that he has left to us. Not only does his name live on at the Walter Lord Library in the Middle School, but “A Night to Remember” is still part of the Middle School curriculum. Walter’s generosity provides countless faculty professional development opportunities, a very prestigious Middle School faculty award and an endowment that supports the Middle School library. Our teachers do all that they can to inculcate in our students loves of writing and of history, passions that were so evident in Walter Lord. Another feature of this Bulletin examines coordination among Gilman, Roland Park and Bryn Mawr. For well over 30 years, we have shared Upper School classes with our two sister schools. Through this coordination, physically represented by the bridges over Northern Parkway and Roland Avenue that connect the campuses, the tri-school community shares resources and offers to our students a curriculum that rivals that of a small liberal arts college.

Students have a choice of seven languages, over 30 outstanding English courses and expanded choices in history, mathematics, science and computer science. Coordination gives us the best of both worlds: On the one hand, we offer an extremely rich coed program in our Upper School, a great benefit for our boys; and, on the other hand, we maintain our identity and the feel of an all-boys’ institution. In this Bulletin you will also find articles describing teachers who pursue their passions, and who pass that passion to their students. You will read of teachers and coaches who demand the best and make sure that their students or athletes learn essential skills, and you will learn about teachers and coaches who model the Gilman Five and work to help their charges develop the depth of character that they will need to navigate through life. We are so fortunate that these people immerse themselves in the life of the school. So enjoy this latest addition of the Gilman Bulletin. Learn what is happening on campus, catch up with classmates through the Class Notes, and, hopefully, you will be inspired to stop by for a visit.

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Walter Lord at his desk in New York City.

A Night, and an Author, to Remember Two Deliver Talks to Gilman Students on an Alumnus Noted for his Titanic Work fred rasmussen baltimore sun

wo New York authors, Jenny Lawrence and John MaxtoneGraham, shook off the rain and chill of a dreary fall Thursday in Baltimore and quietly stood in the well of the Gilman School auditorium waiting for 255 sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students to take their seats. They were there to tell the students about one of their own: Walter Lord, the noted historian and writer who graduated from Gilman in 1935. Christopher Lee, founding partner, director and CEO of AIG Highstar, and his wife, Susan Ginkel, who is a member of the Gilman board, have two sons at the school and endowed a scholarship in Walter Lord’s name. They were responsible for bringing the two authors to Baltimore. During his student days at the Roland Park private school, Lord had fallen under the spell of the Titanic, the huge White Star liner that plunged to the bottom of the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg off the Grand Banks.

It is part of Gilman legend that Lord had so honed his skills in telling the story of the ill-fated Titanic’s last moments for his senior speech that parents called the school to complain that he had been responsible for giving their children nightmares. Lawrence and Maxtone-Graham, who were both longtime intimates of Lord, gave flawless presentations, holding their youthful audience’s rapt attention for almost an hour.

memoir of lord Lord had attended Princeton and Yale Law School with Lawrence’s father and spent many Christmases with her family at their home in Washington, as well as leading them on informed tours of nearby Civil War battlefields. Lawrence is the author of “The Way It Was: Walter Lord on His Life and Books,” a memoir she assembled from Lord’s unpublished material and taperecorded interviews she had made in the 1980s. The book was published last year.

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Maxtone-Graham, an author, marine historian and chronicler of the lost age of the great trans-Atlantic liners, told The Baltimore Sun at Lord’s death in 2002 that “Walter was a giant, there is no other way to describe him. He single-handedly revived interest in the Titanic after it went underground, so to speak, with ‘A Night to Remember,’ which was an electrifying book.” Both lectures were illustrated with slides of vintage pictures and maps. Lawrence, who spoke first, told the students that Lord was 10 years old when he wrote his first account of the loss of the Titanic. She included a very fine slide of an eerily and remarkably accurate crayoncolored drawing that Lord had made to accompany his report, showing the Titanic going down by the head with all of its lights ablaze. Lord’s “A Night to Remember” was published in 1955 and subsequently made into a full-length motion picture, as well as being the inspiration for numerous TV specials and documentaries. Each of Lord’s books, Lawrence told the students, was “built around great historic events and the firsthand experience of its participants.” In order to get vivid firsthand accounts, Lord printed up forms that he asked participants to fill out and return to him. His working method for his books, she explained, was what Lord called the “Mrs. Murphy chowder approach, where everything went into it.” “He’d read newspapers, diaries, reports, court documents, official and personal accounts, which he used,” Lawrence said. Lawrence said that by the time Lord died at 83, he had written 12 books, many of which had been best-sellers. She said Lord described his last book, “The Night Lives On,” as being “very much beloved by the author,” because in her words, “he was brought back to the story that had gripped his imagination since childhood, that he had never, ever let go.”

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another ship nearby Much of his last book speculated on the role of the nearby liner Californian and its master, Capt. Stanley Lord, which was stopped in the ice some 10 miles from the Titanic, and why the ship’s officers ignored the Titanic’s emergency flares, which rose high into the night sky. (The two Lords were not related.) “If Walter could go back in time,” she said, “it was to be on the bridge of the Californian to see what happened that night.” Maxtone-Graham was next, his mission being to tell the students about the Titanic. Maxtone-Graham explained that the Titanic was an Olympic-class liner, the second vessel of three. The Olympic, the Titanic’s sister, was the first vessel, hence the Olympic-class designation, which was followed by the Britannic. The ships were defined by their four massive buff-and-black painted funnels. The three vessels were built and launched at the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland, MaxtoneGraham said, pointing out a subtle difference between the Olympic and Titanic. He noted in two pictures that the promenade deck on the Titanic was enclosed by glass while the Olympic’s remained open, and it was a way to tell the liners apart. “After Titanic sank, unscrupulous newspapers were peddling pictures of Titanic which were actually the Olympic,” he said. After observing passengers getting wet on the Olympic, J. Bruce Ismay, who was chairman of the White Star Line, ordered them glassed-in on the Titanic and Britannic.

‘hideously dangerous’ Maxtone-Graham also dispelled a longheld belief that the White Star Liners were a powerful competitor on the North Atlantic run. “The Cunarders — Lusitania, Mauretania and Aquitania — were five-day ships, while the White Star vessels were six-day

Walter Lord and his mother aboard the RMS Olympic, July 1926.

ships,” he said. “They got around it by saying you had a sixth day at sea with which to relax.” A slide of a picture of an iceberg flashed on the screen with red paint along its base, purported to be the one that sank the Titanic. He then explained the concept of an iceberg, and why they are so dangerous when they wander into the sea lanes. “Icebergs are hideously dangerous,” he said. “It’s like an ice cube in a glass: Most of its mass is below the surface.” This is what resulted in the 300-foot-long gash from an underwater sliver of ice along the Titanic’s superstructure that caused its sinking. He also interjected a little humor when showing a slide of the Titanic’s grand first-class staircase. “This is where a rather wooden detective fired five times at Leonardo DiCaprio and missed,” he said, referring to the 1997 movie. Maxtone-Graham, whose latest book, “France/Norway,” about the former glamorous French Line ship, is being

The Titanic as drawn by Walter Lord. A handwritten note reads “Twenty years ago,” placing the date of the drawing to 1932.

published this month, showed a slide of a 9-year-old Walter Lord on the deck of the Olympic on his first voyage to Europe in 1926. He concluded his talk with a photo showing the Titanic’s crumpled bow resting some two miles below the surface. “She is still on course headed toward New York,” he said. “And her two capstans are kept polished by the current.”

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Walter Lord during his Gilman days.

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Walter Lord’s adventurous spirit and love of learning live on through his many gifts to the School as well as the generosity of those who knew and admired him.

jodi pluznik

The November 4, 2010, visit of John MaxtoneGraham and Jenny Lawrence to the Gilman Middle School, described in Fred Rasmussen’s article, gave students the opportunity to learn about a man who surrounds their daily activity. Just as “A Night to Remember” has never been out of print, Walter Lord’s Gilman legacy hardly fades. That Gilman celebrates Walter Lord nearly a decade after his June 2002 death results from the generosity of those who knew and admired him as well as his own love for his alma mater. First, there are physical representations: A sweet portrait of a rosy-cheeked boy hangs in the Walter Lord Library in the Middle School. If, according to the dedication of “Gilman Voices,” Walter Lord ’35 is “a Gilman boy forever,” that boy lives forever on the wall of the library that bears his name. (When John M. T. Finney Hall, the middle school building, first opened in 1995, the Walter Lord Library was dedicated.) Opposite, a plaque decorated by sterling silver White Star Line ship spoons lists the names of the recipients of the Walter Lord Middle School Teaching Prize. The prize recognizes the teacher who is most effective

in helping to develop student communication skills, reflecting the abilities to write effectively, read with comprehension, speak with persuasion and research analytically, all keystones of a Gilman education valued by Lord. What a casual observer may not know is that Walter Lord collected the spoons that decorate the teaching prize plaque. Popular souvenirs in their day, the spoons are similar to those that would have been aboard the Titanic on its fateful journey. Lord left his collection to Jonathan Hornblower, Jenny Lawrence’s brother and Lord’s attorney and friend, who, in turn, gave them to Gilman. Hornblower specified that the spoons be given as awards to recipients of the Walter Lord Middle School Teaching Prize, which he established. He also donated the portrait of Walter as young boy. Against the library’s glass entrance sits a builders model replica of the ill-fated Titantic. A display case outside the entrance boasts, among other artifacts, the pencils Walter Lord used to write “A Night to Remember.” Each year, Gilman sixth graders read “A Night to Remember” in their language arts classes.

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Christopher Lee P’13, ’14 holds a lifelong fascination with ocean liners, and “A Night to Remember,” is among one of Lee’s favorite reads. Although they never met, Lee calls Walter Lord his hero. He and his wife Susan Ginkel donated the Titanic model. Yet the greatest influence comes from Lord himself. In 1996, Lord wrote a bequest that left the residuary of his estate to Gilman. He indicated that the monies would support faculty education and faculty sabbaticals. Today the fund receives additional contributions from continuing royalty income as Lord left copyrights for his books and professional articles to the School. Among these is a copyright for the lyrics of a song that Lord wrote, “The Third Man,” a.k.a. “The Harry Lime Theme.” Lord understood that giving faculty the time to explore new areas or ponder a special subject is essential to the quality of the Gilman educational experience. The Walter Lord Faculty Development and Sabbatical Fund provides an important vehicle to encourage faculty to engage study and activities that will ultimately enhance the classroom experience for students. In addition to establishing the faculty development fund, Lord left his most treasured personal possessions to the School. Eclectic collections related to his writings were displayed throughout Lord’s New York apartment. He had a lifetime fascination with history, which he credited Upper School history teacher Herbert Pickett for igniting, and he brought history to life in his books like “Day of Infamy,“ “The Dawn’s Early Light” and “The Past that Would Not Die,” which put the reader at the center of great events. He effectively created the narrative history genre. The Lord Collection, housed in the Gilman archives, includes two early scrapbooks Lord compiled that include magazine and newspaper clippings of the great ships and ship disasters. Other memorabilia in the scrapbooks, like the privately printed “A Letter from a Survivor of the Lusitania” and ships’ promotional pamphlets, personalize Lord’s interest in the great ships. Historical perspectives, accounts of battles, personal diaries, biographies

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and other publications comprise his vast collection of books, many about the Civil War and original to the time period. A tree trunk with a hunk of shrapnel, identified as “Manassas 1862,” is an all too solid reminder of the devastation of that war. Two fascinating volumes of original newspaper clippings capture the tragic deaths of two great presidents. Coverage of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is seen in several pages of The New York Herald, April 15–16, 1865. The assassination of John F. Kennedy is glimpsed through The New York Times, Dallas Times Herald, The Daily News and Life Magazine.

Walter Lord Middle School Teaching Prize Recipients 2011–2012 2010–2011 2009–2010 2008–2009 2007–2008 2006–2007

Matthew T. Tully Donald Abrams Brooks B. Matthews Christopher Legg Kim Eddinger S. Butler (Bo) Grimes

Over 150 of Walter Lord’s friends and fans assembled outside The Walter Lord Library in John M. T. Finney Hall for the library’s dedication on May 13, 1995. Meanwhile, like many a Gilman senior moments before his Sixth Form speech, Walter pictured left, had sneaked into a nearby classroom to put the finishing touches on his text. It was exactly 60 years earlier that Walter had given his senior speech on the sinking of the Titanic.

“When I began writing ‘A Night to Remember,’ I used a pencil. That was the way I wrote a theme in Mr. Lipscomb’s class. I considered a pencil defunct, not when the lead ran out, but when the eraser was used up. There’s a sermon here somewhere, but I don’t want to sound pompous,” said Walter Lord in 1996, when he gave the 276 pencils with which he wrote “A Night to Remember” to Gilman School.

A replica builders model of the Titanic, given to the School by Susan Ginkel and Christopher Lee P’13, ‘14.

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Margaret Olgeirson traveled to Belize on a trip organized by the North American Association of Environmental Education.

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Over the 24 years that I have taught in the Lower School, sharing science with enthusiastic and curious little boys, my interest in environmental education and my awareness of the need for all of us to become more respectful of nature has grown. The boys and I have learned together about the world around us, and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve realized that there is so much more to understand. In 2009, I submitted a proposal for the Riepe Family Sabbatical, with a goal to study environmental literacy at home and abroad. I was eager to learn what is taught about environmental issues in other places and how our efforts at Gilman measure by comparison.

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Of course, I was thrilled to hear that I had received the Riepe Sabbatical for the spring 2010 semester. Though the sabbatical gave me the gift of time to become a globetrotting ecological explorer, my first trips were in Gilman’s backyard. Locally, I visited our neighboring schools to exchange ideas and consider their environmental activities. I found that most maintain gardens similar to our own. Many enrich their teaching by creative uses of their campuses and the outdoors. All had recycling and composting programs comparable to ours. Some had earned the “Green School” accreditation, as we have in the Lower School. It is encouraging to know we are all helping the next generation prepare for the future of our environment. I also visited a local farm, where we talked about the need for sustainable farms and the benefits of eating locally. I worked with the farm to have a hands-on experience, and I gained an appreciation of gardening on a grand level. I also made a great discovery at the Great Kids Farm, located in Catonsville. Its mission is to provide opportunities for Baltimore City students to understand and participate in every aspect of food preparation — from seed to fork — and prepare them to lead 21st century sustainability efforts. After spring break, I took our first graders to the farm for a tour and to learn all the steps a gardener takes to eventually reap a harvest. I also explored the New York Botanical Gardens, Longwood Gardens, Ladew Gardens and the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens to enrich my interest in making gardening with children exciting and rewarding for them. I have so many new ideas about what to plant, when to plant and how to plant in our own Lower School garden. I’m not sure who will reap the most from our efforts, the boys or me! I enjoyed touring the Philip Merrill Environmental Center, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s new green building. Its design, construction and operation reflect the CBF’s mission to protect and restore

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the Bay. The CBF’s Chesapeake Classroom programs help teachers like me focus on methods to incorporate environmental education into the core subject areas of reading, math, science and social studies. There are often opportunities for students to plant bay grasses, bed oysters or collect acorns from our campus to be planted in needed areas of our watershed. Participating in these activities helps our students extend their experiences beyond our classrooms. I also ventured well beyond the Bay, joining a trip to Belize through the North American Association of Environmental Education to explore the country’s unique environment and the challenges it faces. As a group we visited the famous Belize Zoo, which houses representative plants and animals of the rainforest and raises money to help save this special environment. We visited with the Maya people and learned about their enduring culture. Gardening is very important to the Maya, and they explained how they pass on their knowledge of plants by protecting ancient sites and establishing school gardens. We toured howler monkey and jaguar sanctuaries established and maintained by the Maya to protect these important animals from the human invasion of their natural habitats. Just off the coast, we discovered fragile mangrove and coral reef ecosystems. I was very impressed by the love and understanding the Maya have for their environment and their conviction to protect it for the future. Each year in Lower School science, we explore a specific biome. This year, we studied the oceans. I explained to the boys how the mangroves I visited are like nurseries for the oceans. I was also able to tell them through firsthand observation about what happens when part of the ecosystem is removed, as was the case of a tiny island that Smithsonian scientists were trying to preserve as they study this fragile ecosystem.

Since returning to Gilman, Olgeirson has raised funds for Bakau Lower School and encouraged second-grade pen pals. “It’s exciting to continue my relationship with this school and its students,” she says.

Mrs. O. visits the garden at the Bakau Lower Basic School in The Gambia. Jackie Knipp, left, and Margaret Olgeirson with Gambian children. During Mrs. O.’s sabbatical, Jackie Knipp, the Lower School art teacher, was awarded the Walter Lord Sabbatical to travel to The Gambia in West Africa to visit her daughter Megan, who was a St. Mary’s College student studying abroad.

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Gilman Lower School boys raised $195 for the Bakau Lower Basic School in The Gambia through an aluminum can drive in February 2011.

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During my sabbatical, Jackie Knipp, the Lower School art teacher, was awarded the Walter Lord Sabbatical to travel to The Gambia in West Africa to visit her daughter Megan, who was a St. Mary’s College student studying abroad. Megan’s studies were specific to the environment, and she was working with the government to complete an ecological study. This opportunity was a perfect for me to join Jackie and Megan and to explore the workings of Gambian museums, gardens and municipal offices. We visited several different schools in the area and the teachers generously allowed us to help execute some of their lessons. The needs of the students and faculty of the Bakau Lower Basic School made a big impression on me, and when I returned to Gilman this fall, I told my students about their need for lavatories for their students and for financial aid to help some children attend their school. We decided to help them, and we raised money from projects like aluminum can drives, a yard sale and a car wash. These efforts also help us support the environment. My second grade class has adopted some of the students as pen pals to help us learn more about their environment and culture. We plan to share some of our science experiments, straw rockets and rock testing with them. It is exciting to continue my relationship with this school and its students. After these two exciting trips, I looked to the Sierra Club to help me give back. I traveled to New Mexico to join a group that would work at the Valles Caldera National Preserve to remove barbed wire fences that had been abandoned and were now causing problems for the indigenous wildlife. At the end of a hard day’s work, we were treated to lectures about native animals, like wolves and hawks, and the native culture of the Jemez Pueblo. We spent one day tagging along with scientists as they studied the local flora and fauna and set up observation stations. At the end of the day, we hoped to answer the question “What do ecologists and

environmentalists really do?” I learned that an ecologist is a synthesizer, someone who learns from every source, whether science, anthropology or geology, to learn about the relationships between living things and their environments. When we teach environmental literacy to the boys, we are all ecologists. My next trip led me to Great Britain, a country long inspired by its environment. The concept of environmental education is firmly established in the educational systems of England and Wales. Drawn by the green countryside of Wales, I visited beautiful national parks. The Ty’r Morwydd Environmental Study Centre and several schools offered information about their outdoor education programs. The English and Welsh are sensitive to the need of children to be in nature, and take advantage of nearby green spaces to do so. I believe that their goal is the same as ours: to encourage children to enjoy and respect the outdoors. During the summer my husband and I traveled to China. Our tour included the cities of Beijing, Xi’an, Guilin, Yangshuo and Shanghai. We traveled with a diverse group, including teachers and students. While seeing significant sites and being informed about history and culture, we asked about education and the environment. The Chinese people are very aware of environmental issues and what is happening as a result of their actions and growth. Their efforts could be seen as we traveled around the country. This enormous country has found itself on the world stage as it has hosted the 2008 Olympics and the 2010 World Expo. The theme for the expo was “Better City, Better Life,” putting an emphasis on the global impact we all make on the environment. Many countries were represented and each creatively shared its environmental philosophies. The expo was well attended and school children were excited by the ideas presented. Despite the distance I had traveled and the uniqueness of the country, I felt comfort in and confidence for the future from these young people.

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Since returning to my teaching responsibilities in the Lower School, I have had many opportunities to share and build on the learning I experienced during my sabbatical. I made a presentation to the students and faculty of the Lower School called “Mrs. O. Looking for GREEN.” During this presentation, I shared the pictures I had taken during my global travels to emphasize the awareness of environmental needs all over the world and the importance of making a difference through learning and deed. I also was a presenter during an Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS) workshop for teachers, encouraging them to make a connection with nature as we extend our teaching to the outdoors. My “Greenhounds” club continues to encourage green awareness around Gilman. We are making a difference! My goals include getting the boys out in the natural environment and helping them develop an informed respect for its well being. We will apply for recertification as a “Green School.” During Earth Week, we enlarged the Lower School garden to include more edible plants to share in the dining hall. We will participate in bay studies to help round out our local environmental relationship. The sabbatical time and funds allowed me to travel widely and witness environmental education locally and globally. I explored an amazing world that must be seen and enjoyed! I witnessed how much people care about the environment, and that we are making a difference, no matter how small. The Riepe Sabbatical provided me an extraordinary opportunity to grow personally and professionally. The experiences have inspired many new ways for me to enhance my teaching and engage my students in environmental awareness and action. I am indebted to the Riepe family for their generosity and support of Gilman School.

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The Riepe Family Sabbatical The Riepe Family Sabbatical rewards consistent excellence in teaching and promotes continuing educational development for the faculty. A member of the faculty from the Lower, Middle or Upper School each year will be awarded a semester sabbatical. To be eligible a faculty member must have been at Gilman for at least seven years and have achieved full teacher status. Mr. and Mrs. James S. Riepe PP’94 generously established this endowed fund in 1999.

Recipients: 2011 – 2012 2010 – 2011 2009 – 2010 2008 – 2009 2007 – 2008 2006 – 2007 2005 – 2006 2004 – 2005 2003 – 2004 2002 – 2003 2001 – 2002 2000 – 2001

Neil Gabbey Karl Connolly Margaret Olgeirson Cynthia Woodruff Dallas Jacobs Linda Trapp Claudia Friddell Dan Christian Jerry Thornbery Steve Siwinski Meg Tipper Anton Vishio

The theme for the World Expo in Shanghai was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Better City, Better Life,â&#x20AC;? putting an emphasis on the global impact we all make on the environment.

Mrs. O. removes barbed wire fencing in the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico. The abandoned fencing causes problems for indigenous wildlife. The green hills of Wales. The British are sensitive to the need of children to be in nature, and take advantage of nearby green spaces to do so.

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Gilmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coordinate program with the Bryn Mawr School began in 1974; Roland Park Country School joined in 1987.

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One of the shortest essays in “Gilman Voices,” the history of Gilman’s first 100 years, is also one of its most surprising. The approximately 1,500 words on pages 413 and 414 aren’t from the mind of a grateful alumnus, a veteran faculty member or a legendary headmaster. Instead, they come from a then-21-year-old Princeton University student named Brent McCallister, whose unisex first name disguises the fact that Brent is a female. She’s a Roland Park Country School girl who also went to Gilman, part of the tradition of Upper School academic coordination between Bryn Mawr, Roland Park and Gilman that began two decades before McCallister walked the halls and continues today. Still, if you ask some of the people who know best, that tradition remains relatively unknown. In fact, coordination might be Gilman’s best-kept secret. “Most of the folks we see at admissions fairs or open houses have no idea about the coordination in the Upper School,” says Gilman Director of Admissions and Financial Aid Bill Gamper ’71. “We are a

boys’ school and will continue to be, but the coordination allows our older students the best of both worlds.” The positives behind the coed experience centered on Northern Parkway and Roland Avenue are both academic and social and, in many instances, indispensable. How else, for instance, would any of the schools’ musicals or plays really get off the ground? Still, as McCallister said in her essay, there’s more to it than just the physical limitations of single-sex education. “I don’t think my education would have anywhere near as complete had I not had my six classes at Gilman,” she wrote. “For me, Gilman played an important role in my Upper School years.”

bridges to learning In one extremely visible way, it’s hard to believe that Gilman’s academic coordination is still a bit of an unknown. More than 10 years ago, the schools gained approval from the City of Baltimore to build bridges across both Northern Parkway (between Bryn Mawr and Gilman) and Roland

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Avenue (between RPCS and Gilman). The bridges, completed in 2001, are a visually appealing addition to the neighborhood, particularly the Gilman side of the bridge to Bryn Mawr that features a uniquelydesigned staircase to reach the crossing. The Roland Avenue bridge leaves Gilman near the School’s main entrance and the Headmaster’s house, while the Northern Parkway span departs at the entrance nearest the athletics fields. The bridges are not there for aesthetics, of course. They were built for safety reasons (there was a serious accident involving a Bryn Mawr student a few years earlier) and for simply making it easier to walk between the campuses. From the beginning, they have been mandatory parts of tri-school life; students must use the bridges during their trips to other campuses or face disciplinary consequences. The schools have 15 minutes of “passing time” between classes, enough time to walk all the way from one girls’ school to the other for even the biggest social butterflies. The first coordinated classes began with Bryn Mawr during the 1973–74 school year, a generation before those bridges were built. Just as it was with colleges and universities during the late 1960s, the coed connection was big news. Gilman’s 1974 winter alumni magazine had a photo of Bryn Mawr senior Kathy Martien on the cover; inside, Martien was described as “Gilman’s first cover girl.” (Change had come, perhaps, but political correctness hadn’t quite arrived.) Martien wrote that, even though girls felt like equals most of the time, there were still some “I didn’t think she could do it” looks on boys’ faces when girls solved a difficult math problem or made perceptive comments in French. As usual, change took time. The “tri-school community” so ingrained in the Gilman of today didn’t fully blossom until 1987, when Roland Park joined the coordination effort, seven years after that school moved about a half mile north on Roland Avenue to its new campus, the former Chestnutwood Estate, directly across the road from Gilman.

That sense of community between the three schools was more than just a fortuitous accident of Roland Park’s move to its current location. By the early 1980s, Gilman had firmly made good on its promise and determination to be “a community school,” separate neither from Baltimore nor the outstanding girls’ schools that shared its slice of the city. “Coordination had the unprecedented effect of bringing Gilman boys into contact with girls as peers in the classroom,” Michael Sarbanes ’82 wrote in “Gilman Voices.” Speaking both of a new diversity in the Gilman population, not to mention the Upper School girls who now walked Gilman’s campus, Sarbanes said that, “in some respects, the community school which took shape in the 1970s would have been unrecognizable to a visiting alumnus from an earlier era.”

three times the courses While academic coordination has been a fact of life at Gilman for nearly 40 years, it’s never been as exciting as it is in 2011. Thanks to a variety of courses in disciplines both old and new, Upper School coordination has turned the Gilman curriculum into a virtual college course catalog. Click onto the Upper School class offerings on the Gilman website and you’ll find a 29-page document that requires more than a cursory glance. Sure, most classes for ninth and tenth graders are still set in stone, at all three schools, but that changes quickly by grade 11. Gilman juniors may take either English or history at Bryn Mawr or Roland Park; the Roland Park course selection sheet allows girls to indicate whether they would prefer to take a class at Gilman. Foreign language students may already have taken classes at one of the girls’ schools as early as ninth grade. Bryn Mawr Upper School Head Susan Solberg reminds prospective students that “when making their course selections, Bryn Mawr girls may choose from eight different foreign languages.” The same goes for Gilman boys. Gilman’s Modern Continued on page 26

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Some Gilman alumni may remember when all plays were Shakespearean in that men played womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roles. Today, the coordinate program provides plenty of actors of both genders.

A view of the bridge spanning Northern Parkway. Students must use the bridges or face disciplinary consequences. The coordinate program offers the best of both worlds: single sex education combined with co-education in the junior and senior years.

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Learning about the Chesapeake Bay, Inside and Outside the Classroom

Students in the coordinated Global Environmental Issues class, a second-semester senior elective taught by Upper School academic dean Ned Harris, learned more about the Chesapeake Bay in one April week than most Maryland residents learn in a lifetime. The seniors got that education both inside and outside the classroom from some of the people and organizations at the forefront of environmental policy in the state. Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, a college classmate and friend of Harris, was a special visitor to Carey Hall on April 19. Gansler, who serves as chair of the Environment and Energy Committee for the National Association of Attorneys General, has made the environment a priority in his first two terms in office. He spoke for about 30 minutes about his most important initiatives and then took questions about his role in protecting the environment. As Attorney General, Gansler has conducted an audit of the tributaries that feed the Bay and won significant enforcement victories against polluters. He told the seniors about his work securing the ability for environmental groups to sue polluters in Maryland courts and his efforts to lay the groundwork for the construction of a power

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plant that would convert chicken waste into energy on the Eastern Shore. Two days later, the class set off for the National Aquarium downtown to meet “The Snow Goose,” a 46-foot work boat that took them out into the harbor and the Bay for a day’s worth of experiential education. Students tested water quality, did biological sampling and even trawled for crabs. They also learned about the geography of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and about human impact on the Bay’s ecosystem. The “field” trip was part of the Baltimore Harbor Program run by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Annapolis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to “Saving the Bay.” That organization also has a Gilman connection; CBF President and CEO Will Baker attended Gilman with the Class of 1972. By the end of the week, Harris’s students had learned about the complex relationship between the Bay ecosystem and the economic realities that can stress that ecosystem to its breaking point. Thanks to an important classroom visitor and an important visit to Maryland’s biggest outdoor classroom, they also learned how they and others can influence the Bay’s present and future.

Seniors in the coordinated Global Environmental Issues class learned about the Chesapeake Bay aboard “The Snow Goose,” a 46-foot work boat. Students tested water quality, did biologic sampling and even trawled for crabs.

Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler, standing fifth from left, addressed the Global Environment class at the invitation of teacher Ned Harris, a college classmate. Harris is pictured to Gansler’s right.

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Coordinate class students spent the day on the Inner Harbor and on the Chesapeake Bay.

Languages department offers just French and Spanish, but not to worry. Boys can take Arabic, Chinese or Russian at Roland Park or German at Bryn Mawr. Legendary classics teacher Anton Vishio isn’t just a legend to 45 years of Gilman boys; he also taught plenty of girls who took advantage of Gilman’s tradition of excellence in Latin and Greek. Seniors, in the final preparations for college life, see the most freedom. In the 2010 fall semester alone, there were six English electives at RPCS and four at BMS; in the second semester, Gilman seniors could explore The Bible as Literature at Roland Park or discuss Post-9/11 American Literature at Bryn Mawr. There were nearly as many history, politics and science elective choices at the girls’ schools. Second-semester 12th graders took fractal geometry at RPCS and statistics and data analysis at BMS. Forty students from the three schools took the year-long AP Psychology course in 2010–11. All three schools, of course, maintain the same Upper School academic schedule with four periods of 70-minute classes and

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use the same 10-day cycle with alternating odd/even days and special “bump” classes once every cycle for juniors and seniors. And there’s no need to wait to hear your school’s name during snowstorm coverage; because of the coordination, the three schools make a joint decision on closings and late openings, so Gilman boys can go back to sleep once they hear Bryn Mawr or Roland Park is closed. Not that they’re rooting for that, of course. . . .

the best of both worlds Part of the reason that Gilman students are prepared for coordination comes because, ironically, they didn’t have it when they were younger. The irony is that boys tend to grow faster both academically and socially in the single-sex environment. The Gilman Lower and Middle School curriculums and schedules are very much tailored for boys; plenty of breaks, lots of athletics and other movement activities. Gamper, a Middle School teacher as well as the admissions director, says that Gilman boys often are willing to say and do things that they might not within the unspoken

pressures of a coed classroom. They sing in plays, discuss issues in Talk class and have the chance to go away on bonding trips to Echo Hill in the fifth grade and West Virginia for “Expedition 8.” They become comfortable with themselves. They grow. The Parents Association and the School administration begin to assist when boys reach adolescence, organizing social functions and mixers with both girls and boys from other local schools, including Bryn Mawr and Roland Park. It’s not unusual for one Friday night to including a sixth-grade event at Friends, a seventhgrade party at Bryn Mawr and an eighthgrade mixer at Gilman. By the time they reach the ninth grade, Gilman boys are hopefully ready for Upper School academic challenges. They already understand the tri-school community and how fortunate they are to be part of it, and many of them have already made lifelong friends at the girls’ schools. The bigger adjustment might be for the excellent students who come to Gilman for Upper School from public schools or other independent or parochial schools, coed or not. They have the responsibility of becoming part of a community that may feel foreign to them at first. With few exceptions, the group of both boys and girls at the corner of Northern Parkway and Roland Avenue makes their transition as comfortable as possible. “Within the first week of ninth grade I knew it was where I was meant to be,” says Austin Levitt, the Class of 2010 valedictorian who now attends the University of Pennsylvania. “The students are cordial, polished, compassionate and tolerant. I can name 50 of them who I could end up being friends with for the rest of my life.”

surprise students It’s September 2009, and the small group of boys and girls in Jerry Thornbery’s U.S. History Since 1945 honors class listen closely to a special guest speaker. The boys intently take notes, the girls do the same on laptops. There is a seriousness

of purpose on each of the young faces in the room, and the questions they ask are probing and intelligent. The guest speaker is a woman named Judith Nies, the author of a combination memoir/1960s narrative that the class had read and reported on. She is surprised to see girls in the classroom, since she’s never been to Gilman before. Her book was also the faculty’s summer reading, and Thornbery invited her to Gilman both to speak to his classes and to Upper School assembly. Judith Nies is a metaphor. The stories she tells are about what it used to be like to be a woman, and by association what it meant to be a man. Even in the early 1970s, she couldn’t get a credit card or buy a car without her father or husband co-signing. She was a speechwriter in Congress in the 1960s, but she wasn’t allowed into the House gallery to watch a debate. The boys and girls in the class shake their heads in disbelief. They sit in class together, as equals, in a way that seems normal to them. That wasn’t always the case, and Gilman became even better as soon as it was. Brent McCallister remembered U.S. History Since 1945, too. Her teacher was the legendary Nick Schloeder, then nearing the end of his 49-year career at Gilman. Talking about the first day of that class in her senior year, she said that she “left class that day, and almost every day thereafter, amused, enlightened, and very interested.” To most of us, that’s a full day, and it never would have happened without coordination. McCallister didn’t have the luxury or the safety of the bridges between campuses, and the passing time then was only 12 minutes. The times and buildings change, even at institutions like Gilman. Like most of her classmates, she went on to college and left her single-sex education behind. She and her classmates, not to mention her friends at Gilman and Bryn Mawr, also left behind the unique memory of what it was like to get the chance to go to three schools at once.

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Yanbo Li â&#x20AC;&#x2122;12 and fellow volunteers prepare sandwiches for Our Daily Bread every Wednesday afternoon.

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For Themselves and For Others

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During lunch announcements in February, Gilman second-grader Alex Tendler confidently took the microphone from Lower School Head Leith Herrmann ’64 and told his classmates, through the clever use of homonyms, that they “can” bring in cans for a collection drive. In the end, Alex and his fellow Lower School “Greenhounds” combined community service with ecology when they collected an astounding 326 pounds of aluminum cans. The ensuing recycling of those cans raised nearly $200 for the Bakau Lower Basic School in The Gambia, West Africa, where art teacher Jackie Knipp and science teacher Margaret Olgeirson visited last year (see “Mrs. O. Looks for Green,” page 12). A leader was born that day at lunch, but Tendler is just one of the many students, faculty, staff members and parents committed to Gilman community service duties, both inside and outside the curriculum. “The School takes the issues of access to education for children and food security very seriously,” says Middle School math

teacher Donell Thompson ’91, who also serves as Gilman’s director of community service. “Our goal is to ensure that students not only participate in community service activities but understand the importance of service to the community in their lives and lives of others.”

books aren’t just for reading Early in the 2010–11 school year, Gilman Director of Libraries Cindy Woodruff received word that the 2010 Lower School Read-a-Thon was one of the top five fundraisers in the country for the American Diabetes Association. The boys, grades kindergarten through five, had read a total of more than 4,200 hours and raised nearly $24,000. In 2011, the boys read to support two local autism programs, Kennedy Krieger Institute’s “ROAR” and The Rose of Sharon Equestrian School (ROSES). Two hundred forty-five (out of 304) boys participated, and the total raised was $25,585, with $14,000 designated for ROAR and $11,585 for Roses. Ten years ago, in 2000–01, the entire Read-a-Thon raised $12,726.29; this year,

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the boys effectively raised that amount twice. Over the past decade, the annual Read-a-Thon has raised more than $150,000 to support various nonprofit charitable organizations — mighty big numbers for little guys! “Many faculty members have been instrumental in leading the students in participation,” says resource teacher Lillian Alpert, who chairs the Lower School’s Outreach Committee that coordinates the Read-a-Thon. “Their input, especially that of Jackie Knipp and Margaret Olgeirson, in suggesting procedures to streamline the process has helped make the Read-a-Thon the success we enjoy today.” Although the financial rewards are great, it’s the participation and the number of hours that the boys collectively read that are truly noteworthy. In both participation and hours read, the averages, over the last five years, from 2007 through 2011, work out to 233 boys reading 4,230 hours. Those averages represent about 84% of the Lower School student body, spending an equivalent of 176 days with the printed word. The Read-a-Thon, as well as all of the Lower School Outreach Committee’s work, is fully supported by faculty, staff and, most importantly, parents, who often lend helping hands in organizing various community service activities. The themes of reuse and reading come together in another Lower School project, the Book Swap. The concept is simple — boys bring to school gently-used books that they’ve finished reading, and they may exchange them for books they haven’t read brought in by other boys. The leftovers are donated to charity. This year’s Book Swap, held November 16, collected more than 2,000 books, which were then sent to Baltimore Reads and to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Empathy, understanding and compassion for others through volunteering and service to the community, and the character and the desire to lead, develop best through action. At Gilman, that action starts with even the youngest boys.

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service in the syllabus Gilman teachers look for opportunities to weave service learning together with other disciplines. “One of the School’s long-term goals is to find more areas in the curriculum to seamlessly integrate service learning at age-appropriate levels,” says Thompson. In the Middle School, Thompson and fellow math teacher Shonique Alexander incorporate service learning into the statistics section of their seventh grade Pre-Algebra classes. They ask the boys to first estimate what they think is the prevalence of food insecurity in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, the State of Maryland and the United States. By that, they are referring to the ability of a household to feel confident in feeding family members every day without resorting to emergency food sources or other extraordinary measures. They then provide the students with real data. The classes find the variants, graph them by district and discuss measures of combating the problem. Then the students work to solve it: for six weeks, usually after Spring Break, seventh graders make about 250 lunches per week for the homeless. The boys help make the delivery to Paul’s Place in Southwest Baltimore, seeing first-hand the neighborhood that the shelter services. The boys’ final project is to write their elected officials to tell them what they have done as a class to combat the problem of food insecurity and to ask the lawmakers what they plan to do. Middle School boys are expected to complete 20 hours of community service by the end of eighth grade, and those hours aren’t just devoted to packing lunches. Boys volunteer at Guilford Elementary in Baltimore both during the week and on weekends, helping prepare “academic athletes” for National Academic League competition, much like “It’s Academic” teams on the high school level. The Guilford faculty advisor is Ted Smith ’88. Then there are the programs that simply allow students to brighten someone else’s day. Sixth-grade boys regularly visit

1,4. Middle Schoolers work at First Fruits farm, which grows fruits and vegetables to feed the needy.

3,6. Seventh graders help deliver the lunches for the homeless that they prepared to Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Place in Southwest Baltimore

2,5. Sixth-grade boys pay regular social visits to Pickersgill Retirement Community during the course of the school year.

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Boys complete an orientation program about working with the elderly before their first visits to Pickersgill.

Pickersgill Retirement Community in Towson for social visits. In September, the boys complete an orientation program where they learn about working with the elderly. Each quarter, a group of 20 boys visits Pickersgill each week; all sixth graders participate during the course of the year. During a recent visit, the boys used everyday objects — Twizzlers, toilet paper, aluminum foil and flour tortillas — to make hats. The project encourages the boys and their elderly companions to employ gross motor and cognitive problem-solving skills — and more importantly to laugh!

learning, for themselves and for others Helping others learn, particularly young children, is a key part of any community service project. The learning happens at both sides — mentor and mentee, if you will — of the partnership. History teacher Peter Julius’s Urban Education class explores the challenges of teaching and learning in an urban setting from both theoretical and practical perspectives.

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Gilman students gain “real world” experience through a School partnership with Mary Rodman Elementary School in Baltimore City. In late winter and early spring, Julius’s students receive instruction in tutoring Rodman School pupils in preparation for their upcoming standardized testing. Then, once or twice a week for four weeks, the boys visit Rodman to work with the children in their classrooms. After the tutoring ends, by midMarch, the boys return to the classroom at Gilman to study education policy and politics. The hands-on experience, fresh in their minds, allows them to inform their in-class learning with their observations from a real urban classroom. In the Upper School, as a requirement for graduation, each student must complete a minimum of 50 successive hours of consistent involvement in one community service project outside of Gilman. Outside of school-sponsored programs, Gilman maintains partnerships with more than five dozen local direct service, advocacy and special programs where older boys can choose to perform their community service hours.

service learning in the 21st century Recently, Thompson has taken his efforts to social media, primarily as a way to contact older boys in the place “where they live,” he says. A post to the Gilman School Community Service Facebook page, for instance, included a recipe for meatloaf. The comfort food is regularly served at Christopher Place Employment Academy, a downtown program run by Catholic Charities that provides homeless men with 18 months of transitional housing and supports them with job training, interviewing skills, job placement and assistance in finding permanent homes. The idea is for the boys to make the dinner and then serve and eat the meal with the men in residence. Thompson used the Facebook post to share information about Christopher Place, invite the kids to participate and to distribute his recipe. Although social media may be a newfangled way to spread the word about community service, the heart of the Gilman program remains true to core programs that help those less fortunate. In the current economy, charity drives help meet the needs of numerous citizens, and Gilman plays its part in a variety of ways. The Thanksgiving Food drive collects cans of food for the Donald Bentley Food Pantry, founded by A.J. Julius ’91 and Donald’s mother Ellen in honor of alumnus Donald Bentley ’88, who was murdered during a robbery attempt in Baltimore in 1989. The Lower School contributes to the Bentley Pantry as an ongoing community service project, and history teacher Julius, A.J.’s father, makes the deliveries on its behalf. An annual December holiday drive collects food items, toys and clothing for adults and children to benefit Echo House, a substance abuse treatment facility in Baltimore, and The Ark, a daycare facility for homeless children. The 2010 holiday drive collected more than $4,000 worth of clothing. At the same time, the Upper School also gathered hats, coats, mittens

and scarves for children ages 4–18 for Metro Kidz of Baltimore, a local youth ministry, while the Lower School Student Council spearheads a hats-and-mittens drive, sending the donations to Manna House, a homeless shelter. The Middle School Pre-Algebra students who pack lunches for the homeless are part of a larger Gilman effort. Every Wednesday afternoon, Upper School boys, coordinated by Gi Lee ’11 this past year, pack peanut butter sandwiches for Our Daily Bread through the Lunches for Homeless program, started by retired faculty member Anton Vishio six years ago. In the Lower School, once a month, a different grade arrives at school at 7:30 a.m. to do the same for Manna House. Overall, Gilman community and service learning activities are robust, varied and continual. Several Upper School boys teach baseball skills to students at Ridge Ruxton School through the collaborative League of Dreams, participate in athletics with St. Elizabeth’s School students during Class Day in September and help build houses for Habitat for Humanity in Sandtown. In each division, there are drives to support disaster relief, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia, last year’s earthquake in Haiti and assistance for Japan this spring. The Lower School raised $1500 in two weeks to support Red Cross efforts to provide clean drinking water to earthquake victims there. A strategic goal of the School is to integrate even more service learning into the curriculum, so there are sure to be even more thoughtful and meaningful activities introduced both inside and outside the classroom. Gilman is fortunate to have the kind of leaders with the compassion, work ethic and humility to help make sure others’ dreams can come true. Follow along by searching Facebook for “Gilman School Community Service.”

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New MS Assistant Head Veteran math teacher Alexander to take on administrative role in 2011–12

Middle School Head Peter Kwiterovich ’87 announced the appointment of mathematics faculty member Shonique Alexander to the position of assistant head of the Middle School. She replaces Matt Buck ’93, who leaves Gilman at the end of this school year to become head of the Middle School at Calvert School. “I look forward to working with Shonique as she continues supporting students, faculty and parents in making the Middle School a wonderful place to learn and teach,” says Kwiterovich. Alexander brings varied classroom and administrative experiences to her new position. A seasoned middle grades teacher, Alexander taught at Northeast Middle School before joining the Gilman faculty at the start of the 2004-05 school year. She has also served as director of Gilman’s Middle Grades Partnership with New Song Academy. Alexander holds a bachelor’s degree from Loyola College and two master’s degrees from Goucher College, most recently earning her M.Ed. with a concentration in administration and supervision.

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Best wishes to Buck, a frequent contributor to this magazine, for his steadfast leadership and commitment to Gilman and its boys. “Matt is a valued teacher, colleague, and friend who deeply cares about his students,” says Kwiterovich. “We wish him much success in his new endeavors.”

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Jazz Band Jams Upper School Jazz Band Performs at Regional Ellington Festival

Gilman’s Upper School Jazz Band, under the direction of Cheryl Nkeba, recently performed at the “Essentially Ellington” Eastern Regional Jazz Band Festival at Temple University in Philadelphia. The Jazz Band played three selections at the festival, then separated into workshops by instrument with some of the country’s top jazz musicians and clinicians. An awards ceremony, featuring the Temple Jazz Band, concluded the day. Among the three selections for Gilman was one by Duke Ellington entitled “Harlem Speaks,” with Peter Ahn ’12 on the alto saxophone and Dale Waters ’14 on the guitar. The Gilman Jazz Band explores classic and contemporary Big Band jazz repertoire and ensemble skills. Students enroll in a class that meets twice during the 10-day cycle and attend extra rehearsals as required.

Members of the Jazz Band include: Saxophones: Peter Ahn, Anuj Khandewal, Austin Evans, Matt Waller, Alexander Tzomides; Trumpets: Lucas Hager, Kevin Prewitt, Samuel Im, Jeremy Hairston; Trombones: Christian Kirby, Joey Cahalan; Rhythm Section: Yanbo Li, Wesley Baire, Dale Waters, Andrew Shea, Chad Blackman, Peter Merritt, Mike Handley, Rafay Ahmad, Alex Fang, Robert Vint, Ivan Gramatikov, Roshan Dutta, Galen Rende, Tucker Mitchell.

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Greetings from France

A group of eighth graders visited France over Spring Break, and they blogged about the experience. Relive their time abroad here with words and photos.

march 11, 2011 This is Nick Johnson, on the trip to France with the Gilman eighth grade. We arrived today — Friday, the 11th of March — after two plane rides, on which I obtained two hours of sleep (sorry Mom). We moved into our bedrooms, and reported for a briefing on the day’s activity, with some delicious sandwiches from a nearby food eatery. We toured our base city of Avignon, learning about its long history and its Gothic architecture. We “creatively explored” le Palais des Papes, having fun trying to get to the highest point, which gave me a near terrified feeling. Then I

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remembered I was in France, so nothing bad could happen! We moved onward to the St. Bénézet Bridge where we all joined in a sing-a-long despite looks from the nearby French. This was quite the spectacle, for most of us seemed to be mumbling, laughing or trying to have fun with the lyrics of “Sur la Pont d’Avignon.” Afterward, we moved onto a park where we showed off our true patriotism; eating ice cream, throwing Frisbees and a baseball! We then returned to our hotel where I began to write this entry for myself, but to also to share with you some of our early memories of this trip. — Nick Johnson We arrived in Avignon late this morning after a long eight-hour flight to Paris and a connecting flight to Marseille. After a short rest in our hotel rooms and a lunch of baguette sandwiches we toured the Palais des Papes. The Palais des Papes was, among other things, a cathedral with Gothic architecture, open courtyards and a place

Outside a cafe in Arles made famous by a Vincent van Gogh painting.

Climbing through the streets in the Southern French town of Vaison-laRomaine.

Outside the MusĂŠe du Louvre.

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6 1. Brian Fogelson, Wiley Hopkins and Spencer Morris outside a cafe in Paris.

2. Hyun Yim and David Blomquist inside the bull arena in Arles.

4. Wiley Hopkins atop the Palais des Papes in Avignon.

3. The group in front of the Eiffel Tower.

5. Inside the Théâtre antique d’Orange.

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6. Graham Warnock, Gram Davis, Michael Perry and Todd Iodice atop the Eiffel Tower.

where the Popes ruled in the early 13th century. The tour of the building concluded with a section of the Palais des Papes filled with modern art! Continuing on our tour of Avignon we traveled to the St. Bénézet Bridge. This was a bridge that used to span the Rhône River but now only spans part of the way because of erosion. On the Bridge we sang a traditional song about the Pont D’ Avignon Bridge before departing for the Pope’s gardens. At the Pope’s gardens we had a relaxing afternoon with ice cream, Frisbee tossing and baseball. Now, we’re off to our first French dinner! — Morgan Doyle The arrival into France was fun and exciting, considering we had our own manmade rainbow, courtesy of French military airplanes. When we got to our hotel we discovered that we were located between a castle and carousel! We gladly explored the Palais des Papes and afterward, we enjoyed playing around in a local park. — William Milch

march 12, 2011 After a long day of climbing and sightseeing the perfect place to relax is a chocolate factory! Today we climbed the steep hills of Vaison-la-Romaine, and then each of the travelers loaded the bus to a chocolate factory called “Bernard Castelain.” Being a chocoholic, I was very excited to see what varieties were going to be available. Each student had the privilege of purchasing as much chocolate as he wanted using the money distributed by Mr. Gabbey [Neil, MS language arts faculty] and Mrs. Summers [Amy, MS French faculty]. All of us exited the store with a bag full of chocolate. Although the climbing was tiring, the chocolate provided energy for everyone. — Fateh Tarar After many hours of traveling on a plane and a bus, this was our first official, full day in France. Today, we went to the town of Vaison-la-Romaine. It was very fun and

exciting to see the ruins and remains of a Roman town. The Roman theatre of Orange was also quite intriguing. Following our long, hard day of walking, Mr. Gabbey and Mrs. Summers entertained our need for food by opening the bank and taking us to a chocolate factory. Don’t worry, there’s enough for everybody! — A. J. Hundertmark After eating a buffet-style breakfast at the hotel we hopped on a bus and drove to a museum domus, which is an ancient Roman house. We then had an exciting trip hiking up a large rock face called the Haute-Ville, which included plenty of evidence of historic sites. We ate at a fantastic restaurant for lunch, where I enjoyed a meal of steak and frites. Following lunch, we visited the Triumphal Arch of Orange. In the town of Orange, we also enjoyed testing the sound system of an ancient Roman theatre. In addition to all of these sites, we still managed to go to a very nice chocolate store. Today, Nick J., Graham W., Gram D., David C., Will M., Morgan D. and I gave our Provence presentations (mine was on the domus house). We squeezed as much as possible into our travels today, and we took lots of pictures. Don’t worry, Mom . . . I got some good sleep on the plane and recovered from the jet lag. I also got you, Dad and Haley some good candy. We will be off to dinner soon. — Brian Fogelson

march 13, 2011 Today, in our Avignon adventure, we traveled to the cities of Fontaine and Roussillion. It was a little rainy, but that did not deter us from visiting the huge water spring of the Sorgue River and the unique red rocks of Roussillion. But the highlight of the day was venturing into the massive grotto cave of Le Thor, where we learned about various types of rock and how the caves were formed. We also spent a brief time in pitch blackness, traversing the tunnels while reenacting Gallic-Roman

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School News conflicts in between pictures. Finally, we returned to the hotel to get some rest and prepare for a new day. — Elias Ramos France is awesome, even in the rain! Although some plans had to be changed because of the weather we all still had a great time. Our first stop was at Fontaine de Vaucluse where we took a short hike up to a cave with beautiful and natural Provence scenery all around us. I even thought the rain complimented the scenery, which consisted of cliffs, hundreds of feet high. In town, we stopped in a shop that was filled with tiny clay figurines. The owner was nice enough to give us a guided tour in French that was translated into English by the chaperones. Our next stop took us to the town of Roussillion, which had many small, winding streets that seem typical of Provence. All of the buildings were painted in natural red tones that came directly from the surrounding red rocks. Overall, the trip has been fantastic and I can’t wait to see what is next on our agenda. — Kevin Kuczynski

march 14, 2011 One of the highlights of my day was the Roman Amphitheater in Arles because it was in such good shape. It was easy to imagine it coming alive with spectators watching gladiators and animals fight. Even though parts of the Amphitheater were being restored, we still had almost full access to the ancient site, including climbing down worn stairs to get to the top of a tower with a spectacular view of the city. Looking at things like this Roman Amphitheater in textbooks is just not the same as seeing them in real life. — Michael Perry My highlight of the day was when we had lunch at the Pizzera el Campo. My appetizer was assorted meats that I ate with bread. My main meal consisted of scalloped potatoes and chicken covered in a

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creamy white sauce. The sauce made the buttery potatoes and the juicy chicken taste sweeter. For dessert, I had a marshmallowlike floating “fluff” over cold and creamy custard. This was also very sweet and helped the marshmallow substance melt in my mouth. The combination was just delicious. Luckily, someone did not eat his so I was able to have another serving! — Hyun Yim

march 16, 2011 Our first day in Paris has been awesome. We woke up late (8:00 a.m.!), had a great breakfast and enjoyed some playtime in the Luxembourg Gardens playing Frisbee and baseball. We then had a quick lunch in the food court below the Louvre. Afterward, we toured the museum where we viewed pieces such as the Venus de Milo, the Mona Lisa and the Nike of Samothrace — Goddess of Victory. We saw hundreds of other works, but they were only a fraction of the massive collection. Next we walked to the Place de la Concorde. There we came across a massive golden obelisk. We then ventured to the Cathedral de Madeleine. By then we were all exhausted so we went back to the hotel. I can’t wait for the next two days! — Todd Iodice Today was a great first day in Paris. We woke up and had a wonderful breakfast and headed for the Luxembourg Gardens where I played baseball with a couple of people in our group. We then went to the Louvre where we saw a lot of statues and I got to see the Mona Lisa, which was cool, but smaller than I thought it would be. We are now back in the hotel where we are cleaning up to get ready for dinner and then a boat ride on the Seine. — Hudson Waters Today was jam-packed with fun. First, I woke up and had a great breakfast. Croissants are amazing in Paris! The group then went to the Luxembourg Gardens where we took many pictures of the Palace

that houses the French Senate and the luscious green grass among the flowers and the fountains. We then had the opportunity to play games including Frisbee, hacky-sack and baseball. The group then went to the Louvre where I saw the Mona Lisa, among many other famous paintings and sculptures. We also went to the Jardin des Tuileries and enjoyed the renowned mini-boats traveling across the pond. Place de La Concorde was next on our list of stops, and I enjoyed the atmosphere of rushing cars and bikes. All day, we could see Eiffel Tower in the distance through the mist. All in all, it was a great day in Paris. P.S. – Mom, you’ll be glad to hear I’ve taken almost a thousand pictures! — Spencer Morris

night was over. The food at the restaurant was just as good as the entertainment. Several people were unsure that ordering the escargot was the right idea, but everybody seemed to enjoy it. Then for the main course there was either duck or salmon. I had the duck which was very tasty. For dessert there was a dish similar to baked Alaska or an apple tart. I had the first, which was also very good. After a few more songs by the guitarist, we left and headed back to the hotel for the final time. — David Blomquist

march 17–19, 2011 As the bus came to a complete halt and the doors opened, the fumes of city life and street vendors rushed into our nostrils. “Countez vous,” shouted Mr. Gabbey assertively as we aligned ourselves against the sidewalk. After a counting of 24 heads the group was off, toward Sacre Coeur, one of Paris’s most sacred Roman Catholic churches located at the summit of Montmartre. Although it was raining, when we looked, the view over the southern half of Paris was breathtaking. The glimmering lights enamored us as we put our cameras down, only to stare upon a city not only filled with people, cars and busy avenues, but more a city inspired by art, culture and a sense of never wanting to leave. — Wiley Hopkins The best part of our final day of the French Trip was definitely the dinner. It was Mrs. Morcomb’s [Cathy, MS administrative assistant] birthday, so she got a present from the teachers and some of the students. After, she was serenaded by the guitarist at the restaurant. The guitarist also started playing traditional French songs for us to sing along with. He would serenade Mrs. Morcomb three more times before the

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Alumni

A Poetic Address Muldoon Delivers Mountcastle Lecture

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon turned the 41st annual George E.P. Mountcastle Lecture into a poetry reading, question-and-answer session and, for a few minutes, a chance for audience participation. The assembled juniors and seniors became part of the action when Muldoon read his poem entitled “The Loaf” from his collection “Moy Sand and Gravel,” which won the Pulitzer in 2003. The poem was inspired by his 250-year-old house on the Delaware and Raritan Canal near Princeton University, where he works as a professor of creative writing. Muldoon is also a songwriter, and he read the lyrics of a humorous song entitled “Julius Caesar Was a People Person” as part of his presentation. “I think poetry is a way of making sense of the life of the poet,” he said. “There are other ways to make sense of things, like history, geography or economics, but I think poetry is a way that’s just as telling as any other way.” In addition to the lecture, Muldoon also spent time during the day with Upper School English classes and in the Tickner Writing Center. As a tribute to his day at Gilman, he read his 1977 poem “At Master McGrath’s Grave” about a world-famous Irish greyhound from the 19th century.

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During a question-and-answer session, Muldoon told students that his inspiration comes from many experiences, though he doesn’t always know it at the time. Quoting Robert Frost, one of his favorite poets, he said that putting your best effort into any kind of writing is the key. “If there are no tears in the writer, there will be no tears in the reader,” he said. “The reader won’t have different emotions than you do.” Born in 1951 in Northern Ireland, Muldoon worked as a television arts producer for the BBC for 13 years, writing poetry in his spare time. He came to Princeton in 1987 and currently serves as the Howard G.B. Clark Professor of the Humanities. In 2007, he was appointed Poetry Editor of The New Yorker. He has been described by The New York Times as “the most significant Englishlanguage poet born since the second World War.” In addition to the Pulitzer, he has been a winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and was a Professor of Poetry at Oxford University for five years. The Mountcastle Lecture, established by his family and friends as a memorial to George E.P. Mountcastle ’68, brings a distinguished writer to give a formal address and to spend a day in informal conversations with students and faculty.

Cotton Lecture Jay Davidson ’85 Brings Grand Prix Racing to Gilman

As the chassis from an open-wheel race car sat outside the Alumni Auditorium, Jay Davidson ’85 let the Upper School boys know why they should attend the inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix. He also let them know that they should never let fear keep them from pursuing new opportunities. Davidson, the 2011 Cotton Lecturer, spoke about the process that led him from a job as a corporate attorney to a life as CEO of Baltimore Racing Development. The first Baltimore Grand Prix takes place Labor Day weekend 2011 with five races, including the IndyCar finale on Sunday. “I’m here to tell you that it’s true that when one door closes another one opens,” Davidson said. “We’re all afraid of failure, but that shouldn’t stop us from doing the things we dream about.” Davidson’s childhood dreams had nothing to do with auto racing; he had never been to a race prior to 2009. But the experience convinced him that it would be worth bringing a street race to Baltimore. When his company, U.S. Foodservice, relocated to Chicago that year, he stayed in Baltimore and became an investor in the Grand Prix. This past June, the group signed a five-year deal with the Indy Racing League. A former football player at Princeton, Davidson had briefly worked in sports marketing before attending law school at

George Washington. He first became involved with the Grand Prix effort in 2008 when his wife was working as a graphic designer on the project. The car was also the star of the show; both Middle School and Upper School students crowded around it during the morning to check out the design. Sadly, Davidson didn’t drive the car to Gilman; there was no engine. When there is an engine, the cars will travel at speeds up to 185 miles per hour down Pratt Street in Downtown Baltimore. The objective of the Cotton Lecture is to create a stimulating program to acquaint Gilman students with the various careers that are available to them. Baltimore businessman Henry Kyd Douglas Cotton created an endowment to support the lecture series shortly before his death in 1979. The Cotton Lecture reflects Mr. Cotton’s strong belief in both education and business. Read more about Jay Davidson at www.gilman.edu.

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Alumni

On the Road with Gilman Headmaster John Schmick, accompanied by various faculty members and Alumni Association officers, brought a bit of Gilman to California, New York and Massachusetts. A large group of Los Angeles area alumni joined together at the Beverly Hilton on January 18. Alumni living in and around San Francisco came together on January 20 at the Pacific-Union Club. In April, approximately 50 Gilman alumni and friends attended the annual Boston regional alumni event, hosted by Nikki and Harry Nudelman ’81 at their Commonwealth Avenue home. Nearly 150 Gilman alumni and friends attended the April 11 New York regional alumni event, hosted by Wm. Polk Carey ’48 and Francis J. Carey ’43 at the Racquet & Tennis Club in Manhattan. Freelance photographer Dana Underwood ’92 attended the San Francisco event and blogged about the evening. “One of the best things that happened to me as a child was being sent to Gilman School,” he said. “Outside of my parents, Gilman laid the foundation for my life to this point, and the further I get from my time there, the closer I feel to the place. Maybe I just appreciate it more as I get older. So I was really so excited to attend its San Francisco alumni event.”

1 1. The Class of 1994 held a mini reunion at the New York event. Standing, left to right: John Kim, Michael Ruggles, Charlie (Oh Chul) Kwon, Trey Fitzpatrick, Stewart Kesmodel, Mitchell Whiteman. Seated: Michael Kim, John Vargas, Arif Joshi, John Bond, Dyson Dryden, Boyne Kim. 2. Upper School Spanish faculty member Joe Duncan, far left, Robby Greenfeld ’81, Wade Ware ’92 and Raphael Lee ’92.

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3. Bob Thomas ’76, Matt Baum ’93 and Athletic Director Tim Holley ’77 in Boston. 4. In Los Angeles, the Lucas Brothers — Ben ’97, right, and Andrew ’00 — flank Headmaster John Schmick ’67.

5. Alumni Association Vice President Cheo Hurley ’92 (far left) greets L.A. alumni Danny Green ’89, Drew Bourneuf ’89 and Winston Rigsby ’89.

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In Memoriam

Henry “Hank” M. Worthington ‘48 Gilman Parent, Alumni Association President, Trustee

Gilman School lost one of its most enthusiastic and devoted alumni when Henry “Hank” Worthington died on September 13, 2010. He was 80. Hank was exceptionally devoted and loyal to the School. As expressed by his wife Sallie to classmate Bob Rich, “You know how much Gilman meant to him. He loved his years there and his long association with the School over the years. He was so proud to have our sons and grandsons go there and still go there.” Hank served on the Board of Trustees from 1977 to 1984 and as President of the Alumni Association in 1978–1979. He was an invaluable member of several Trustee committees, in particular Buildings and Grounds, where his expertise and knowledge in construction and care of physical facilities were exceptional. Hank attended Princeton for two years before transferring to Hopkins. The death of his father forced him to leave school to take over running the family business. Hank could be seen regularly on Gilman’s campus inspecting facilities and, especially, watching interscholastic athletic

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teams, in particular those on which his sons Ned ’78 and John ’81 and his grandsons Ned ’06, Arthur ’09 and Linn ’11 played. He was an excellent baseball player and golfer himself while at Gilman. He relived his playing days through watching his sons’ and grandsons’ extensive participation. Hank also loved wildlife and the outdoors, and he loved to shoot game as well as skeet. In fact, during his Princeton years he qualified for the U.S. Olympic skeet team. His skill and competence were remarkable in the way he continued to pursue these activities in spite of his physical impairment. At age 29, Hank became partially paralyzed in his right and leg, suffering polio-like symptoms that persisted for the rest of his life. The cause was not polio and never diagnosed, according to his son Ned. Hank Worthington was also active in the affairs of the larger community, especially State political campaigns involving candidates in whom he especially believed and wanted to support. He was instrumental in the successful election of alumni C.A. Porter Hopkins ’48

and Jervis Finney ’49 to the Maryland Legislature in the 1950s and 1960s. Hank also was a gifted craftsman and carpenter. “I will never forget one summer when I was trying to build a small barn for some ponies and horses,” says Redmond C.S. Finney ’47. “Hank not only designed the structure but also took charge of its construction. In spite of his physical disability, he measured and cut and sawed, and even climbed on the roof to nail plywood and shingles.” Hank Worthington’s wonderful family and many, many additional acquaintances and admirers will miss him greatly. He was a most caring and outgoing friend to so many, and his love for and devotion to his exceptional family were unparalleled. “The Worthington home on Garrison Forest Road was like a little Gilman satellite,” remembers Bob Rich. “A phone call to Hank was always answered by his booming greeting and his insistent proffer of hospitality. Many a Gilmanite had their thirst quenched and appetite appeased at Hank and Sallie’s home.”

Sallie, his lovely wife of 52 years continually stood by him so staunchly and unselfishly. She was always helping him along in her quiet way, doing her best to assist him to help himself. She also made a practice of reading to him every night. “Hank will long be remembered,” says Bob Rich. “We benefited by his care, concern and work on behalf of Gilman School and its alumni.” Hank will be greatly missed, but his steadfast loyalty, lively spirit, and never failing enthusiasm will live on. Hank Worthington is survived by his wife Sallie G. (nee Hurst) Worthington; children Edward H. Worthington, III, John H. Worthington and Jean W. Cross; grandchildren Edward, IV, Arthur and Linn Worthington, John, Jr. and Augusta Worthington and Thomas and William Cross. Many thanks to Redmond C.S. Finney and Robert L. Rich for contributing to this memorial.

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In Memoriam

Michael Lloyd Eisenzopf December 3, 1958– December 28, 2010

The Gilman community lost one of its longtime employees with the passing of Michael Lloyd Eisenzopf on December 28, 2010. He was a 30-year employee of Gilman’s Buildings and Grounds department. Mike, 52, died at home after a two-year battle with cancer. Mike started working at Gilman School in 1980 in the Housekeeping department, when he was just 22 years old. Later, as a member of the maintenance crew, he worked in tandem with his buddy, carpenter Curtis Meador. Mike was also the campus key master, and he would cheerfully search his magic bucket of possible replacement keys for a filing cabinet or rekey an office door when all else failed. Mike was always on task and on time, and he worked hard and to perfection. Befitting of his quiet manner, he kept behind the scenes, always smiling and always in good mood. He was very dedicated to Gilman. “He had a great knowledge and understanding of the entire facility,” says Marc Hoffman, superintendent of

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buildings and grounds and Mike’s supervisor since 1996. “Mike was a hardworking, nice guy, who had a great sense of humor. He was humble, very well liked and truly an honorable and respected man. It’s just not the same around here without Mike.” Mike’s work ethic did not go unnoticed. He was named maintenance supervisor shortly before his diagnosis. In his free time, Mike enjoyed working with his hands, updating and improving his home and owning many cars, including antiques. A longtime resident of Glen Burnie, Mike and his longtime friend, Richard Decker, pooled their resources and moved to Pennsylvania in 2003. Richard was Mike’s primary caregiver at the time of his illness. He is survived by his mother, Florene A. Chance; twin sister Leslie Brewer; sister Susan Pistorio; two brothers-in-law; niece Brittany Brewer and nephew Alex Pistorio; and stepfather Robert G. Chance.

In Memoriam

Gilman remembers those alumni who have died in recent months. May they rest in peace.

Dr. Edward H. Richardson, Jr. ’30 Mr. Bernard C. Boykin ’39 Mr. Arthur C. Powell ’39 Mr. Russell L. Law, Jr. ’42 Mr. Gerald Atterbury ’43 Mr. Walter J. Bienemann ’61

Deaths reported to Gilman between October 30, 2010, and May 17, 2011.

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Athletics

Winter Sports Review For the high school or collegiate student-athlete, winning four conference championships in a row represents a unique accomplishment. A pair of Gilman winter squads won their fourth in a row this February, sending their senior athletes off with the ultimate winning experience. The swim team’s fourth straight championship also represented the end of one era and the beginning of another: the squad will move up to the MIAA “A” Conference in 2011–12 after dominating the “B” conference for the last four years. Head coach Ian Brooks believes that this year’s strong junior class will allow the Greyhounds to be an immediate factor in the five-team “A” group that also includes Loyola, Calvert Hall, McDonogh and Mt. St. Joseph. In the meantime, Brooks’s team finished with 401 points to outdistance Archbishop Spalding by nearly 200 points in the 2011 “B” meet. Gilman swimmers finished first in eight of 11 races contested, including each of the three relays. Two of those winning relays, the 200 medley and the 400 freestyle, set school records and featured the same foursome of juniors Robbie Schuetz, Michael Morrow and Jack Pollack and sophomore

Muhammad Hudhud. Schuetz also won two individual races, the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyles. Since squash became an MIAA sport in 2007, Gilman hasn’t lost a conference match. The Greyhounds’ 7-0 win over Boys’ Latin in the conference title match in February not only extended that streak but gave Gilman its fourth straight league title. Individually, senior Taylor Tutrone had the same streak, never losing an MIAA match while playing the No. 1 spot in each of his four years. Tutrone, one of the top-ranked junior players in the United States, and fellow senior David Hoffman had the top two spots in the rotation for their entire careers. The 2011 championship match was held in front of a large crowd at the Meadow Mill Athletic Club. Six of the seven matches were 3-0 sweeps for Greyhound players. The indoor track team runs its championship meet every year for a trophy named after its longtime coach, legendary Gilman teacher and mentor Johnnie Foreman. In 2011, for the first time since

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the trophy was named for Foreman, the Greyhounds were meet winners. Their 151 points in the MIAA championship meet were 51 points better than second-place Mt. St. Joseph. Gilman athletes won five of the 12 individual events in the championship meet. Peter Merritt, a junior, won the 800 meters on the track and then the high jump by clearing 5 feet, 8 inches, on the first attempt. Senior Chris Watson’s time of 1:07.05 in the 500 meters was a meet record in that event. Distance standout Will Meadows, a junior, won the 3,200 meters with a time of 9:59.30, while classmate Michael Kane cleared 12 feet, six inches to win the pole vault. The 1600-meter relay squad also was a winner for Gilman, which looked to win its third straight outdoor league title in May. Varsity basketball couldn’t quite repeat the magic of last season’s division championship but still reached the “B” Conference playoffs before falling to St. Vincent Pallotti in a quarterfinal game. Gilman finished 12-19 overall but the

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record was deceiving; eight of the Greyhounds’ losses came by five points or fewer, including a late-season loss at the buzzer to eventual conference champion Glenelg Country School. Gilman had two of the top players in the conference in juniors Ryan Ripken and Cyrus Jones, each of whom is also a star player in another sport (Ripken in baseball and Jones in football) and each of whom will return in 2011–12 as the leaders of the hoops squad. Varsity wrestling won a conference match over rival Calvert Hall and finished in 12th place at the MIAA championship meet, which features teams from both “A” and “B” conference schools. Senior Cal Riorda had a strong season; he reached the consolation final at 145 pounds in the championship meet. A pair of wins over Boys’ Latin and a victory over Loyola propelled the varsity ice hockey team into the league playoffs, where the Greyhounds fell to St. Paul’s in a close game in the quarterfinals.

The varsity squash team has never lost a conference match.

David Cha ‘13 placed 5th in the Sports: Athletes in Action category in the 2011 Jostens Photo Contest with this photo of Daniel Yue ’12 running the 4x200 relay.

Swimming, “B” Conference champions four straight years, moves up to “A” conference next year.

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Cyrus Jones (left) and Ryan Ripken starred for the varsity basketball team in 2010â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11. Wrestling defeated Calvert Hall and again hosted the Haswell M. Franklin â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50 Gilman Duals

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Coaching Update smith

Athletic director Tim Holley ’77 recently announced head coaching changes for the water polo and wrestling teams for the 2011–12 season. Vaughan Smith, an Olympic swimmer in 1988 and a former collegiate water polo coach, has been named Gilman’s varsity water polo coach. Smith succeeds Laura Coffman, who will remain with the team as an assistant coach. Bryn Holmes, a national prep champion in wrestling at McDonogh and an All-American faceoff specialist in lacrosse at Maryland, has been named the head coach of Gilman’s varsity wrestling team. Holmes, the 2010–11 Cooper Teaching Fellow, teaches in Gilman’s Middle School. Smith, who assisted with Gilman’s water polo and swim teams this past year, was most recently the men’s and women’s water polo coach at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa. He also has been the boys’ water polo coach at The Latin School of Chicago. As an athlete, Coach Smith’s accomplishments are varied and prodigious. He was a swimmer for the 1988 Zimbabwean Olympic Team that competed in Seoul, South Korea. He is a 1991 graduate of the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was a standout swimmer; he was inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003. Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree in kinesiology from UIC. Swimming was just one of a handful of sports in which Smith excelled. In 1987, he was the MVP of the International Youth

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Water Polo Tournament in Berlin. That same year, he was a member of International Rugby Tour teams in Northern Ireland and Wales. Along with his new duties as head water polo coach, Smith will continue to assist with the swim team and with the Mariners Swim Club based at Gilman. Holmes, a 2006 McDonogh graduate, was a team captain for the varsity football, wrestling and lacrosse teams as a senior. He was named the Baltimore Sun 2006 All-Metro Athlete of the Year and a first-team All-Metro and all-state pick in all three sports in 2006. As a wrestler, Holmes finished with an impressive 162–19 prep record, including a school-record 114 wins by pin. He was a national prep champion in the 152-lb. weight class in both 2005 and 2006 and the MIAA and state champion in that weight class in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He then played in 62 games as a faceoff specialist and short-stick midfielder for a Maryland lacrosse team that reached the the NCAA tournament in each of his four years. Holmes, who won better than 55 percent of his faceoff attempts in his four years, was a team captain for the 2010 Terrapins. He graduated from College Park in 2010 with a degree in communications. An assistant coach for the Gilman wrestling program in 2010–11, Holmes will take over the head coaching position from Henry Franklin ’87, who will remain with the program as an assistant coach. Franklin was Gilman’s varsity head coach for nine seasons.

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Taylor Tutrone never lost an MIAA match while playing the No. 1 spot in each of his four years. He will play for Princeton next season.

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Athletics

Squashing the Competition Gilman’s varsity squash team makes it mark at home and beyond.

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On a cold mid-winter day at Yale University, the Gilman varsity squash team won a hard-fought 5-2 decision against Westminster School to earn a top-seven finish in the US Squash High School Team Championships. Seven Gilman boys, five of whom were seniors, happily piled back into the van for the long drive back to Baltimore. Their counterparts from Westminster had a shorter drive home, about an hour. At the top of their bucolic 230-acre campus sits the Kohn Squash Pavilion — eight international courts with separate balconies and a central viewing gallery that one professional player has called “one of the finest squash facilities in the world.” The 2010–11 Gilman squash team was one of the best sports teams the School has ever assembled, more than worthy of competing against the other 15 best teams in the country. Yet it had little in common with any of those teams. Most of them are boarding schools, such as Westminster or Brunswick School, which Gilman also nearly beat. The eventual national champion and Gilman’s

quarterfinal opponent, Episcopal Academy from Philadelphia, has 10 glass-walled courts on campus and an alumnus who won the national collegiate championship in 2011. “These teams have their own courts. We don’t have them,” says Boo Smith ’70, Gilman’s coach. “Squash has been bred into those communities for a long time. They regularly send their best players to the top colleges.” For the first time in the short history of the squash program, Gilman can say the same thing about its best players. Seniors Taylor Tutrone and David Hoffman, the top two in Gilman’s lineup for four years, will both play for Princeton next season. The Tigers are perennially among the top three finishers at the national championships. Last fall, Jay Brooks ’10 made the team at Harvard as a freshman despite learning the game just four years ago. Tutrone, Hoffman and Michael East ’13 also happened to be three of the top 10 ranked high school squash players in 2010–11, stunning for a team that’s only been in existence since 1998 and uses the

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Athletics The 2010–11 Gilman varsity squash team: Front Row (left to right): Grant Lounsbury ’13, Michael East ‘13, Taylor Tutrone ‘11, Henry Schmidt ‘14, Jakob Metz ‘11. Back Row: Coach Boo Smith ’70, David Hoffman ‘11, Peter Dewire ‘12, Harrison Ebeling ‘12, Daniel Hoffman ‘11, Will Hanley ‘11.

courts at Meadow Mill Athletic Club, not exactly at the top of Gilman’s driveway. “It’s been a good four years,” Hoffman said after the Greyhounds beat Boys’ Latin to clinch their fourth straight conference title in February. “Our school has been fortunate to have a ton of good squash players at the same place at the same time.” Though Gilman’s squash team began competition 13 years ago, squash didn’t become an official MIAA sport until 2007–08, the freshman year of Tutrone, Hoffman and fellow seniors Daniel Hoffman (David’s twin brother),Will Hanley and Jakob Metz. Thanks to that star-studded lineup, the Greyhounds never lost a league contest during their careers. In 2010–11, Gilman won 83 of the 84 individual matches it played in MIAA competition (each team match features seven individual matches). After sweeping Boys’ Latin 7-0 to win the 2010-11 team championship, Gilman returned to Meadow Mill the next week and swept the individual titles, beginning with Tutrone at No. 1 and finishing with Daniel Hoffman at No. 7.

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Gilman’s dominance of its MIAA competition (McDonogh, Boys’ Latin, Friends, St. Paul’s, Park and Loyola) was to be expected. Its performance at the national team tournament was more surprising. Competing in the “Boys’ I” draw, the top 16 in the country, Gilman beat Germantown Friends School 6-1 in the opening round. Episcopal Academy was too much in the next round, but not for Tutrone and Hoffman, who both won. Tutrone won three of four matches in the No. 1 spot at the tournament, while Hoffman won all four of his matches at No. 2. “Their results at nationals just show the caliber of players that they are and the amount of work they’ve put into their game to be that competitive,” Smith says about his top two players. Squash is a racquet sport featuring two players inside a four-walled court, but any comparisons to racquetball end there. The small court and low-bouncing ball makes scoring points difficult, and the ball can be played to all four corners of the court. The racquet is whip-like with a long

handle and small head and requires finesse as well as power. As a result, rallies tend to be long, requiring the kind of physical fitness seen in tennis players and other elite athletes. Countries such as Egypt, England, Malaysia and Pakistan produce the world’s best professional players. The United States has “caught up” in recent years thanks to its adoption of international rules; for many years, Americans played the game with a harder ball and larger court, leading to quicker points. While Gilman doesn’t have on-campus courts or a 100-year tradition, the squash team does benefit from its off-campus agreement at Meadow Mill, in the Woodberry neighborhood by the Jones Falls Expressway about three miles from Gilman. The club features 14 courts and four squash professionals; players like Tutrone and Hoffman honed their skills there outside of their time playing for the Gilman squash team. Squash began at Gilman in 1998 under the tutelage of music teacher David Doherty, who left to become academic

dean at Boys’ Latin in 2006. Smith, the Upper School’s assistant dean of students and an art history teacher, has worked with the team either as head coach or assistant coach since its beginning, and the level of play has consistently improved. Hoffman, Tutrone and Brooks may be Gilman’s first to reach the highest collegiate levels, but they aren’t the only Gilman graduates to have played in college. Both Max Dalury ’06 and Zach Bradley ’06 played at Tufts, while Galen Carroll ’08 played at Middlebury. The School also has junior varsity and middle school squash teams, so the next dominant group of players may be just around the corner. Next year, East and Peter Dewire ’12 will lead a rebuilding squad that hopes to continue its conference winning streak and win another MIAA championship. Gilman squash, in just its second decade, has already taken a prominent place in the School’s tradition of athletic champions. In 2010–11, the Greyhound seven took that success to even greater heights.

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Development

Scholarship to Support Passion for Science Timothy P. Lekin Scholarship For Science Achievement Established By Family

The family and friends of Timothy P. Lekin ’91 have established a science scholarship fund in his memory at Gilman. Tim’s father Jim Lekin, his wife Katie Ryan Lekin and their families, including Tim’s birth mother Linda Gray, pledged $100,000. Numerous contributions were received when Tim died, and those monies have been added to the scholarship fund corpus. In addition, an anonymous donor generously matched the Lekin’s pledge with a gift of $100,000. The Tim Lekin Science Scholarship will provide financial support to Middle and Upper School students with an interest in and passion for the sciences who also demonstrate academic ability in the sciences. Financial need will also be a factor. “Our intent in focusing on the traditional sciences — to also include math by the way — is to recognize Tim’s strong view, especially as he matured, that the U.S. will not continue to be a world force if we do not encourage our young people to excel in the science fields,” says father Jim Lekin. “Tim always said that Gilman gave him a solid base for his future endeavors

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and successes. As a youngster Tim was always curious. He kept that quality his whole life; he was forever learning.” “Our hope is that this science scholarship will help students who are like Tim. They may be late bloomers, as Tim was, but they will have a certain spark and will demonstrate the potential to succeed,” he elaborated. “Tim was working with me at M.S. Willett when he died. He was ‘the idea guy,’ the strategic planner, and the one who was forecasting the next steps for the company to take in order to survive in these tough economic times. Tim soon would have been the next CEO of Willett, and he would have done a magnificent job. His death was a terrible personal loss, but it was also a loss to our community.” Walter Gonzales ’91, Tim’s classmate and long-time friend, commented in the 2009 “Gilman Bulletin,” “Tim was fearless. He was always the first person to dive off a cliff, start down a trail or get his line in the water. I admired him for his adventurous spirit. I was lucky enough to live with Tim throughout college in Vermont and he

was always a good friend. When we used to go hiking he would give a walking lecture on all the trees and plants and why they were important to the area. He always taught me something new and interesting. But, what I remember most was that Tim was always there to help celebrate successes and to give me a hand when I was down. We all lost a good friend.” Tim’s sister Jeanne (RPCS ’93) reinforced Walter’s feelings. “There is such a void in my life without Tim, and many of his friends have told me they feel the same. Tim had such compassion for everyone; he just had a big heart. He could make you laugh when you were down; he would give you a hug when you needed one. More important, he would help you solve your problems.” Tim died on November 26, 2008, the day before Thanksgiving. He was 35 years old. He was the victim of a homicide. Both of the responsible parties pled guilty and are in prison. Tim was born on May 15, 1973, in Williamsburg, Va. After graduating from Gilman in 1991, he attended the University

of Vermont, earning a bachelor’s degree in forest biology. From 1999 to 2006, he worked as a biomedical scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, following a year working at the University of California, Berkeley. When he worked at Livermore Lab, Tim co-authored numerous articles on protein crystallization screening and mycobacterium tuberculosis for scientific publications and was the co-author of three patents and one pending patent on crystallization screening. Tim is survived by his parents and other family members — Jeanne Lekin Nash, Mark and Michael Ryan, Oscar Ryan, Emma Kate Nash, Chase Ryan, David James Nash and Brooke Ryan. For more information on the scholarship fund or to contribute, please contact M. Kate Ratcliffe, director of development, at 410-323-7176.

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Development

Supporting Each Other and Gilman Faculty and Staff Contribute to The Gilman Fund

Under the leadership of faculty member Ryan Carey and staff member Carol Schuch, the second year of an effort to encourage Gilman employees to participate in the School’s annual giving effort is proving as successful as the first. To date, faculty and staff have contributed approximately $28,000 in gifts and pledges to The Gilman Fund. “Gilman exists as a community of co-workers, and in fact we are truly a family of extremely talented people who share those talents on a daily basis,” Carey and Schuch wrote to their colleagues early in the school year. “Whether as a teacher, an administrator, or a staff member, we all work together towards the common goal of maintaining Gilman’s excellence.” For Carey, supporting this effort is an expression of respect for his colleagues. “My gratitude for being able to work in this nurturing familial environment leads me to support The Gilman Fund as a demonstrable way to show that I honor my fellow community members’ dedication to Gilman’s mission of educating boys,” he says.

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The Gilman Fund does more than simply pay the bills and help to keep tuition cost down. The Gilman Fund provides additional revenue for faculty salaries and sabbaticals, professional development, and helps to fund the tremendous academic and athletic programs that Gilman offers its boys each day. “I see giving to The Gilman Fund as a way to contribute to and support each other and the institution as a whole,” adds Schuch, the athletics administrative assistant. “In a very specific way, supporting The Gilman Fund honors the commitment we each make to every Gilman boy.”

Class of 1961 50th Reunion September 30–October 1

Perhaps they won’t wear white graduation jackets when they return to Gilman this fall, but there is no doubt the Class of 1961 will flock back to Roland Avenue for its milestone reunion. The Reunion Committee plans a full schedule of events flanking the weekend on both sides, including dinner Thursday evening for those traveling from outside of Baltimore, events at Gilman on Friday, the reunion party Saturday evening and a Sunday brunch. A special reunion booklet will commemorate the occasion. Members of the Reunion Committee include Henry H. Hopkins, Chair, Rick Born, Steve Cordi, Carl Cummings, Sam Dell, Jim Garrett, Bill Hardy, Ed Muhlenfeld, Tom O’Neill, Mac Passano, John Snead, T Tall, Harry Swope and Butch West. Henry Hopkins and Ed Muhlenfeld are co-chairing the 50th Reunion Class Gift Effort. Classmates will receive complete details and registration information in late summer. Watch your mail!

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1943 Syd King syd.king9@gmail.com Thanks for your responses to my request for updates on your current activities. The responses have been varied and interesting. On balance, I’d say we’re getting along pretty well. Frank Carey writes “Never retire!”, though he nearly did when he turned 80, five years ago. “I have an office in a separate building at home, with an executive assistant (never say secretary) five mornings a week. Busier than ever before.” His wife Bitsy died 13 years ago, but his five children and 10 grandkids are most attentive and fun, he says. He comes to Baltimore for board meetings of the Maryland Historical Society and goes to New York for board meetings of W.P. Carey & Co., where he worked for 20 years after practicing law in Philadelphia for 40 years. In contrast, David Ridgely says he and Betty still enjoy the pleasures of living on their Eastern Shore farm. Betty is a gardener and Dave plays tennis twice a week. He reports that they are in “relatively good” health, which seems to sum it up for most of us. I could have written this entire column about Bob Bonnell, but I have to settle on just a shortened version of his recent activities. Six years ago, Bobby and Barbara moved into one of the three “cottages” located on the campus of Roland Park Place, a popular high-rise retirement community built on the former grounds of the Roland Park Country School. Baltimore Magazine did an extensive article, with pictures, about Bob and Barbara’s lifestyle in retirement. Bob still plays golf virtually every day and records every swing of his club, as he has always done. Meanwhile, Barbara is into yoga and aerobics. They both support the arts and still travel extensively, including an annual trip to Paris. The Maryland State Senate recently honored Bob for his “outstanding and dedicated service to the students of the Baltimore City Public Schools.’’ He had worked long and hard to create a $300,000 scholarship program for needy students in the City school system. David Mock is the former classmate whom I see most often, because we are both members of The Wednesday Club, a men’s luncheon club that hosts guest speakers on the first and third Wednesdays of each month at the Maryland Club. Dave continues to volunteer with Meals on Wheels twice a week, and tutors a city child through the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, of which he is treasurer. He plays tennis “poorly” two or three times a week and really enjoys it! He says he is lucky to have a daughter and three grandchildren living in his neighborhood, as well as three brothers-in-law, a sister-in-law and uncounted nieces and nephews scattered about nearby. Dave goes to Phoenix with the Johns Hopkins Baseball team in March, and summer finds him at Squam Lake for a week or so. Bill Rienhoff writes that he and Gracie are doing “reasonably well” down on the Eastern Shore and that they still come to Baltimore to see family and friends

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“and doctors.” He reports that they still have several boats, and he also does some waterfowl hunting. Jim Price and Laurie Hooper, both of whom left Gilman to attend boarding school for their high school years, each dropped me a note and made the point that they still have a very close feeling for the class and keep in touch with many of our members. Jim notes that he was shocked to see the long list of deceased class members, but then noted that, after all, we have lived through World War II and Korea, and it’s rather amazing how many are still walking around, or “vertical,” as Walter Dandy likes to put it. Jim and his wife Midge moved into the area’s most popular retirement complex, Blakehurst, located on Joppa Road in Towson, but from early May to late October they hold forth in Ocean Ridge, Fla. A nice balance! Jim’s association with Alex. Brown & Sons ended after almost 50 years when it became part of Deutsche Bank. He is now associated with Vanns Spices, Ltd., which he and his brother Doug (Gilman ’47) took control of three years ago. He notes that nepotism has since raised its head, and his daughter and her husband are now running things. Coincidently, there was a feature story in the Sunday Baltimore Sun (December 30, 2010) about Vanns and a few other small, local manufacturing companies that are thriving while some big corporations are closing shop or leaving Baltimore. Laurie included with his letter a photocopy of the picture taken on our “back porch” on October 22, 1993, when 26 of us got together to celebrate our 50th Reunion. Ten of those in the picture are gone now. Laurie and Dicky moved, a few years ago, into a fabulous retirement complex near Sarasota, Fla., which Ann and I once visited. It’s fantastic! He reports that their greatest challenge is deciding which of the many interesting opportunities they’ll try on any given day. It’s a tough life, but they’re stuck with it. Donald Symington reports that he is now a member of a very non-exclusive, and ever-growing, group of classmates who experience that feeling of wonderment when they begin to speak a planned sentence, only to find they can’t find the words to finish it. For most of us, that’s just plain frustrating. For Donald, it marks the end of a career as an actor. As he says, there is no way he can learn lines and remember them now. That’s a very sad thing indeed. I enjoyed phone calls from D.C. Finney and Walter Dandy, but I’m sworn to secrecy about D.C.’s revelations concerning classmates on whom he has operated. D.C. and Jean now live at Brightwood retirement community, near the old Valley Inn, as do Richard Thomas and Mary. Walter and Anne Allen live at Broadmead, yet another retirement complex. Finally, we see Charles Wagandt and Mary Jo from time to time, and I can report that Charles is doing 9 to 5 every day, in his continuing restoration of Oella. Mary Jo is working on bringing opera back to Baltimore after the demise of our local company in 2009. Your Secretary and bride Ann celebrated our 60th anniversary last October and continue to live, very happily, at Elkridge Estates, located at the northern terminus of Roland Avenue, just minutes away from the Gilman campus. Ann has permission to create gardens

George B. Franke ‘42 “Bissell and Franke toted the pigskin to the Cadet four; from which point Big George plunged over. Still another score was made in the first quarter, and after two goal-line defenses by the Gilmanites, the score was 14 to 0 at the half. . . . In the final frame two more touchdowns were recorded by virtue of Franke’s plunging and passing. . . .” (Cynosure, 1941 McDonogh game, 29-0 Gilman) With the death of George Bernard Franke ’42 — “Big George” — on September 19, 2010, Gilman lost one of its best all-around athletes. A standout in football, ice hockey, baseball and basketball, he won the William Cabell Bruce, Jr. Athletic Prize (awarded to Gilman’s top athlete) three years in a row, in 1940, 1941 and 1942. To this day, though others have won the Bruce prize twice, no one other than George has done so three times. “Big George” was just that — big in stature for his time and big in personality in any era. Owen Daly II ’43, who played on the offensive line with George, remembers him as tall and strong, measuring in at about 190 pounds to Daly’s 155. George was a formidable presence on the football field, a standout ball carrier and primary scorer who was, without a doubt, the main offensive threat to any opposing defense. “Franke, Franke, Franke and Moore provided the scoring power . . . The Gilmanites had advanced the ball to their own 40, and on the next play, Franke took the ball through left guard, reversed his field, and, shaking off several tacklers, dashed 60 yards for a touchdown.” (Cynosure, 1940 McDonogh game, 25-0 Gilman) “The combination of his size and speed allowed him to blast through and devastate most opposing teams,” wrote D. Randall Bierne ’43 in “Gilman Voices.” Recognized as the outstanding prep school back in Maryland, George made the All-State Team in 1940 and 1941, the same years in which he contributed to two consecutive Maryland Scholastic Association (MSA) championships for Gilman. “We would not have been a champion if it hadn’t been for George,” says Daly. He lettered all four years in football and was team captain for two. He took to the ice in hockey for three years; in their day, he and teammates Charlie Plitt, George Westerlind, Tyler Campbell and others dominated Baltimore hockey. When the start of World War II caused the School to disband the hockey team, George joined the varsity basketball squad. He played catcher for four years of varsity baseball, and was also a team captain. According to the 1941 Cynosure, George was also a force at bat: “ . . . A bevy of sluggers is hoped for this year. George Franke should lead the parade by terrorizing opposing flingers.” His peer team captains elected him president of the Athletic Association in his senior year. He also received the Alumni Baseball Cup and the Hoffman Hockey Trophy during his time at Gilman.

His senior Cynosure entry also corroborates his big personality: “George is always ready for a good time, and his pungent wit has been the life of many a party.” He carried these traits throughout his life. “He had a great sense of humor — he got that from his Irish mother,” recalls his nephew Phil Franke ’69. “He was one of these guys who could hold court and keep people laughing.” Franke played football at Princeton for one year before enlisting in the Army during World War II. He served as part of the 630th Field Army Battalion as a first lieutenant and field artillery unit commander from August 23, 1943 through January 1, 1946. He earned decorations for his service, including the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one service star for his time in France as well as the World War II Victory and American Defense medals. After the war, George returned home to Baltimore and joined the family business, The George Franke & Sons Company, then one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of Christmas ornaments. He worked closely with his brother, Edward P. Franke, Jr. ’38, who became president of the firm in 1951 after taking over from their father. George’s grandfather and namesake founded the company in 1868, bringing the art of making Christmas decorations from Germany to Baltimore. Franke & Sons specialized in handpainted glass ornaments in the German tradition and also produced tinsel garland, icicles, cotton tree skirts and other decorative items. At one time, the company produced more than 40 million Christmas decorations a year. The business was sold in 1969; George remained with the company until it finally closed its doors for good, retiring around 1980. Ever the athlete, he remained an avid golfer and squash player in his retirement. George is survived by his daughter J. Garrison Franke, granddaughter Daisy Horreau as well as nieces and nephews and their families.

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Stanford Morris Touchstone ‘48 Lt. Colonel, USA (Ret.)

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Stanford Morris Touchstone was born on July 22, 1929, and was raised at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Stan’s father, F. Morris Touchstone, was the Army lacrosse coach for 29 years (winning three national championships). Stan graduated from Gilman in 1948, and then attended the Military Academy Prep School. In the summer of 1949, Stan entered West Point, becoming part of C Company, 2nd Regiment. Among his many achievements was his selection to the 1953 All-American Lacrosse Team. It was Stan’s life’s ambition to attend West Point and become a career officer. In June 1953, he achieved his goal and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Army. Stan retired from active duty May 1, 1974, and received the Army Commendation Medal for meritorious service from June 2, 1953 to April 30, 1974. During his military career, he continued to take advantage of additional education opportunities, obtaining a master’s degree in physical recreation education from Purdue University and attending various service schools such as the Army Ranger Training School and the Army Staff College. Stan’s duty assignments were often of a classified, special services nature. We know that he served a tour in Germany (where he met a school teacher, Patricia Fanning, whom he later married), two tours in Viet Nam and served as an instructor at West Point and the ROTC program at Rutgers University. During his military service, Stan received many awards including: Bronze Star Medal with one oak leaf cluster; Air Medal with number four; Army Occupation Medal; National Defense Service Medal with one bronze service star; Viet Nam Service Medal with one bronze service star; Combat Infantry Badge 1st Award; Ranger Tab; Republic of Viet Nam Campaign Ribbon with device, known as the “1960 bar.” Stan died March 11, 2010, at Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., and was buried in the Cadet Cemetery at West Point, joining his wife Patricia, infant son, Stan Jr., and his parents. Stan’s sister, his daughter and son have been most helpful in providing this information. Stan will be missed. His life exemplified all that is good, and lived by the Academy’s motto of Duty, Honor, Country.

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wherever she wishes, and the apartments and grounds are meticulously maintained by a willing staff. Our children and grandchildren joined together to surprise us with their installation of two inscribed, commemorative bricks at the entrance to the Central Maryland Chapter of the American Red Cross, in recognition of each of our long associations with this organization. I first became a Red Cross volunteer in 1960 and I continue to be one still. My two most important contributions to this chapter were my recruiting an outstanding chapter manager, who still holds that job 19 years later, and my establishing in Baltimore the headquarters of the Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center. This operation, over the past 20 years, has helped thousands of individuals in the United States find family members whom they had thought dead after they were separated, sometimes for as long as 60 years or more. My other Red Cross involvement is as a blood donor. By the time you read these notes, I will have enthusiastically donated 16 gallons, or 128 pints, over the years. I recommend this to anyone who wants to feel good. Ann has also been a donor, and she worked as a volunteer on the mobile blood drives which visit worksites to collect donations. In addition, she has planned and hosted events for both the chapter and national Red Cross, including a dinner for the national Board of Trustees at the Baltimore Museum of Art when the annual convention was held in Baltimore a few years ago. That’s all, folks! Thanks again for your support, and I’ll be back next year.

1945 John G. Wharton On Thursday, October 28, 2010, our class had its annual fall lunch at the Valley Inn. In attendance were our stalwarts: Pinky Hoen, John Herndon, Humpy Stump, Dick Wolfe, Andy Thomas and Jack Warren. During the past year, we have lost two of our wonderful classmates, Idy Iglehart and Teddy Mower. Our troops are getting a little thin. John Herndon still resides at Blakehurst and also still plays tennis despite his bad knee. Humpy Stump has his farm but spends most of his time with his wife at a long-term medical facility in Mt. Washington. Andy Thomas recounted a wonderful trip that he had in the early 1950s to Havana to visit our classmate Ricardo Repilado, who showed Andy the best of Havana and Cuba. Dick Wolfe kept us up to speed as to a number of matters, including car race tracks in Atlanta and elsewhere. Pinky Hoen still hunts quail on his Baltimore County farm and continues rifle and pistol target practice there as well, which once in a while produces an inquiry from a Baltimore County policeman who

leaves the scene knowing that all is well and nothing will be changed. Pinky also hunts quail in Florida in February. He has a decided limp but gets around very well. Bill Neill had both of his hips replaced this past year and is fully recovered. He talked several months ago with Fenner Goldsborough, who resides in the northern part of Michigan. Bill recounted some of his younger days at the Valley Inn when the bar was placed in the front room, not at its present location. I, Jack Wharton, continue part-time, sometimes more than anticipated, at the same law firm which has put up with me for the past 57 years. My wife and I spend about six months in Florida, and I play golf about three times a week without getting any better. Our classmates seem to be in reasonably good health but move about with more trepidation. Because of the slow service at the Valley Inn, it was determined that our next lunch would be elsewhere, probably at Tark’s Grill at Greenspring Station. Bill Neill will make appropriate arrangements, for which we all express our appreciation.

1946 Warren A. Magruder Our sympathy goes out to Shirley Hooper and family upon the loss of our classmate Joe Hooper. Magruder, Murray, Landin and Edens continue to see each other regularly. Cammie Slack can be contacted at Blakehurst. Bo Kelly has been, and continues to be, seen at Gilman following the activities of grandchildren George ’09, Kevin ’10, Robby ’12, Henry ’12, Luke ’13 and Woody ’17. Your secretary is proud to report catching (by himself in his 24-ft. boat) a 70-pound black drum off Gibson Island.

1948 Bob Rich bojohbf@verizon.net Our classmates and their wives gathered December 9 for our annual Christmas luncheon at the Maryland Club, hosted by Bill Passano. Among the attendees were Dan Baker, Mac Cromwell, Dick Donley, Guy Hollyday, Sandy Newlin, Bill Passano, Phil Powell, John Strickland, George Thomsen, Holland Wilmer and Bob Rich. At the end of the luncheon, we observed a moment of silence on the passing of classmates Hank Worthington, who for many years organized and held together our class, and Stan Touchstone. John Strickland suggested we obtain a class listing from the alumni office to include e-mail addresses. This will be done, although we are not all Internet accessible. The possibility of a summer reunion was discussed and will be explored further.

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Congratulations to Mac Cromwell, whose prowess at the bridge table has earned him the title and distinction of Silver Life Master. Guy Hollyday, in addition to monitoring Baltimore streams for chemicals, provides volunteer services to an addictions clinic in Baltimore City. Cynthia and Manning Parsons missed our luncheon while cruising the Adriatic Sea and exploring the coast of Dalmatia onboard the ship MV Artemis. The weather in Europe and our East Coast delayed their return by several days. The extended time was passed, most comfortably, in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. Gough Thompson writes, “As to news, both Irene and I are very busy. Irene is a family therapist and adjunct professor at the California School of Psychology, has a private practice and is a volunteer for refugee families facing problems in getting settled here in San Diego. In addition to her work, she is a very active grandmother to her grandchildren located in Puerto Rico and Rumson, N.J., where she is a frequent visitor. I sometimes join her for family visits as well. Most of my children, Winn, Dan, Tom and grandchildren reside in the New York-to-Wilmington region. Daughter Lydia lives in San Diego and Betsey in Boston. “I launched a new desalination company, Norte Sur Agua, in Mexico, where I am an active chairman. We are developing the largest desalination project in the Americas at Rosario Beach, Mexico, 20 miles south of San Diego. The plant will eventually provide 100 million gallons of water per day for northern Baja California and Otay Water District in San Diego. We expect to start construction of the water plant in 2011 and to be in operation in 2013 selling water to both sides of the border. Norte Sur Agua is the lead sponsor/developer for the Rosario project, with Consolidated Water Grand Cayman as co-developer and Doosan from Korea as plant designer and builder. “I became interested in desalination as a very practical system of providing water to Saudi Arabia as business consultant to GE and Hyundai in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Both provided desalination systems to the Government of Saudi Arabia. The largest desalination plants are located in Saudi Arabia, and that country’s water problems are now solved. “I hope to get to Baltimore in the near future to visit you and others from our Gilman class. All are welcome to visit me here in San Diego. My telephone is 619-742-1590, e-mail gwtjr4242@aol.com.” Jim Sparkman was unable to attend the December class lunch, but filled us in on a few snippets of his life. Two marriages ended in divorce and he has been single since 1996. He has one son Jamie living in California, with whom he communicates daily. Jim resides in Manchester, Vt.; he was sole proprietor of a small country real estate office. He said he has been heavily involved for more than 20 years attempting to keep his tiny mountain village from being overrun by factory outlet stores. In 1996, Jim was nominated a Giraffe for “sticking his neck out.” He said he is in good health, still retains his Gilman weight (not the hair), but has an ongoing balance and walking problem which semi-restricts travel.

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“I lead a very parsimonious, quiet and ultra-conservative lifestyle, but it agrees with me,” he says. “My young second-floor tenant Stacy and son were in the Springfield, Mass., area for the weekend, but called daily to remind about taking my medications (e.g., Plavix). “I have a modest three-bedroom, two-bath Cape Cod on a dead end road with lovely mountain views, abutting a 10-acre meadow, and I love it. “If any classmates read the Gilman ’48 news and are traveling in New England, it would be fun to catch up. My phone number is 802-362-3720.”

1949 Jay Cooper j.cooper@wellingtonshields.com What could be more fitting than to begin the Class of ’49 Notes with an update from Bob Cooper, our master of ceremonies at the 60th Anniversary Class Dinner in October ’09! Bob celebrated his 80th with wife Marty in Reno, Nev., in October. Their first round at the gaming tables was quite successful, but in the end they gave back everything that they had won. Damn!! Nonetheless, there was the uplift of living in the ting-a-ling atmosphere of the casinos and a side visit to Virginia City, the notorious silver mining, gunslinging town about a half hour south of Reno. Bob was impressed with the faithfully restored condition of the city, and wouldn’t discourage a visit by any of us who are inclined to delve more deeply into the lore of the Golden West. Our world traveler Cy Horine keeps on parlaying his friendship with a mysterious capitalist into more trips abroad, this time to Scandinavia. And there’s another European trip in prospect this spring — itinerary to be announced later. Cy continues to stay active on the lacrosse circuit, attending dinners and various events. What better city than our hometown to stay current with the developments and the new stars in the game that Baltimore practically invented! Alec Jenkins made his usual Thanksgiving trip back to the East Coast, but we missed hooking up, as your correspondent was attending a conference in Germany at the time. As many of us may know, Alec is married to the former Carroll Pearre, sister of Skip Pearre (Gilman ’74) and Ted Pearre (Gilman ’76), so Alec and Carroll’s East Coast destination is always Baltimore. We find Alec to be in his usual good-spirited frame of mind — enthusiastic about the new/old California Governor Jerry Brown (“understands the unique California culture better than his predecessor”), and the new Gov is also a promoter of solar energy, a deep professional interest of Alec’s by virtue of his 30 years of service as a key executive in the California Energy Commission. Q.: “Will America make it in solar?” Alec: “From the bottom up, not the other way.” In September Bill Brewster and wife Dorothea had an interesting tour of Holland, Belgium and Berlin, Germany with another couple, focusing on medical facilities and new cancer treatment techniques. Bill says

his eyes were opened to “what you can do today in relation to only a very few years ago.” Come to think of it, this could be a helpful new approach for a lot of us in our age group. But the Brewsters travel for fun, too, and are scheduled for an April trip to Wales, where neither of them has set foot before, even Dorothea, who is a native of England. Furthermore, back in the U.S., the Brewsters have a wealth of varied vacation spots all in the family, with their daughters Page and Lisa, respectively, owning a ranch in Wyoming and a second home (under construction) in Jacksonville, Fla. Last but not least, the senior Brewsters still have their own summer home in Michigan, and this year enjoyed it more than ever, because for the first time they flew out there and back. That eliminated the grueling 13-hour drive that they’ve endured every year heretofore. Long time no see, no hear! Charlie Humpstone reports that he is happily retired in South Windsor, Vt. He’s just marked his 80th birthday (party forthcoming), and is in good health except for an arthritic knee which forced him to give up skiing. Since then, he’s taken up writing with a vengeance. Two books (fiction) already finished and a third on the way. Finding an agent is proving to be a challenge, but that seems to be a given in the literary field. As we both talked away, sketching in a few details about our past lives, I realized why we had lost touch — Charlie departed Gilman at the end of his Third Form year, went on to boarding School at Putney, and thence to Harvard undergraduate (Class of ’53) and Harvard Law. Clearly we missed one here, for the honor of a Harvard bid was granted to a very few in the Class of ’49. Last year was crowded with change for Your Correspondent — gave up consulting at Loeb Partners Corp. after 18 years there, returned to the fold as an institutional investment analyst specializing in the solar industry with the firm of Wellington Shields & Co. (also in New York), searched for, found and bought a new condo apartment in upper Manhattan, took a superb trip with wife Eleanor to London, Denmark and Germany’s Lake Constance and signed up for Medicare as the year ended. The last was the toughest job of all. Thank God we don’t have to do that again!

1950 Haswell Franklin The highlight of the year for our class was the celebration of the 60th Reunion of our graduation over Homecoming Weekend, October 15 and 16. Out of the 26 surviving members of our class, 20 were able to attend. We were particularly pleased to have as our guests Jean and Reddy Finney ’47. I am happy to advise that John Schmick ’67, the School’s current Headmaster, has accepted my invitation for him and his wife to join us when we celebrate our 65th anniversary, although it is still almost five years away. The most significant news that I can report is that both Bartow Van Ness and Carroll Waters have been located. Bartow lives on the Eastern Shore and advises

that he has not been west of the Chesapeake for over 10 years. Carroll lives in Burnham, Pa., where he found a country girl after his fourth divorce, and they have four children, three girls and a boy. Unfortunately, Fletcher Lowe was unable to join us at our reunion dinner since he was moving that day, but he did advise that he and his wife Mary Fran have now moved into an Episcopal-Presbyterian retirement community in Richmond. Thanks to the efforts of Bill Jarrett and Charlie Brown, we continue to have regular class luncheons every three or four months at the Hopkins Club where we exchange “war stories.” I would be remiss if, before closing, I do not thank Bill, Charlie and John Boynton for their help in promoting our 60th Reunion. My biggest disappointment was not being able to persuade Bruce Lloyd and Fletcher to join us that weekend. Hopefully, when the 65th Reunion celebration arrives, they will be able to do so. I remind you that the acutaries are limiting the number of us who will still be here that weekend. Baldy and Bruce Turnbull have already notified me that they plan to attend. Hopefully, all of you will make every effort to do likewise.

1951 Robert Swindell bbncc@verizon.net Once again, travel and grandchildren seem to keep us occupied. Several of you even took the time to drop me a line. Wish more of you were in the correspondence mood. Gibby Carey is hard at work putting together a trip with his extended family — all four children and spouses (spice?) and eight grandchildren — to France next summer. That will mark AK and his 55th wedding anniversary. Congratulations, in advance. Bingy Moore writes that he is suffering from ARAP (Age Related Aches & Pains), a new self-proclaimed illness. He also states that we are living proof that only the good die young. Are you being bad, Bingy? Rollin Otto and Lucy are doing well — summering in Ocean City and enjoying their grandchildren’s successes. Their oldest graduates from Virginia Tech this year — with others at Stevenson, Virginia Tech and Drew Universities. Rich Diffenderffer, our most itinerant class member, wrote that he was headed to London with the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry to meet with Prince Andrew. He was to be billeted at the Royal Tank Battalion barracks and get involved with other quasi-military activities. Impressive, Captain. We were able to have dinner with Lonnie and Henry King, together with Sandy and Grif Morrel, last fall. Last year the Kings spent time in Egypt, and they are headed to South Africa this winter. Visits with children and grandkids are still high on their agenda.

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The Morrels are planning their annual European trip with a grandchild. Said they might have to double up this year. Is Virginia Beach in Europe? We have at least one member in perfect shape. Lew Barker reports that he passed his annual biking target of 5K miles and promised to reach 5151 in honor of our great class. It’ll also give him something to brag about. Henderson Dorsey drifts in and out of Baltimore, but doesn’t seem to contact any of his classmates. Give us a call, Doc. Had a long phone conversation with Tom Calloway last fall. He is in good health and lives near his daughter and grandchildren in California. Marion and Steve Knipp spend time volunteering — Meals on Wheels, CARES and the Visitor Center at the Inner Harbor. They also returned to Morocco and Marrakesh, where they spent their honeymoon many moons ago. Steve also mentioned a seven-day trip (three of them black tie) aboard the Queen Mary, where he let out several inches on his tux trousers. After hearing recently about accidents on several cruises, that doesn’t qualify as a real catastrophe. Tom Parr writes that he is healthy and happy in retirement, while Bill Merrick is apparently happier still working in the Lower School. I guess he has finally reached his proper grade level. Nancy and I keep busy with all the grandchildren, two of whom are now at Gilman in their freshman year. I keep somewhat busy tutoring (cheerleading is probably more accurate) at Roland Park Public.

1952 Bruce Follmer bf0629@verizon.net Well, I suppose I should start off by thanking true-blue Bill Blue, who has been very kind about sending in what little info he has to report most years. He writes this year to say that he’s very pleased that his grandson, Robert G. Jr., is a member of the sixth grade in the Middle School this year. He mentions that he now has four other grandchildren in college, with one attending Boston College, one at the University of South Carolina and two at UVA. The other classmate heard from, though not with any news, was Bill Trippe. He does say hi to all you “old” ’52 graduates and informs us that all is well in South Carolina. Thanks to both of you. Since that was it from our garrulous class, I decided to try something new. Henceforth, I shall try to interview one or two classmates by phone each issue (the ones who don’t usually respond. My God, that’s almost every one of you!) and report what’s new with them. This time I started with Dr. Bill Grove. Most of you know he lives in York, Pa., his old hometown. He went to Cornell, where he expected to get an engineering degree, but decided after one year that engineering wasn’t his thing. The military was breathing down his

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neck, so he joined the Air Force and was trained in the medical field. He found that was to his liking and went on to Temple for his next degree, ending up as an ophthalmologist. He took up practice in his hometown. He retired in 1999. He married, and he and Joanne had two daughters, one living nearby today, and the other in Nashville. Unfortunately, Joanne passed away with throat cancer in 2006. He has one granddaughter, now 9 years old. Bill says his health has been fine with the exception of a lymphoma he developed a few years ago. Chemo has taken care of the problem, apparently. He says he and Joanne did a fair amount of travelling to foreign countries over the years, so he gets great pleasure now in traveling around the U.S. He made it to our 50th in 2002, you may remember, and I hope he is expecting to make it to the 60th. His feeling for Gilman is very warm, and he has enjoyed watching the way Gilman has grown in so many ways over the years, particularly the wide variety of courses and extracurricular activities that are being offered now that weren’t available to us. Dick Gatchell lets us know that his daughter Mimi and her husband Jared are both teachers in Abu Dhabi, where they live with their two children. After 52 years, Dick is still in residential real estate. “It has been and is a great ride.” Peggy and Chipper Hoff sold their condo and moved to “Homewood at Crumland Farms,” a retirement community with multi-level care, in Frederick, Md. “We still have digs in South Carolina,” he writes, “and we spend most of our time there for now.” Your Secretary continues to plod along, doing a little theatre now and then. I’m scheduled in May to direct a play, which takes place in an insane asylum, so I’ll feel right at home. The rest of my offspring still dabble in community choir or theatre, and my 13-year-old granddaughter spent much of her time in Chicago this summer as one of the hosts of a juvenile cooking show on the local PBS station (over 800 kids tried out!). Other than that I have been constructing Sunday crossword puzzles, which I dutifully keep sending in to The New York Times, and which they dutifully reject, but one of these days. . . .

1953 Tom Perkins tpperkins@earthlink.net Glory be! These are the first 1953 notes published in this journal in more than a decade! Wedding bells. John Seiler, our best golfer and only published poet, was recently wed to the fair Harriet in Louisville. Having remarried six years ago myself (and moved to New York), I appreciate this event perhaps more than most of you. Now, who is next? Many of us are still hard at work. Franklin Eck, CEO of American Lubrication Equipment, recently travelled to China to help improve the U.S. trade balance. Bill Myers moved Myers Financial Consulting

The Class of 1955 celebrates its 55th Reunion last October at the elegant home of Helen and Frank Bonsal.

to Indio, Calif., and he now resides in Fresno. Tom Firor was reelected County Surveyor for Pendleton County, W. Va. He may be destined to become the longest serving public official in his adopted state. George Urban continues doctoring. And, perhaps best of all, Tony Carey, after a long and distinguished career at Venable, opened his own law firm as a named partner of Shelton & Carey with offices in One Charles Center. Driving down Cathedral Street, please note the Anthony M. Carey Building at the Baltimore School for the Arts, dedicated in grateful recognition of his long and productive service to that remarkable institution. Now I am sure many others are hard at work. Please let me know. I am only an e-mail away. For those who are retired, I recommend Talbott Huey’s docent tours at the Hampton Mansion in Towson. Talbott retired as a China and Oriental specialist at Michigan State University and is in residence on W. Lake Avenue. On the Gilman front, I gather that Rod Ortel, Charlie Mitchell, Ben Proctor and Fred Klaunberg are regulars at alumni functions, along with our favorite professor emeritus, Cary Woodward. Please join these stalwarts. Here in New York, Harry Thomas and I are also regulars at local Gilman functions. Best of all, our 60th is on the way. The class’s chief opera buff, Warren Buckler, out in Indiana, has appointed himself Grand Marshal of our next reunion. Eddie Dunn is waiting for his phone to ring. Don’t worry about me. I am chairing the reunion gift for my 55th in New Haven and will try not to bother you.

Please send me news to make this column lively. I am saddened to note that Gilman reports that 25 classmates are no longer with us, but the rest of us are still going strong.

1954 Ralph L. DeGroff, Jr. rld2002@att.net John Sherwood has in recent years been volunteering at the United States Naval Institute in Annapolis. Part of his efforts have been preparing a paper documenting U.S. Navy activities in Arctic exploration from the 1850s to the 1950s. Some photos from John’s paper can be viewed at www.usni.org/heritage/slideshows/polar-exploration. And, of course, John continues to race sailboats with good results on the Chesapeake Bay and in Nantucket where he spends a part of his summers. In 2002 a group of board members of the Nantucket Golf Club were brainstorming ideas as to how they and their members could give back to the Nantucket community. Multiple ideas were offered up “but nothing seemed to fit until Bob Greenhill (a board member) said the magic word that stuck: “Children.” It was then that the Nantucket Golf Club Foundation was born, and over the past eight years it has raised almost $11 million in scholarship and grant money. The story of this remarkable effort was the subject of a major article in the August 26, 2010, issue of The Inquirer and Mirror, the local Nantucket newspaper. (Thanks to John Sherwood for sending me this information.)

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Carl Seitz was scheduled to give a presentation on the early papermakers in Baltimore County including Carl’s ancestor, William Hoffman of Hoffmanville, Md. The talk was to take place on March 16, 2011. (I wrote this column in January and perhaps next year will be able to provide more detail.) Remak Ramsay, actor, artist and art collector, wrote an article entitled “A Gift to Monhegan Island from Remak Ramsay” for the August 2011 issue of American Art Review. Remak has spent his summers on Monhegan ever since he was invited there years ago by fellow actor Jamie du Pont, a cousin of Phyllis Wyeth (Jamie Wyeth’s wife). The purpose of the invitation was for a reading of the Noel Coward play, “Fallen Angels,” with Tammy Grimes and Victoria Boothby. The reading was a huge success, and Remak has returned to the island ever since. In 1998, the Monhegan Museum expanded its physical plant, and Remak made his first gifts of art that he had purchased in prior years to the Museum. Monhegan is a car-less oval island a mile and half long by three quarters of a mile wide located 12 miles off the coast of Maine. Last summer the Museum featured 53 works of art that Remak had donated to the Museum through the years. (Thanks to Charlie O’Donovan for the issue of American Art Review.) On November 5, 2010, Larry Wagner gave away his daughter, Bunny, to Bob Huber. The ceremony was held in Marathon, Fla., in the Florida Keys where Deedee and Larry spend most of their time. In a conversation with a Dutch ancestral friend of mine who owns a life insurance agency, I asked if by some chance he knew Dave Woods, CLU, ChFC, LUTCH, former president of the LIFE Foundation and CEO of NAIFA. The gentleman’s eyes lit up as he proceeded to tell me that everyone in the life insurance industry knew Dave Woods. He continued to tell me that Dave was one of the truly most impressive people in the insurance world contributing more than anyone else in the industry. Wow, was your Class Secretary impressed. Dave gives monthly presentations on The Wealth Channel, which you can view on your computer at http://www.thewealthchannel.org/pages/From-the-Deskof-DavidWoods/. Also very impressive! McRae Williams, M.D., retired in the fall of 2009. He notes that he is very much enjoying his retirement. Wife Ruthie just retired from teaching Upper School Math at Gilman (June 2011). They have two granddaughters, ages 5 and 8, the younger at Redeemer and the older at Bryn Mawr. Asked about what he does in his spare time, McRae responded, “I have no spare time. Remember the first iteration of Parkinson’s Law, ‘Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.’ ” Tom Burdette, Harris Jones, Charlie O’Donovan and your Class Secretary can be seen from time to time on the links trying to master the Scots’ game. Unfortunately, there has been no telephone communication to any member of the foursome from the Champions Tour, or at least not yet. Reverend Dr. Jim Cox believes he is currently supporting the medical community and providing his doctors the means with which to live a very comfortable life. However, Jim is hopeful that he will soon be back

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on the golf course breaking 80. (Your Class Secretary was unaware that in our Gilman days Jim had a 1 or 2 handicap.) On occasion Jim can still be seen on Sunday mornings at the pulpit preaching the gospel. Gus Widhelm continues his enthusiastic interest in Gilman School’s activities. Recently, Gus and wife Lee, having read about the sale of the Valley Inn, stopped by and had lunch with owner Bud Hatfield and reminisced about years gone by. On September 25, 2010, your Class Secretary, on behalf of the DeGroff Family, received the Alice B. Kenney Award from the New Netherland Institute in Albany, N.Y. This award is given to those people who have made a significant contribution to colonial Dutch studies and have encouraged understanding of the significance of the Dutch experience in America. Most of the credit for the Award belongs to the father of your Class Secretary. It is interesting to note that the best seller by Russell Shorto, “The Island at the Center of the World,” was the indirect result of the efforts of the DeGroff family. Tom Gorski, director of technology at Gilman, once again expressed his enthusiastic appreciation for our support of The Class of 1954 Classroom and Technology Fund. In the past year, income from the Fund allowed for the installation of Wi-Fi access for Upper School students who bring their personal computers to the School. In addition, income from the Fund has been used to train members of the faculty in the use of a new instructional technology Gilman is installing.

1956 F. Meriwether (Mert) Fowlkes, Jr. fmfowlkes@aol.com Greetings, ’56ers, from your new Class Secretary! Many thanks to Dave Eaton for his years of service in this role; I hope I can do as well. The year 2010 was the time for most of us to celebrate our 50th college reunions, and it seems that many of us did so. I used to think that only old people reached that point! George Boynton reported that he enjoyed being with Cotton Fite and Roggie Dankmeyer in June at the Williams gathering. Cotton lives in Wilmette, Ill., and continues his ministry, with a focus on missionary work in the Middle East. Roggie is retired and lives in San Mateo, Calif., where he enjoys lots of golf and tennis, and I hear he’s pretty good at both! George also talked to Ralph (Merrill) Lincoln, who lives in New Castle, N.H., but spends a lot of his time sailing in the Cape Cod area. Ralph has recently served as commodore of his yacht club there. Howard Stick enjoyed his 50th reunion at Yale in June where he caught up with Pete Folger and Sandy Dugan. Howard reminded me that our class sent more students to Yale than to Princeton for the first time in Gilman history. He and I (with wives) spent a very relaxing week together in Jamaica in December. After the Yale reunion, Pete also celebrated his 50th wedding

anniversary, and he did so by taking his entire family (14!) on a cruise to Bermuda, where they all had a great time, and he even learned to ride a Segway! He lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Bob Stone is now a retired physician living in Wilson, N.C., and he is justifiably proud that all four of his sons also went into the field of medicine. Bob’s father was a physician in Baltimore, I recall. Bruzz Jory reports that he is comfortably settled in Eugene, Ore., where he has been for many years, and he enjoys a good life without all of the “bells and whistles!” He keeps up with Victor Bridgman and Spencer Everett. Tom Carroll and his wife recently enjoyed a cruise through the Eastern Mediterranean, and he saw many sights that he remembered studying about in the ancient history course he took with Mr. Baldwin. What a memory! I continue to enjoy being in Richmond with my two children and two grandchildren living nearby, and my antique car hobby keeps me out of trouble! Please send in those cards and letters so that next time I’ll have even more exciting news to publish.

1957 George Barker geebark@aol.com As most of the members of Gilman’s Class of 1957 approach the 50th anniversary of their graduation from college, it is clear that a high degree of energy and activity courses through their collective veins. Frank Deford continues to distinguish himself as an author and as a sports commentator. Frank has published a new book entitled “Bliss, Remembered.” It is a novel about the 1936 Olympics, the Nazis and World War II. The principal character is an American woman named Sydney Stringfellow. Frank provides this insight into the book: “. . . I’ve written it as a woman in love. It’s chick lit, and I had a lot of fun being a woman for a while.” One reviewer said this about the book: “This is one of those books that you won’t want to put down. Such a fantastic story woven into historical events of the ’30s and ’40s in the U.S. and abroad. I am drawn to books relating to Olympic history and WWII history, and this book lives up to its billing as a historical fiction novel. The captivating story was definitely enriched by Deford’s thorough research.” In August 2010, Frank talked about the book at the Enoch Pratt Free Library as part of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Princeton Alumni Association of Maryland. Here is part of what the press release of the library had to say about Frank’s appearance: “Frank Deford is senior contributing writer for Sports Illustrated, commentator for National Public Radio and correspondent for “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel” on HBO. He is the author of 16 books, including the bestseller “Alex: The Life of a Child.” Deford is a member of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame and a

six-time winner of the Sportswriter of the Year Award. He has won a Peabody, an Emmy and countless other awards. Frank Deford served as chairman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for 16 years and remains chairman emeritus. Born in Baltimore, he now lives in Connecticut.” Harvey Clapp provides us with anecdotal information indicating the esteem in which Frank is held in his role as a sports commentator. “Ann and I attended an affair honoring Pam Shriver’s 25th and last tennis tournament for various charities. Frank Deford was the keynote speaker. He gave his usual moving and humorous kudos to Pam. When the other tennis greats present spoke, it seemed they were praising Frank almost as much as Pam. They all mentioned that Frank was very special to them, that not only was he a multi-award winning writer, but that he was an early and ardent supporter of women’s tennis. Chrissy, Martina, Billie Jean and others spoke highly of Frank. When Pam spoke, she even gave a plug for Frank’s newest book. Carol stayed home helping with Christian’s two-month-old-daughter, Annabel.” Annabel is Carol’s and Frank’s first grandchild. No grass is growing under the feet of Harvey Clapp, as the following shows: “[A]m still shuttling between Baltimore and St. Croix, enjoying the best of both worlds. My most exciting news is the birth of my second grandchild, Jackson Rowland Clapp, born a big baby on February 10, 2010, the day of Baltimore’s biggest blizzard in a while. I may attend the Super Bowl with proud father David Clapp ’87 in the sky box of Malone Mitchell III.” “I may also be selling our oil and gas operations in Turkey, but keeping an affiliated company in the windmill and construction business. “Ann and I spent an enjoyable two months in Europe this summer, starting with [a] wedding in London, then Paris, Jordan and Turkey. In Jordan, in addition to normal sights, we visited a Deerfield roommate, Eric Widmer, who had established the King’s Academy, a coed boarding school modeled on Deerfield. “I have become a little more active in my new venture, a computer assisted bar review Course known as ThemisBar.com, which is competing with my old partner/monopoly, BAR/BRI. “BAR/BRI’s owner, Thomson Reuters, recently decided to auction off BAR/BRI and buy a large Indian legal outsourcing firm. I would like to think Themis scared them with a better method of teaching than the conventional straight lectures with no interaction. “The practice of law has changed some since I left Venable 25 years ago. I would hate to be a lawyer graduating from law school today (unless I spoke fluent Mandarin). “I am usually in St. Croix from November through May, and I would be delighted to entertain any classmates venturing in the neighborhood.” Joyce and Eddie Brown were in attendance at the discussion at the Enoch Pratt of “Bliss, Remembered.” Eddie continues to hold forth as a vice president of Investment Counselors of Maryland and to pursue vigorously in Baltimore, South Carolina and elsewhere his interest in the grand old game of golf.

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Nick Adams is retired and spends at least seven months of the year in Vero Beach, Fla., and, in Nick’s words, “I love it here.” Nick continues, “[A]m expecting my first grandchild this month [January 2011], a granddaughter, and my son, Nick Adams IV, the expectant father and also a Gilman graduate, lives in Coral Gables, Fla., only three hours away so I am looking forward to this event. . . .” Nick resides during the other five months of the year in Baltimore where he spends three to four hours a day researching stocks, observing that “it always was more of a hobby than a job for me.” From Concord in Massachusetts, Walter Birge provides this update on his zealous pursuit of traveling to exotic places: “After Antarctica three years ago and the high arctic [Svalbard, Iceland and Greenland] two years ago, I traveled down the Aleutian Islands chain to Kamchatka by small ship. Lots of fun and not too much seasickness. Hooray for the ‘Patch’!” From Greenwich in adjoining Connecticut, Peter Ness reports that he and his wife Cricket “so enjoyed the [50th] reunion and hope for another at Camden Yards.” Peter, a rabid Orioles fan through thick and thin, adds that it gets lonely being the only man in Greenwich wearing an Oriole cap. Millard Firebaugh continues to be a perpetualmotion machine, highlighting his year 2010 as follows: “I continue in a part-time position as Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor at University of Maryland, College Park, and to consult in technical matters associated with naval systems and alternative energy. Interspersed with the work, my wife Barbara and I do a bit of traveling. We departed for Chile as soon as BWI started functioning after the first and before the second of last year’s February snowstorms for a ten-day trip to the Atacama Desert in northern Chile along with winery visits near Santiago. We left Chile just a few days before the earthquake. The trip with the Chilean company Explora included a walk to the top of a mountain called Cerro Toco at 18,385 feet. In June we went to Wales for a walking tour with Country Walkers. This was our fifth tour with Country Walkers spread over the last 10 years or so. We have always enjoyed these excursions. In July we went to Rehoboth with our children, their spouses and our four grandchildren. In September we were off to Idaho and Oregon with some of Barbara’s family. We spent several days in central Oregon including a visit to Crater Lake. Then in early December we got in a week of golf at Marco Island. I often see my grandchildren which is a blessing. Genya and Sam Hopkins and Barbara and I stay in pretty close touch. In the time that’s left after all of this activity I try to play as much golf as I can. So far, so good.” Faithful reporter Frank Gluck gives an update of his doings in Nashville and elsewhere and provides some thoughtful reflections on life in general: “Life continues to be good for Judy and me. I think you are aware that I gave up all patient care 18 months ago. Although I loved what I did throughout my career, it has been relaxing not to have all the responsibilities that go with the territory. I have been fortunate to be able to keep engaged by continuing to teach in our residency program. It’s satisfying and total fun. Judy and I spend

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time between Nashville, Sandestin, Fla., and Southern California, where Rob and his family live. The grandchildren are six, eight and ten. We wish we could be closer, but we feel blessed that they have such a great setup there. Lots to do, and the days go (too) quickly. Lots to reflect upon now. I continue to be amazed over the exponential growth of technology in all areas. What a difference it is making in our lives! I only wish we mortals could assimilate the developments as quickly, and the power sources remain functional. Exciting, but scary. On another note, it’s been gratifying for me to see our progress in working with and relating to an increasingly diverse population. In our residency program, we work with people of all sexes, races and ethnic origins, evaluating them on their capabilities and professional competencies. I’m impressed with the way Gilman has evolved in this regard. It’s not perfect, but so much progress since 1957. Must send my condolences over yesterday’s game. Got to hold onto the football! Was rooting for the Ravens. I like them more now. Giving up my Titans tickets. Hi Def TV and DVRs provide a very suitable alternative.” From Silt, Colo., located about 185 miles west of Denver, Oliver Perin gives us a wry update. “Not much has happened over the past year. Karen and I are both alive and that’s good news. Kind of like old cars, we just need a bit more maintenance from a few more specialists. . . . “In the summer, our visitors come from sea level areas and are for the most part couch potatoes. They like to see beautiful sights often above 10,000’ so I now own a nice portable oxygen tank for my backpack and rent a small defibrillator (both have been used with success on several occasions). Our guests often forget the effect of alcohol at 8000' (where we live), and go to bed quite early after dinner. “We will continue to live on the western slope, surrounded by wild turkeys, mule deer and elk as long as our health continues to be good. Any classmate is welcome to visit.” “Usually a man of a few words, Hill Michaels reports cryptically that he is “executive vice president at RCM&D Inc. working with Frank Riggs.” Frank is the vice chairman of the firm that we used to know as Riggs, Counselman, Michaels & Downes. From Santa Rosa near the wine country of Northern California, Tom Garrett provides the following news: “Went to the Gilman event in San Francisco, January 20, 2011. Headmaster Schmick gave a fine presentation. Gilman is in good hands. No ’57 classmates attended. Where are they? “Cappie and I now have three grandsons. THG III became one on January 15. THG Jr. made the fourthbest wine in the world for 2010 (per Wine Spectator): Revana Family Winery 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon. He got a bonus! “Jim Gieske plans a visit here in February [2011]. Sorry for the dearth of news. I am still trying to encourage hospitals to get up to speed.” Traveling to San Diego, there is news of Butch Khoury and Ludlow Keeney. Butch provided the Alumni Office with the following information about himself: “Still working on

indigent defense at 71! With two of seven kids still in college not much choice. Still running every day on the bluffs in Del Mar in order to be able to catch trains and trolleys. Not driving after being t-boned on driver’s side August 2009 — saved by our old N.H. Saab. Still looking for Ludlow Keeney out here — I know he’s here someplace — probably in Rancho Santa Fe enjoying retirement while I represent poor people. Oh well. I love it!” Ludlow continues to practice in San Diego at the firm of Keeney Waite & Stevens. His profile found on the firm’s website says the following about him: “Mr. Keeney has practiced with the firm for thirty-six years, devoting his practice exclusively to litigation and transactional matters involving real property and construction. Mr. Keeney graduated from Pomona College (B.A., 1961) and The University of California at Los Angeles (LL.B., 1964). “Mr. Keeney was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1965 and was admitted to the Supreme Court of the United States of America in 1968. “He has been included in the publication The Best Lawyers in America for the last ten years.” Ludlow and his wife Carol live in Lomas Santa Fe. They have three children working in varied fields: one an antique dealer, a second a software writer and a third a schoolteacher. Their grandchildren count was not available at press time. Ludlow has this comment to make about his departure from Gilman: “I’m sure you’ll recall that Sandy Cochran and I were sent to a reform school in Massachusetts (Milton Academy) from which we graduated in 1957. Sandy and I see each other from time to time. . . .” E-mails indicate that Butch has indeed made contact with Ludlow and that they are going to try to get together. Whether or not that happens remains to be seen. Back to the East Coast. Judi and Jim Gieske and Anne and I were guests at an elegant luncheon given by Tolly and John Lewin at their home in Baltimore in December 2010. Judi and Jim came up from Easton for the occasion. We talked about Jim’s experiences as the doctor on expedition ships voyaging to the North Pole and South Pole, a topic reported in these notes in the 2010 Gilman Bulletin. We also gnashed about the precarious state of healthcare in this country. Jim also supplied the following written account of his activities: “Still retired, still vertical, still married, still have three sons and now three grands. I see Woodward, Lewin, R. Riggs, G. Lewis and R. Graham now and again. Judi and I are trying to keep moving as best we can with travels around the world either for pure pleasure or as volunteers. Visitors to the Eastern Shore should call us!” Our genial host John Lewin looks forward to a very peripatetic 2011 intermingled with his continuing efforts as an author, as reflected in the following: “The last year has been fairly quiet. It was great reconnecting with you and Anne, we see the Gieskes from time to time, and I ran into Sam Hopkins on the street for a loooong discussion. Other than that, little contact with classmates. . . . Oh, I am in contact with Dick Riggs who

is doing very well. . . . Next week, Tolly and I leave for Buenos Aires, a flight to Ushuaia and then a cruise through the Straits of Magellan where we see the confluence of the Atlantic and the Pacific (an experience much like the one we had five years ago when we saw the Indian Ocean blend into the Atlantic off the tip of Africa ). On our return, I’ll be finalizing the publication of my second book, currently scheduled for June. It begins in the present time with anecdotes of our six grandchildren and then gradually drifts back in time to 1794 with the birth of my great-great grandfather John Lewin in Lincolnshire, England. The format is similar to the one I used in the first book — some funny scenes and a lot of dialogue. We expect to be whitewater rafting on the Snake River in July and in August, we are hosting the kids and grands for fly fishing and riding on a dude ranch in Wyoming — they all are finally old enough.” Gus Lewis highlights the activities of his daughter Kate. Kate, who received her doctorate in geology from Duke, is working for an Institute of Auckland University located on New Zealand’s North Island in a program that seeks to facilitate projects around the world that are trying to develop geothermal sources of energy. Kate and her family have been living in Auckland for three years. Linda and Bruce Brian spent six months in 2010 on the North Island where he worked as a pulmonologist at the Taranaki Base Hospital in New Plymouth. Bruce was able to see first-hand how the New Zealand system of socialized medicine works. While there, the Brians were able to travel extensively around some of New Zealand’s breathtaking countryside. They took a month to travel at the end of their stay and were able to visit Australia as they made their way back to the States. They have not yet made an expected move from Denver to Priest Lake, Idaho, where they have built a house. Bruce continues to be active professionally, working, usually for a week at a time, as a locum tenens physician in hospitals in various cities in Idaho. In June 2010, Anne and George Barker traveled with his cousin Nick Penniman ’56 and wife Linda to Alaska for a two-week trip. “The first week was spent on a small 60-passenger ship cruising the Inside Passage in southeast Alaska. The scenery was absolutely spectacular, wildlife abounded and the weather cooperated. We were able to take Zodiac rafts and get ashore from where we could kayak and hike. The supporting staff was very knowledgeable about biology, zoology, geology and other relevant subjects. The second week was spent driving from Anchorage to Fairbanks with a two-day stay in Denali National Park, the home of Mt. McKinley. We continued to luck out with the weather and each day the peak of this majestic piece of real estate was in view. Our travels inside and outside of the park brought us up pretty close and personal with lots of wild creatures, including a grizzly bear with cubs, a fox with kits, a moose with a calf and a lone wolf. It was a wonderful sea-and-land adventure — one not to be missed.” Once again, I thank all classmates who submitted to me information about themselves or other classmates for inclusion in the above. Information shared directly from the proverbial horse’s mouth is the way to go.

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The Class of 1960’s 50th Reunion Weekend included halftime recognition at the Homecoming football game. Earlier in the morning, following a memorial service in honor of deceased classmates, Headmaster John Schmick ’67 and his wife Janet hosted the class for brunch at their home. The classmates gathered Saturday evening at the home of Elizabeth and Jim Winn for their formal reunion party, and they wrapped up the weekend with a Sunday brunch at the home of Betsey and Stan Heuisler.

1958 Alan D. Yarbro adyarbro@venable.com We had no news reports for this year’s notes, but a few e-mails produced responses. Charlie Iliff is now “Of Counsel” to Iliff, Meredith, Wildberger and Berman, P.C. That means “I work a lot less, but I still have an office. Life is good.” 2010 marked the wedding of Charlie and Lucy’s daughter Elizabeth under the wedding tree in the Gros Ventre Mountains north of Jackson, Wyo. Dick McCauley authorized this response. “In October, I finally had a total knee replacement after more than 50 years of coping with the aftermath of a football injury in my junior year (torn cartilage and severed ACL) at Gilman. Fortunately, my knee surgery and the post-op rehab have gone very well, and I am nearly ready to go again. After spending two weeks in Paris last summer with Jane climbing towers, churches and museum and subway staircases (the French have not been impressed by the ADA in the U.S.), I decided that enough was enough. As I look back on what medicine did not know in 1960 about torn-up knees, ACLs and how to repair them, I have no regret about the end of my athletic aspirations that occurred at Gilman, as this was a life-changing event that fortunately caused me to reorder my priorities in so many important ways. With our three daughters, their husbands and seven grandchildren (ages 22 to 4) arriving here soon here in Easton for the Christmas holidays, I have a renewed appreciation of those intervening years and of being

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able to look forward to the future, with good health and a new knee to help speed me along the way. My best wishes to everyone and I look forward to our next reunion.” It is appropriate to add that Dick was one of our very best athletes and was completely generous in his encouragement of those of us who were lucky enough to escape injury. Alex Doyle sold his business in 2006. He does some sales for the buyer of the business, freelance writing and small business consulting. He lives in a houseboat moored at son Tom ’76’s property on Rock Creek (directly across the Patapsco from Sparrows Point) and is very active in Singles-on-Sailboats, a 700-member club that provides extensive opportunities to cruise the Bay. Alex’s three children live in the Baltimore area. Tom owns a marble fabricating business in south Baltimore, with son Tommy, 22, working for him. Jay ’81 lives in Towson, working for Baltimore County. Daughter Muffie, who works for The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, lives with her husband Daniel and daughter Callie, 13. Alex’s advice: “For our creaky old souls? Just stay active, whether it be work, a vacation or hobby; cherish and nurture your family.” Regards to all from your Class Secretary, who remains full time at Venable.

1960 Ted Knowles feknowles@verizon.net Will Baukhages is retired. He and Susan live “in the low country of South Carolina.” He’s a half-hour “from the culture of Savannah and Hilton Head. Lots of golf.” Go get ’em, Will. His e-mail is wbaukhages@gmail.com. John Cochran says, “I am retired.” He is a volunteer docent with the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier Museum and The San Diego Opera. Jim Constable loves being a lawyer. He’s now 40 years with his firm, and he enjoys it “more every day.” Two of his sons were married this year. Overall, “six out of seven are now married.” Also, he has 13 grandchildren. You are The Man, Jim, or I should say The Granddad. John Rouse retired from the food and agriculture organization of the U.N. in 2004. He’s been living and working in Rome, Italy, since 1984. He is currently working on a novel based on his experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 1966 to 1968. Peter Wood is now emeritus professor of history at Duke University. He remains very active in his work, however. His book on Winslow Homer’s little known painting “Near Andersonville” came out late in 2010. It is a gem. As for Ted Knowles, I work three days a week, at the VA Medical Clinic in Cambridge, Md. I am the clinic’s psychiatrist and love it. At least I’ve been able to cut down from five days. I think all who attended the 50th class reunion enjoyed it immensely. There were classmates who looked the same as in 1960. Others couldn’t be identified without looking at their name tags. (I was in the latter group.) So many memories came flooding back, even for days afterwards. The wives of our deceased classmates, Bob Sollod and John Armor, attended the reunion on their behalf. It was clear they were moved by our memories of their husbands as Gilman students.

1961 John Gerhardt gerhardtjohn@yahoo.com Thanks to all who responded so quickly when my computer crashed. Regarding the ethereal nature of the Internet, I would be happy at our 50th to listen to anyone’s five-minute explanation of just where it is out there, and why we can sometimes find/retrieve it and at other times it’s lost. Back to reality: We lost Sam Pierson this past summer. He had been sick and disabled for so long, I choose to believe he’s now wrestling for fun and shooting goals at empty nets. Times spent at his house are remembered fondly by most of us, and our sympathies go out to his family, particularly sister Stevie.

Moby Mudge’s family, as of Jan. 4, is dealing with the end of 9-year-old grandson Gage’s long battle with cancer, as hospice care has been brought to their home. Nothing is more devastating than the loss of a child, as I know some of us are acutely aware. On a happier note, Moby’s wife’s back surgery last year was successful in relieving pain, and their German shepherd puppy has been a “challenging bundle of energy.” He is currently teaching English as a second language, running their rural church cemetery, reading a book a month (book club), chairing the town’s board of ethics and pursuing photography as a hobby in his spare time. He comments, “Let’s appreciate and take care of our health while we have it.” John Snead is still “loving every day” at Brown Advisory, while Mary is retired and enjoying volunteer work. Son John is moving his family to Williamsburg. Bryson Christhilf says he’s so old all his prescriptions have “gone generic,” and Peter Brathwaite has moved back to Gainesville, Fla., where he went to grad school. Congratulations to John Andrews, who is currently engaged and looking forward to a spring wedding, while Bob Moss’s “best news” is the addition of daughter Lucile’s son, Benjamin ROBERT Meyer, which will necessitate many East Coast trips to see him in New York and two others in D.C. Scott Faulkner is retired, but really isn’t, and enjoys beautiful middle Tennessee, grandchildren and daughter, who just graduated from nursing school. He also enjoys Vandy basketball in that antiquated, old-time relic of a gym. Talk about home-court advantage! Jeff Evans is enjoying his home-court “Paradise” in Patagonia, Ariz., selling as much real estate as possible from his office, which is one block from his house and one mile from the high Sonoran Desert. He comments, “No need for fences here, and I haven’t worn a tie in years.” His son, Clarke, and his two grandchildren live with him, which he is enjoying immensely. “To the surprise of many, for the fourth year, I’m still extracting taxes from the citizens of D.C. as their Tax Commissioner,” reports Steve Cordi, “and I have no other news.” Frank Morgan continues his practice, focusing on intellectual property law, while wife Susan works at the JHU School of Public Health. He has one son working in Dallas, one in White Hall, and his daughter is in D.C. T Tall has retired from the Cornwall, Vt., town government after 22 years. He is renovating his 226-year-old Cape Cod house, helping his son do the same in Madison, Wis., working on capital campaigns for the local EMS and Humane societies and traveling to China with wife Cy this spring. It’s a good thing you’re retired, T! Lin and Bill Hardy are celebrating their third grandchild, Margaret Pembrooke Timberlake. With their other two grandchildren, they experienced a Road Scholar (formerly Elderhostel) intergenerational trip to the Grand Canyon last summer, which necessitated a two-week R&R to France’s Loire Valley for food, wine and sightseeing. Nancy and Henry Hopkins celebrated their 35th (Felicitations!), and Nancy got a new knee while Henry continues his quest for a new back. Despite that failure, he has embarked on heading the Mount Vernon restoration project (I believe that includes the

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first Washington Monument in the country). Perhaps you can find some correlation between the monument and your back, Henry. He also claims to be beginning javelin training for the 2012 Olympics. I think he’s a little late, and perhaps the javelin could better serve as an appropriate surgical tool. Edie and Jim Garrett took their two oldest grandchildren on a 10-day trip through northern New England and babysit for their two youngest in Baltimore. In his spare time, Jim helped staff Princeton’s Outdoor Action freshman pre-orientation wilderness trips all over the upper East Coast; he continues chairing the Evergreen House Foundation and contributes time and effort to Outward Bound, the Parks and People Foundation, and the Garrett Fund for Treatment of Children at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dan Fisher says the past year has been a great one for his family. His daughter Caitlin completed her master’s degree in gender and economic development from the London School of Economics and played professional soccer in Brazil; daughter Lauren was curator of an art show in Santa Fe, created beasts for a movie and danced at the Fringe Festival in New Orleans. His wife Tish continues to run the occupational health program for Massachusetts, and Dan continues to spread the good news that people can recover from mental health disorders, “despite misinformation to the contrary,” through his federally-funded program. John Stockbridge, upon reading Fisher’s e-mail, claims “one-upmanship.” His grandsons live on the Mexican coast, and are learning to surf (in Spanish); his granddaughter (7), in New York, is playing piano, learning karate and reading “Winnie the Pooh,” “Alice in Wonderland” and “Anna Karenina” (in Russian); and three grandchildren in New York are ice skating, playing soccer and building Lego castles. John failed to tell us (modesty, of course) that he is now curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, music producer for Jon Bon Jovi, editor of Forbes, and has signed the first multimillion dollar major league lacrosse contract, under the stipulation that he be given #57 and that it be permanently retired before he is, making him the oldest professional player ever! Rick Ober was awarded a lifetime membership to the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce for creating the best male costume at a chamber event. He also noted that someone else noted that Roy Barker would be rolling over in his grave if he could read Fisher’s statement that he is using federal funds to spread misinformation. Harry Swope just completed a two-year rebuilding project after California fires and mudslides destroyed his home. He is currently pursuing several options to address our healthcare mess and is treasurer of the American Medical College of Homeopathy. His wife is costume designer for “CSI NY,” and son Forrest is project manager for a Charlottesville company, processing clinical trial data. Mac Passano just returned from a vacation in St. Maarten with wife Helen, all three daughters, three sons-in-law and five granddaughters. Have you ever heard of the Y chromosome, Mac? After a 33-year career at Waverly, Inc., Mac continues to consult with young

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entrepreneurs on growing their businesses and projecting their ideas into the future. My great joy is that Ann and I will become grandparents for the first time in June. I know we have a lot of catching up to do, and I will be sure to inform son David and daughter-in-law Jinny. Last June I attended the Lacrosse Championships at M&T Bank Stadium downtown and watched Butch West referee one of the more than 2,000 games he has done over a 37-year career. The field’s surface temperature was a mere 135 degrees, and Butch was still running at the end. Also, I attended the 50th reunion of my original class, and had a fantastic time, being with old friends, and seeing others I had not seen or heard from in 50 years. It was amazing to hear classmates (myself included) say they hesitated to come and now can’t wait for the 55th. For those who have not attended our previous reunions for one reason or another, you have been missed and you have missed a wonderful experience. Our 50th is a one-time event, so don’t miss it . . . I can’t wait to do it for a second time! P.S. As I indicated at the beginning, a week before these notes were due, my computer went south for the winter. There are undoubtedly a few who had previously sent messages I could not remember, and who did not get the message to respond again. To those whose notes I may have left out, I sincerely apologize. Oh, yes, I know I heard from Bill Ewing. He said Lynn and he would be willing to put anyone and his family up with food and lodging for two months — or was it. . . ?

1962 Gordon Hammann ghammann@sfandc.com It’s very hard to believe that we have been away from the hallowed halls of Gilman for 49 years come June of 2011. I look back and wonder where the time went; then I look at the five children Jane and I have, and the six grandchildren, and I realize this is what we spent the time accomplishing! I am going into my 26th year with SF&C Insurance Associates, Inc., and still I’m having fun! My tennis game is the same but playing more. All is well in Baltimore. Bud Adams went to France this summer, and he says his golf game has not improved despite all his attempts at cheating; he also had shoulder surgery this fall and is recovering nicely. Andy Barnes has three grandchildren, all living in San Francisco. Andy reports he is in good health and is putting off retirement. Rick Buck lost his wife Ginny on September 23, 2010, after a long journey with breast cancer. “Ginny lived fully for 16 years with cancer,” he writes. “She was my medical partner sharing our allergy and asthma practice for the past 34 years. I am still working as a member of Oregon Allergy Associates and I am blessed to love what I do.” King Hurlock has completed his 15th mission trip to Bolivia and supports two little girls; very rewarding experience for anyone and he highly recommends.

Randy Wootton, Ken Bourne, Richard Evans, Peter Wood and Kent Mullikin, all from the Class of 1960, at the annual alumni crab feast.

Charlie Marek has retired, and has had a granddaughter last June and a wedding in July of 2010. His children both practice law in Baltimore County. John Peabody sent in a blank form, but I was able to talk with him over the phone, and he reports that all is well with his family and that he is enjoying retirement. Bert Polk resides in Annapolis and writes that he is awaiting our 50th Reunion to see how well we have all aged! Since these are the only reports I received in the mail, I will try to report on the guys here in Baltimore. John Sheldon has gone back to swimming and traveling a bit more, while enjoying the family. Bill Kerr is still running the construction company with young Bill’s able assistance. Don Proctor helped with The Gilman Fund. He lives in Towson and is still practicing law. Robbie Boyd is experiencing the young daughter era, while enjoying the rest of the family. Rick Hynson, I heard, was cutting back on work and putting more time into enjoying the Easton way of life. Rusty Latrobe is still in real estate and his croquet tournament is approximately 30 years old. I did talk to Bob Little. He is developing properties with his son, and it’s going well except for the insurance rates that we discussed. I am sure he worked it out! Rob Maslin and his bike hit the road from time to time, while Rob does tax returns on the side. Bob Oster is working with Brown Advisory and also goes to his place in St. Lawrence frequently, taking up a lot of his time. Randy Plummer talked about retiring, but also has not “pulled the trigger” as of this past October. Playing golf in Gulf Breeze, Fla., keeps him active. Ed Rich is working hard at Northrop Grumman and has a boat to get away from work.

Lyle Schill enjoys Gibson Island and has embarked on a new venture in the insurance business. Bill Shaffer was home at the time I called him and reports all is going well. He enjoys trips to Georgetown from New Jersey for long weekends; lots of restaurants and places to experience . . . sounds like he has found “the good life.” On a final note, two classmates passed away in 2010: Ray Ungern and Randy Arnot now bring the total to 15 we have lost; all of us are blessed to enjoy good health going into our 67th year. I hope many more of you will send in news about you and what is going on in your life. Phoning or e-mailing me works just fine. I hope all of you can plan to be at our 50th Reunion in 2012, where we may all enjoy recalling the good times during our high school years!

1963 Jake Slagle jake@marylandminerals.com For classmates Lance Bendann, John Claster, Bill Oster, Bob Dyer, Terry Ellen, Ward Coe and yours truly, the premier Gilman Alumni experience of 2010 was a celebration of Nick Schloeder’s 80th birthday at Tark’s in Green Spring Station. After being escorted to a private room by Tark’s extraordinarily adept managing partner Billy Shriver, we enjoyed good food as Nick held forth with myriad recollections from the early 60’s of wild — but true — happenings from Gilman and elsewhere about town. In recognition of the occasion, Bill Lamb drove from his home in Vermont to his college alma mater, Dartmouth, from where he e-mailed a series of photos. They pictured him first sprinting on the playing field, then enjoying a cold one at the

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blocking dummy, under which the final picture found him spread-eagled on his back. While this was all going on, Bill Paternotte was relaxing at his summer home in upstate New York, where he both vacations and chairs the Board of the Adirondack Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Closer to home, Bill continues to dispense investment advice to high net worth clients at Brown Advisory. He also serves as budget and finance chair for Gilman’s Board of Trustees, where two of his seven grandchildren are now students. Bill Legg has five grandchildren from his two older daughters and hints at the possibility of more in the future from the youngest daughter, who married in June. As of September, Tom Chase had nearly completed moving with his father from Ocean City back to New Hampshire. In Carlisle, Mass., George Scarlett writes that after settling their youngest into Wesleyan, he and Shirley are “empty nesters.” Ted Leach reports that his and Bonnie’s eldest daughter now practices veterinary medicine in Connecticut; his younger daughter attends veterinary school on Prince Edward Island. After 38 years at Public Health Management Corporation, John Loeb looks forward to winding things down in order to “go to the heart of what Gilman was about,” namely writing. Very possibly as I was trying to reach Bruce Marston in October by phone in Port Townsend, Wash., he was passing through Baltimore and visited Gilman to help the usual suspects raise money for The Gilman Fund. Although I’m not certain whether this group actually reached Tom Farley, they located a pertinent Internet site to which I sent an e-mail. Tom responded with as comprehensive, concise and enjoyable to read an update as has arrived in my decade as your class secretary. Tom is currently wrapping up the law practice he established after moving with Carol to Port St. Lucie, Fla., in 1997. Three years later, he took up theater in earnest and has since done about 25 shows, appearing in 13 with Carol. He has served on the board of directors of Shiloh Theatrical Productions for seven years, four as president. In addition to the boards of two other non-profits, Tom is also a founding member of Chapter 1041 of the Vietnam Veterans of America in Stuart, Fla. His and Carol’s son John is a structural engineer living in Timonium with his wife Stacie and three children. Their daughter Caroline lives in Quepos, Costa Rica, with her husband Francisco and two children. Tom looks forward to making it to our big 50th Reunion just a couple years hence. Jack Nesbitt, at the time he completed his alumni dues form, has two grandchildren, with a third on the way. He’s still in practice, and he still enjoys being a Teaching Company lecturer. Again this year, he got the Lionel trains up and running. Alas: It’s now 2011. My Class of ’63 alumni notes had duly gone to bed a week ago — but luckily not yet to press. Here’s the latest: classmate and retired Gilman trustee Lance Bendann deserves rainmaker credit for keeping our class connected. His latest coup was a luncheon at the soon-to-be-sold Valley Inn, to which 14 of us made it on a couple days notice. The occasion: Eddie Supplee was in town, having recently traveled with Sally to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Israel. “People

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in Arab countries were particularly nice,” Eddie said, “especially in the West Bank.” His and Sally’s other trips this past year were to Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Along with Lance, yours truly and Eddie, the gathering included Terry Ellen, Dave Larabee, Bob Dyer, Bill Oster, Bill Paternotte, John Zink, Claudius Klimt, Jimmy Rouse, Chris Scarlett and Teddy Mudge. As I arrived, someone was speaking with Bob Dobbin in California on a cell phone. I grabbed it long enough to learn directly that Bob has been retired for over a year, does volunteer work, is happy to have his three offspring, all between 30 and 35, living accessibly in California and gets to Baltimore all too rarely. John Zink, whom I hadn’t seen in a while, looks years younger than his age, and still actively practices law at Venable. Jimmy Rouse continues to spend as much time as possible painting and remains active with Baltimore’s Charles Street Trolley project. Bill Oster saw his son Hall married off in a glorious outdoor setting in rural Washington State. And Claudius!! I’d tried to reach him before on his cell at GBMC. He was too busy to speak between patients and suggested I call him back later where he couldn’t be reached. No wonder! In a different arena, and presumably as an encore to the airplane he built in his basement a couple years ago, Claudius doubles as chairman of the board of the aerospace research and development company Carter Aviation Technologies. Absent and out of town were John Claster and Ward Coe. John had earlier e-mailed that he’d agreed to head the board of Safe Kids Worldwide. And thanks again to Lance for filling me in regarding more news on John as well as Ward. Last fall, John attended a dinner on the Eastern Shore where Craig Woodward was the guest of honor. Around the same time, the Maryland Legal Services Corporation presented Ward with the prestigious Arthur W. Machen, Jr. Award for his outstanding pro bono community service work. Thanks to Gilman’s Alumni Office for permitting me to submit this late breaking news.

1965 William R. Baker bill.baker@willis.com First, the Class owes kudos to Mort Foster for organizing the 45th Reunion in Little Italy. I was ill that night and unable to attend, but I talked to several classmates who did, and all had a very good time. Sandy Swope came from Maine and Mac Lewis from New Mexico. I received quite a few responses to my e-mail plea for news. Thanks to those who brought me up to date. Fred Whelan writes from the University of Pittsburgh that he authored another book that was published in 2009 and has two grandchildren so far. David Dunning writes from Portland, Ore., that he is still taking courses out there, including a couple of Western Civ courses taught by retired professors who are most impressive. David is still doing a lot of singing, which I might have

It’s all smiles for the Class of 1965 as the classmates mark their 45th Reunion at Rocco’s Capriccio. Salud!

guessed from his e-mail address, redboysings@yahoo.com. In the exercise area, David is involved in thrice weekly Powerball classes, which sound brutal. Peter Taliaferro works as an attorney for the Maryland Department of Transportation, I think for the Port Authority in Baltimore. Peter had some tips for me as to how to find information on classmates through Facebook and Google. Steve Thomas writes that he has traveled with Audrey in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand with their son, Steven ’06. Steven graduated from Gilman and Bowdoin and is now on a fellowship from Princeton, teaching for a year in a small town in Thailand. Tom Webster checks in from Virginia that he was unable to attend the reunion, but he would have loved to have been there. Tom continues working and traveling for VF Corporation, but his wife retired after 36 years of teaching. Tom’s son Win lives in Asheville, N.C., where his band Sanctum Sully plays at local clubs and other venues throughout the south. Check them out at sanctumsully.com. Neal (Sandy) Harris reports from Waban, Mass. Sandy is still at Babson College, lecturing in economics, and he and Annie have a place on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire that they love. Sandy enjoys cross-country biking (across the U.S. twice) and fly-fishing. Sandy’s oldest son Jeff is an attorney in Boston, and his second son Chris works for a private equity firm in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Hmmm . . . somewhere is my distant past, I remember the No-Name Bar in Saratoga Springs, a place that Richard Tilghman might have frequented in his college days. Temple Grassi is working hard on his golf game, in Chevy Chase and in Maine, and he reports that Jay Wilson is a new grandfather. Stan Klinefelter is very active with the Maryland State Golf Association, officiating at tournaments around Maryland and learning the voluminous rules and interpretations of golf. Stan’s daughter Amanda had Stan’s first granddaughter in May to go with his two grandsons.

Steve Redd reports that he is enjoying retirement and is totally back to normal following his quadruple bypass surgery. Son Justin is at University of Maryland Law School and daughter Jennifer is at University of Maryland Medical School. Steve’s wife Kyoko continues at the Bryn Mawr Little School. Alex Fisher continues with his four-year old venture, Archstone Portfolio Solutions, with oversight of just over $1.5B. Alex’s daughter Liz teaches at the Lab School in Baltimore; second daughter Catherine is a nurse at Shock Trauma at University Hospital; son McLane is an industrial property broker at Cushman + Wakefield; and son Davis is a junior at Gilman, playing lacrosse and volleyball. Alex reports that he had two fishing trips out west this year with Rog Israel. Rog is retired from the restaurant business in Colorado. Mac Lewis tells us that he now mostly manages major RFP procurements for the Tax and Revenue Department of the State of New Mexico Motor Vehicle Division. “Surprisingly, I enjoy working in state government — never a shortage of new challenges!” Lastly, Nelson Goldberg sent me a write-up on him, an Alumni Profile in the Medicine Bulletin from University Hospital. The article was terrific and discussed Nelson’s work in developing countries, Guyana, El Salvador, Peru, Thailand and China, performing cleft palate surgeries, nasal reconstructions and hand mending on children in these countries. The rest of the article focused on Nelson’s lifelong motorcycle interest and his recent acquisition of a Ducati Desmosedici RR, a Grand Prix racing bike. Rest assured, however, that Marcia doesn’t let him race this machine, but he has a group of other cycle enthusiasts called Fall Tour that travel all over the country riding motorcycles. Brings back memories of Dickie!

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Charlie Fenwick ’66 Rides Again Past Gilman Board of Trustees President and steeplechase legend Charlie Fenwick ’66 participated in the Aintree Legends Charity Race at the 2011 Grand National in Liverpool, England on April 9. The celebrity race featured 10 Grand National winning jockeys. Charlie was Grand National champion in 1980 aboard Ben Nevis. We could tell you the story of Charlie’s first race in almost two decades, but we thought it best to let him tell you himself, through his Facebook posts. April 2, 2011 at 9:54am Unfortunate Events As I prepare to ride in my first horse race in seventeen years, I pack all my gear including silks, breeches, boots in my bag, put it in the car, start up the car, and go back in the house to get more stuff. I come back to discover that I have locked myself out of my brand new Subaru. This is a helluva way to start my new career! Fortunately I know the dealer and was able to get another set of keys. Maybe the gods are trying to tell me something. April 4, 2011 at 8:54pm I am heading to England to ride in a Celebrity Legends Charity Race at Aintree on April 9, the day of the Grand National. This is an effort by Bob Champion, who won the race the year after I did—30 years ago. He is a survivor of testicular cancer, and this race is dedicated to raising money to cure this insidious disease. April 6, 2011 at 10:01am Entries for John Smith’s Aintree Legends Charity Race 1st Race – 1:00pm One mile five furlongs to be started by flag Horse: Erin Dancer (IRE); Trainer: Ferdy Murphy; Owner: J and A Millar; Colours: Pink with a black disc; Graham Thorner (Well To Do 1972) Horse: Sky Calling; Trainer: Martin Keighley; Owner: Nicholson Racing Syndicates A; Colours: Blue / Grey quarters / white sleeves; Charlie Fenwick (Ben Nevis 1980) Horse: Shinnecock Bay; Trainer: Oliver Sherwood; Owner: R Waters; Colours: Blue with green stars; Ben de Haan (Corbiere 1983) Horse: Fair Gale; Trainer: Philip Hobbs; Owner: Patrick Wilmott; Colours: Red / grey cap; Hywel Davies (Last Suspect 1985) Horse: Art Man; Trainer: James Frost; Owner: Mrs D Hunt; Colours: Black / coloured sleeves; Jimmy Frost (Little Polveir 1989) Horse: Higgy’s Boy; Trainer: Nicky Henderson; Owner: I Higginson; Colours: Red / black stars; Marcus Armytage (Mr Frisk 1990)

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Horse: South O’The Border; Trainer: Nigel Twiston-Davies; Owner: Bryan Mathieson; Colours: Red / black marks on shoulders and grey marks on sleeves; Carl Llewellyn (Party Politics 1992, Earth Summit 1998) Horse: Fortuni; Trainer: Rose Dobbin; Owner: Mr and Mrs Duncan Davidson; Colours: Pink with a black diamond; Tony Dobbin (Lord Gyllene 1997) Horse: Dream Catcher (SWE); Trainer: JonJo O’Neill; Owner: Ms Mary Miles; Colours: Red / green; Jim Culloty (Bindaree, 2002) Horse: Ormello (FR); Trainer: Lucinda Russell; Owner: The Ormello Way; Colours: Light blue with dark blue stripes; Peter Scudamore (8 time Champion Jockey) Horse: Plenty Pocket (FR); Trainer: Paul Nicholls; Owner: Timeform Betfair Racing Club & Clive Smith; Colours: Pink (Timeform Racing Club’s colours); Charlie Swan (10 time Irish Champion Jockey) April 7 at 2:54pm Our group has largely arrived in Liverpool from as far away as Long Beach, Calif., and Boulder, Colo. Our race may not be a betting event, but don’t tell Billy Boniface, who gave me $200 to bet on my horse! April 12 at 12:42pm We had a lifetime trip to Aintree, where Sky Calling and I were 9th out 12 in the Bob Champion’s Legends Charity Race on Grand National day before 70,000 spectators. My mare was coming off an 18-month layoff as I was coming off a 17-year layoff—she was fitter than I. There may not be a horse in the British Isles that could have carried me to victory. Great, great experience!

1966 Bruce Michelson reports that his daughter Hope finished her Ph.D. at Cornell in May 2010. His daughter Sarah was married at home in Urbana in June 2010. “The Mark Twain Centaury has me doing speeches all over the place,” he says.

1967 F. Key Kidder keykidder@gmail.com Caught up with our man in motion, the peripatetic Mark Kiefaber, who gets around like he’s Secretary of State. Mark and wife Ginny Whitelaw — founders of Focus Leadership, LLC — replenish the corporate leadership of multinationals like Pepsi, Novartis, Dell and Johnson & Johnson, jetting off to China, Australia, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Portugal. Mark’s formidable verbal power was turbocharged by lessons he learned reading the biographies of America’s executive leaders — each and every President except obscure Millard Fillmore, for whom he couldn’t find something suitably serious — an endeavor that consumed three years. Mark says he’s “already rolled what I learned” into his meld of psychology, Zen and motivational technique that he dispenses to enhance managerial performance. The book “Founding Brothers” by Joseph Ellis piqued Mark’s interest. “After that, I just wanted more, and since the presidents are a fixed set, I knew there would be an end to it. The context to this project is that I have a terrible memory for names and dates and history taught in school. I’m all about stories, seems like I never forget one. I am just curious about people who have done something special. And more than that, I like to know personal stuff, which is probably why I studied psychology.” As to the best, “that’s tough, because there’s the book and then there’s the guy. My favorite book was the John Adams bio by David McCullough, but Teddy Roosevelt is my favorite president. What an incredible guy. “Character flaws and strengths matter most, but their success or failure was driven by some combination of personality, allies and foes, external events like the economy, their route and habits from past accomplishments and how much they really wanted to be in charge. The ones who worked at learning from their early mistakes in office did better.” Mark’s immersion in Presidential oeuvre is enough to make one wish the late Willis Spencer was alive to see it. Mr. Spencer, who taught history, accused many a classmate of using their head for little more than a “hat rack.” Bill deBuys writes that “my kids are doing well, both now in D.C. Daughter Katie is an actor busy in regional theater, making her way in a very difficult field; son David works in corporate consulting and in the last six months has traveled to Chile, Columbia and India.

My current book, “A Great Aridness,” on climate change in the Southwest, will come out with Oxford University Press in the fall of 2011. The next project will take me into the deep bush in Laos and Vietnam sometime in the first half of 2011. More on that next time.” Bruce Taylor is still “practicing psychiatry part time at the same office in Ellicott City while doing real estate development and management. It hasn’t hurt that Ellicott City/Columbia has been named the second-best place to live in the country by Money Magazine, as the bulk of our holdings are in Ellicott City. My oldest son is an M.D.-Ph.D. student at Hopkins and has been married since September 2009; my second son works with me in the real estate business; oldest daughter has just started University of Maryland Medical School and youngest daughter is a junior chemistry major at Goucher College, like her mother and grandmother before her. It’s great that all the family is in town — we just enjoyed a great crab feast get-together. “My wife continues her GYN practice along with being president of Temple Oheb Shalom. I am chair of the Maryland Psychiatric Political Action Committee and speak frequently with our local legislators about mental health and substance abuse needs. I continue to try to save our county at least 10% of the cost of health care, about $333 billion a year, by recommending adoption of immediate electronic payments for health care along with electronic medical records accessed by credit card style swiping of a health card coupled with a password and fingerprint for secure online access to records. Details of how to get there in three to nine years, in six pages, are at www.reform-healthcare.com, including many additional benefits for public health, research and oversight.” Jeff Levi was enjoying a hamburger in a sports bar in 1996 when the girlfriend of a friend asked if he’d “play Santa for her mother’s VFW. I said sure. So I showed up at a veteran’s hospital outside Wilmington, Del. They had a stretch suit. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen me in a stretch Santa suit. But it all turned out very well.” Jeff was hooked; the next year, he bought his own suit. “If you do it, you got to do it right.” Jeff was soon booked in Baltimore and the District of Columbia, then Philadelphia. Now he says he makes 13 annual visits to 11 veterans’ facilities on “my own dime and time,” often in coordination with VFW or hospital gift distribution. “You’d be surprised how much more effective it is for men in their 60s, 70s or 80s to get a gift from Santa. It stirs dormant feelings and emotions. It all works out well.” Now “more or less retired” from his legal practice, Jeff lives on the Bush River in eastern Baltimore County.

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1968 Christopher R. West cwest@comcast.net For the first time ever, no one sent in any news via Gilman, so these notes are entirely comprised of information that I put together from various sources, including an e-mail appeal that I sent to various class members. Andy Hirsch reports that “perhaps the highlight of the past year was spending two weeks in Colorado bicycling. I spent one week in Boulder acclimating to the altitude and the long ascents and descents. It is not easy to find 20-mile climbs in Indiana! The second week was spent with about 1,500 of my best friends doing a figure eight loop starting and ending in Gunnison, Colo. We covered about 500 miles in seven days, six days of cycling and one day of rest. Riders would typically be on the road by 7 a.m. each day and arrive at the next campsite, usually a public high school athletic field, by mid-afternoon. ‘Tent city’ blossomed shortly thereafter. Weather and scenery were fantastic. Perhaps the most noteworthy feature of this year’s Bicycle Tour of Colorado was the fact that as we rode around the figure eight loop (dipping into northern New Mexico for one night), we had constant head wind. By my reckoning, we had about 10 miles worth of tailwind in six days of riding!” I responded to Andy, “I’ve done a lot of canoeing and kayaking over the years and have been mystified that the wind ALWAYS blows upstream, right in your face; it NEVER blows downstream at your back. There were times that, right in the middle of rapids, the wind was so strong that unless I paddled hard, my craft would simply sit still in the river.” This year, Andy is hoping to go further west since his daughter is living in Berkeley, Calif. If anyone is in the area, let him know at ashirsch@mac.com. Last winter, my eye was caught by the following headline in The Wall Street Journal: “Iwry is Scholar of Savings,” with the sub-heading “Savings-Plan Wonk.” The article describes Mark Iwry as “uniquely powerful,” the Treasury Department’s senior benefits official who “almost single-handedly guid[es] the nation’s approach to retirement accounts and policy.” The article states that Mark has “a habit of speaking in complete paragraphs, with subordinate clauses and footnotes.” A Drexel law professor describes him as “sort of like a biblical scholar.” With the new Congress in 2011, Mark may come into his own, as the Journal reports that “people on both sides of the political divide cite Mr. Iwry’s ability to get opposing parties to find common ground.” A recent book of quotations contains the following one by Mark, comparing the U.S. Tax Code to the Bible: “Of only one other book can it be said . . . that great minds have devoted countless hours to the scrutiny and learned exegesis of every passage; that differing interpretations of the text have given rise to some of humanity’s most epic struggles; and that, while millions mine it for valuable insights and inspiration, those who claim to live by the book

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and follow its precepts probably far outnumber those who actually do so.” Mark himself reports: “Our family has been blessed with good health and much for which to be grateful. I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to serve in the Obama Administration as senior advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury, where my portfolio includes responsibility for national policy toward — and regulation of — saving, retirement plans, 401(k)s, etc., and health reform. All advice from my classmates and fellow alums is welcome and treated with the seriousness it deserves.” Lans Smith writes as follows: “2010 has been a big year of joyful transition for me. I retired from 20 years of teaching in Texas, and moved to California to take a new position as co-chair of the mythological studies program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara and to celebrate a new life with my partner Cheryle van Scoy. We live very happily together by the sea, so I can run every day on the beach, with the Channel Islands off to the south, and the magnificent coastal mountains to the north and east. I am doing some work on Joseph Campbell’s M.A. thesis of 1927 on the Dolorous Stroke in the Arthurian Romances, included in his extensive papers in the OPUS Archives. Also, I am making the difficult adjustment to teaching twice-a-month to Ph.D. students instead of eight to 12 everyday. No more sentence fragments and comma splices in freshmen essays! Life after all is full of grace when we follow our bliss.” Rick Dana still leads a life full of mind, body and spirit. He reports from Placentia, Calif., that he still practices internal medicine part time and he volunteers at a clinic for the homeless. He’s lost 70 pounds, bench presses 315 pounds, learned judo and participated in wrestling tournament “opens.” He’s also a devout Christian. “I am president of the Public Choice Society, which does research where economics and political science overlap,” writes Larry Kenny, a professor of economics at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Some of us are leading more ordinary lives here in Baltimore. Bob Proutt has started a new business in the construction industry and has been working with Jamie Snead on the new kennel facilities at the Baltimore SPCA. Jim Murphy is an orthopedic surgeon at the Baltimore Washington Medical Center. I am now a member of the Management Committee at my law firm. Finally, the sad news. Travers Nelson reports that Rick Bergland is quite ill. And another member of our class has died. Alex Gordon died in May 2010 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Easton, Md., not long before his 60th birthday. After Gilman, Alex obtained a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and a J.D. from the University of Maryland Law School. Alex established a solo legal practice in Easton. His book, “Gordon on Maryland Foreclosures,” is the standard reference book in Maryland on the subject.

Joanna Kelly and John Gilpin hosted the 40th Reunion of the Class of 1970 at their Jarrettsville, Md., home. A highlight of the evening was a video presentation of photographs and messages provided by classmates. Harry Shaw compiled and produced the video. See page 88 for some of the photographs.

1970 Howard Baetjer, Jr. hbaetjer@verizon.net John Gilpin and his fiancée Joanna Kelly hosted our class dinner and 40th Reunion at their cheerful home in horse country on October 16. With John’s daughter Sarah helping with the food and son-in-law Bret tending bar, it was a Gilpin family affair. The 21 classmates and various wives and partners enjoyed good food and reminiscing. Classmates attending included your secretary, Dave Baker, David Beaven, Duane Chase, Kevin Glover, Rafael Haciski, Skip Hebb, Julien Hecht, Stephan Manuelides, Warren Marcus, Frank Meeder, Mark Morrill, Bill Mueller, Hunter Nesbitt, Andy Quartner, John Renneburg, Harry Shaw, Bobby Siems, Thayer Simmons, Page West, Stewart Wise and Tim Zouck. Some of us had a difficult time recognizing Warren Marcus because is so tall. He says he grew several inches in college. The highlight of the evening was Harry Shaw’s wonderful video presentation of all the pictures and messages that various classmates had sent in for the occasion. If you’d like a DVD just write me or Harry. Meanwhile, here are classmates’ messages, some quoted and some summarized by Harry, our guest class secretary for this issue (thanks, Harry!):

From David Beaven: “After graduating from college, I was in the service (Army) for three years. Then I taught for a number of years at a vocational school. After that, I went to work for the State of Florida. I am with the Agency for Health Care Administration in the Tampa office as a data specialist. During this time, I also went back to school and got a master’s degree in adult education. “I am divorced, no children. Live in Clearwater, Fla., with my partner Allan. We have a condo in a retirement community, though I have no plans on retiring for a while. I enjoy walking, golf (which is the same thing), reading and socializing with friends. “I do come back to Maryland from time to time to see my two brothers who live in Laurel and Gaithersburg, but coming back to Baltimore (other than the airport!) is a novel experience as will be this reunion. I confess that I haven’t kept up with any of my Gilman classmates. Looking forward to reacquainting myself with you all and to see how youthful you all look. I myself have scarcely aged — especially after getting an eyelift last year. Wink.” From Michael Bowe: “I wanted to send belated regrets about missing the big reunion. I won’t make it down from my home in Maine, though I will think of you all. It does defy belief that it is our turn to hit the milestone, but then if we weren’t reaching our 40th we wouldn’t be breathing.

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3 1. The Gettinger family, Robynn Abrams, Jianjia and Don ‘70. 2. Rafael Haciski ’70 with his whole clan.

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3. Derrick Matthews ’70 lives in Tanzania, where he is chief of pediatrics at Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre. Here he is his pictured (far right) at

Selian Lutheran Hospital, a rural hospital treating the poor and medically indigent, where he also does rounds and consultations.

4. Harry Shaw ’70 models his Scottish heritage. 5. Susan and Howie Baetjer ’70 out West.

“I am married, living in Belfast, Maine, a small town halfway up the coast. I have lived in Maine since 1983, and I really like it. I have a private psychotherapy practice. My three stepchildren, Morgan, Sylvan and Kyle, are in their 20’s and are launched. I have a 12-year-old daughter Emma. Does this make me the classmate with the youngest child? My wife is an elementary school principal.” Russell Bullock went north and had a daughter named Carly. He has since come South to join up with his wife Kate and his ever-present shaggy dog. John Clemson has always had an appreciation for nature’s beauty that he has often shown through photography. But his most ambitious, successful and notorious effort, combining his background with architecture and interest in landscaping, was the terraced garden at his house in Ruxton. It was featured in a full length article in Chesapeake Home. His true love and pride are reserved for his son Grey, for whom he coached soccer last year. From Bob Cole: “I’m totally bummed that I won’t be at the Reunion. Actually there is a remote chance that I can make it. If my doctor tells me I can’t get on a plane (long story, nothing dramatic) then I can stay in Baltimore and go. But chances are I’ll be in Mexico for a family wedding. “Anyway, I wanted to let you know that I’m there in spirit. When I saw the list of people attending, it really ticked me off that I won’t be there. Have a great, great time. I’m sure you will.” From Don Gettinger: “I will miss being at this reunion. I really enjoyed the last one. Attached is a picture of my wife, my daughter and [me] at a Chinese New Year celebration this year and another of us ice skating on fake ice last New Year’s Eve. My daughter Jianjia is now 9 years old. We adopted her from Shanghai. She is the light of our lives. “I am currently working as a holistic financial planner in Los Angeles, combining life coaching with financial advice. I help people look at their financial lives on several dimensions — material, psychological and spiritual (if appropriate) — ‘only in California,’ right?” John Gilpin was proud to see his daughter married this past year. And then John met a gal with a horse. Rafael Haciski has always been an adventurous soul from his early trips out West with John (Renneberg), Stewart (Wise) and Page (West) to more recent, civilized forms of mountain climbing. He and his wife Toddy went to Alaska where they explored the glaciers and even tried dog sledding. They also went to China. They have two sons and four daughters. Their first grandchild was joined quickly by three more. Rafael remains hopelessly carefree in Florida while Toddy holds the rest of the family together from Hunt Valley. [Note from HB: Rafael explained to me that he went to practice in Florida because the political economy of Maryland makes it so expensive for him to practice that he can’t earn enough here to put all those kids through college.] From [Harry’s] point of view, the best part of that arrangement is that [Harry] sees more of Toddy than of Rafael. From Toddy’s point of view, the best part of that arrangement is that she sees more of [Harry] than of Rafael.

We haven’t heard from Brad Harrison for ten years, when he told us of his exotic life in far off places. We can only hope that he and his lovely wife are still providing much-needed missionary work in China, or wherever they are. Julien Hecht sent along pictures of John Hebb, Dave Beaven, himself and some other members of the cast of “Flight into Danger,” which we staged in the Third or Fourth Form with Bryn Mawr. Bess Armstrong was the female lead. Julien writes: “Meanwhile, I continue to be General Counsel at DAP. Twelve years in that position. I live in Annapolis with my significant other of longstanding, Nancy Smit, and have come to enjoy life on the Bay greatly. Three kids — one with the energy consulting group at KPMG, another working on Capitol Hill with Senator Cardin and a third at University of Delaware. My parents are still alive and well in their late 80s, and my father continues to work with his antiques and fine arts appraisal business, going out to do appraisals three or four days a week. I see John Hebb and Bob Tickner every couple of months for lunch or dinner, and I see Bruce Eisenberg from time to time as well.” From Warren Marcus: “I live in Potomac, Md. After 17 years teaching mostly high school history and coaching, I joined the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in D.C doing teacher training on site and all over the country as well as other professional training, which I have been doing for 17 years so far. “Lisa and I have been married for 22 years. She works in computer sales, federal division. “I have fond memories of stringing pop tops and playing cards in the senior lounge; preparing and presenting the senior skit where we ditched the audience; imitating Mr. Pine and Mr. Dresser; wondering whether Mr. Boyd was an ex-CIA spy; and writing a terrible Fifth Form paper. Not to mention wrestling with the dress code and starting some involvement in political causes.” The longest and most interesting letter of our 40 years as alumni came from Derrick Matthews. “I was inspired to write when I saw our paltry little alumni column in the Spring Gilman Bulletin [2010]. Did not realize that it was our 40th class reunion this year until I read it in the Bulletin. I guess it must be true since I am now a grandparent times two. “I am the chief of pediatrics at Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre, an urban hospital treating a mixture of expatriates, middle class Tanzanians and poor Tanzanians with sponsors. I also do rounds and consultations at Selian Lutheran Hospital, a rural hospital treating the poor and medically indigent. I am the only full-time clinical pediatrician in the area. Most of my weekdays are 10 –12 hours. I work about three to six hours most weekends also. But I love what I am doing. I see a lot of strange cases, or here-and-now common cases that would be rare in the United States. I see many cases of severe pneumonia, the number one cause of death in kids in the rural hospital. Also see TB, dehydration due to vomiting/diarrhea, HIV/AIDS and malnutrition. The malnutrition is usually socioeconomic, that is, often the parents do not have enough to care for their children. Many of the families at the rural

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hospital are subsistence farmers or micro-business persons (selling stuff on the roadside or in the marketplace). In the absence of a lot of up-to-date medical technology here, much of my diagnosis is based on history and physical examination. The city has one CT scanner, which is down sometimes. There are only two MRI scanners in the whole country, both far away in Dar Es Salaam. I am considered a specialist, not a primary care provider because as a pediatrician I see only children. “I am also teaching pediatrics to assistant medical officer (AMO) medical students. AMOs are mid-level generalists more or less at the level of nurse practitioners. Because Tanzania has a great deficit in available MDs, especially competent ones (example: there are about 30 pediatricians in the entire country, 27 of them in Dar Es Salaam), there are several two-year medical schools for rapidly producing mid-levels to be deployed mainly in rural areas. I generally give a lecture every one to two weeks and do clinical teaching in the hospitals. “My wife Dorothy works for Catholic Relief Services in the area of HIV prevention and care of orphans and vulnerable children. She acts as a technical advisor to eight grant sites in seven countries in East Africa — Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Zambia and Botswana. Thus she travels a lot. It is always a blessing when she is able to stay at home with us, and I always thank God when she arrives back safely. Because there is so much emphasis on the use of condoms in HIV prevention, much of her focus is on abstinence and fidelity, although not to the exclusion of condoms. She is also trying to support attempts to take care of the orphans and children in the homes of relatives, rather than separating them off into freestanding orphanages. Unfortunately there is enough misfortune around to merit all approaches. “The older kids are all in the US. Our oldest was married last summer. He is returning to school at Georgetown to get his law degree. (As a doctor I get a slight chill just typing that!) Our next is now living in Birmingham, Ala. He seems to be enjoying his new job in admissions for a community college in that area. He is the father of our two grandkids. Our daughter lives in Baltimore now and works for the Maryland State Health Department. She got her master’s in health administration from University of Baltimore last spring. Our youngest, Devin, is 12 years of age and goes to school here and really enjoys it. He has made some very good friends here. We live in an area where he can go visit them when he wants since they live nearby. “We are all still struggling with Swahili, the official language of the country, but I can at least get by on simple things and medical exams. As you probably already know, the brain is not as plastic after 50 years of age. Maybe I will be fluent by the time I leave! “We do not know how long we will be in Tanzania since my wife’s grant runs out at the end of September. My volunteer stipend is not enough to cover our current expenses. All of our parents are now in their 80s. They have all gone through serious illnesses, but are now stable. The status of our parents will also be an important factor in how long we stay here.”

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In October, Derrick sent this update: “We have added Tanzanian interns to our teaching schedule at both hospitals. It is a rotating internship, where the interns rotate through four main specialties: internal medicine, pediatrics, general surgery and obstetrics-gynecology. Most of them are pretty bright. Later they may go on to specialize. “My wife’s grant has ended, but she continues to work for Catholic Relief Services. She is the director of a program within CRS called the ‘Faithful House.’ The program teaches African couples how to communicate better with each other. It has been shown to help couples stay together and be faithful to each other. The ultimate goal is to reduce the spread of HIV infection in marriages because of infidelity. She has a starter grant for a year and needs to raise funds to continue after that. So there is a lot of writing to be done on her part. So far she has worked with churches in Kenya, Liberia, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi and Gambia on this program. Central African Republic may be soon if local funding can be found.” From Chad Pistell: “We have survived 40 years after our graduation? That does not seem possible. I have known many classmates for 47 years, since I entered in the sixth grade. “Several years ago, my parents gave me a binder with childhood pictures, and my report cards all the way back to fourth grade. I sometimes get the binder out, and for humility look at the report cards. Ludlow’s comments are priceless. In many years, I struggled with at least one subject. It was a relief to graduate from Gilman. “I had several favorite teachers. I enjoyed John Merrill’s music class, Alex Armstrong’s English classes, Mr. Baldwin’s bible class and the math classes of my two favorite teachers — Ned Thompson and Charlie Gamper. I remember Ned taking the class to Goucher every Monday afternoon to run our computer programs. Duane Chase and I would count the number of times that Ned would say ‘notations’ in class. Thayer and others will remember that. Mr. Gamper would stand on the desk to make a point. ‘Now hear this!’ was his favorite expression. “Many years after graduation, I played doubles indoor tennis with Reg Tickner against my father and his partner. I served a ball squarely into the middle of Reg’s back. We all were laughing. I told him that I was glad that I had graduated long ago. Remember the paddle? Reg was truly an outstanding teacher and friend to us, too. “I suffered through five years of wrestling. I was lucky to have Reddy Finney as the heavyweight and J.V. coach. What an inspirational man he is. You would do anything for him. I would occasionally practice with him. He was always very kind to me, and never broke anything. After he became headmaster, he told me that he missed coaching and working out with us. When I was varsity heavyweight, I knew that he was suffering along with me. I imagine that he was impossible to sit next to at a match. I could not see him from my vantage point — looking up at the lights. Curiously, over the years, Ed Brown became friendlier to me. He must have felt sorry for me too. I hear that some students would

make bets on how fast I would get pinned. I never got my cut. “I have had careers in the military, insurance, cell phones and in the car industry. My wife and I moved to Galesburg, Ill., in late 2006 to be closer to her parents. We are active in our church, and in the Galesburg Community Chorus, where we sing two major concerts every year with our chorus and an orchestra. I currently chair the finance committee at our church, and we have our hands full this year. We get back to Baltimore about twice a year. I lost my father to cancer in the fall of 2009. Jan’s parents and my mother are all doing well. “We have a very diverse group in our class. As Bill Mueller said in our yearbook, we gave the faculty more grey hairs than any class in memory. We should celebrate ourselves, that we have made it this far in life with our own various successes. As for myself, I am basically an introvert, but because of the values and skills that Gilman taught me, I have been a leader in the military, and in three churches. We have all been blessed to have gone to such an outstanding school.” From Andy Quartner: “My oldest son graduated from Cornell; he is now working in New York City. My daughter is a junior at Cornell, and my youngest son is a junior at Maret School in Washington and loving life now that he has his license. I’m working as a corporate lawyer and have a few part-time positions, including general counsel of a private equity fund that has investments in China (Blue Ridge China) and a small private company in Boulder, Colo., Cellport Systems, Inc. My wife is a real estate broker.” From Bob Tickner: “In addition to my day job, I’ve been doing some work in television and the movies.” Harry reports that “on the back of the picture [Bobby] sent it says, ‘Actor/model; six feet tall; 44 long suit; 36 inch waist pants; 16.5 inch neck; 175 pounds’!? It also says he can act in a range from 35 to 45.” From Harry: “I am Harry. It’s not just a name, it’s a concept. For many years I’ve been trying to figure out who I am, where I fit in. I’ve tried many outward expressions of the inner schizophrenic. But they all seemed incomplete, dissatisfying — as if there should be something else in there. However, there was not. I went through a flamboyant phase that started about 45 years ago and may yet end. During my Country Western days we played at a town whose population was 178 if you entered from the North and 175 if you entered from the South. I’ve looked for my familial roots in Scotland where kilts and high definition cameras go hand in hand. Like many classmates, I sail, but only to race. Expresswave has had high point in the Glen Mar Racing Association many times over the past years. Some of you might be wondering what this is all about. The rest of you won’t. So happy 40th Reunion Gilman Class of 1970, possibly the strangest class that that school has ever produced.”

1974 Dave Seiler dseiler4@yahoo.com Tom Gamper writes that his daughter Hope is finishing her senior year of the International Baccalaureate program at City College, and then will be attending college. His son Noah attends Poly in the Ingenuity Program. Not only is Tommy running around a lot with family activities and architectural work, you may see him actually running! Tom has become a marathon man, and is training for the Boston Marathon in April with Gilman grad Pip Smith ’75. Those two are lucky to have Beth Gamper, Tom’s better half and, more importantly, a nurse, on their support crew. Greg Pinkard remains very happy with the past June wedding of his oldest daughter Katherine, and his checkbook is likely as happy that Greg’s youngest daughter Charlotte should graduate from Duke University in May. He is a partner in a new commercial real estate company (Obrecht Riehl & Pinkard LLC), with a focus in Baltimore County. Doug Antaya writes that his daughter Liz is spending her junior year abroad studying in Spain, and that his son Matt is a freshman at Villanova University. Bill Baker, with two boys attending Gilman, says that son Chase is in fourth grade and his teacher, Mr. Merrick, also taught Bill in fifth grade. We all know how well Bill turned out, so it’s great that Mr. Merrick can shape another Baker! Bill’s son Ian is acing third grade. I was not in town last June when Bill had a book signing at the Ivy Bookstore for his book “Endless Money.” Ross Pearce’s daughter Elizabeth is starting nursing school at the University of Maryland, and his second daughter Jessica enjoys working at T. Rowe Price. Judging by the photos Ross has posted on Facebook of his son Parker skiing, skating, riding, golfing and soccering, Ross and wife Holly are having way too much fun being parents of a fourth grader! Dave Emala says that his oldest daughter Nina is a 2010 graduate of Gettysburg College, is currently a Callard Fellow in the Gilman Lower School and coaches at Bryn Mawr. As for his three other children, Allie is a senior at Virginia Tech, Davey is a sophomore at Georgetown University and Ned is in the tenth grade at Gilman. Marty Himeles continues as the managing partner of the Baltimore office of Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, a national litigation law firm, where he really enjoys commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense. He dedicated a lot of time last year working on behalf of his former law partner and good friend, Gregg Bernstein, who was elected state’s attorney for Baltimore City. Marty was active in the campaign and the transition after that election, and spoke at Bernstein’s swearing in. Marty’s older daughter Elizabeth, a junior at Kenyon College, is spending a semester in Ghana. His younger daughter Charlotte is a senior at Garrison Forest, and his wife Paula enjoyed reliving the college application experience with her.

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The Class of 1975 happily marks its 35th Reunion at the home of Bonnie and Jonathan Farber.

Rick Curtis writes that the program he started, runs and has worked extremely hard to keep alive at Princeton, Outdoor Action, is being incorporated into the university system. The Outdoor Action freshman trip (last year 793 students on 94 different trips!) is a signature activity at Princeton, and 238 students went through a leadership training course for those hiking and climbing trips. Rick continues to speak about wilderness activity risk management, to bicycle around New Jersey, to telemark ski and to conquer the OA climbing wall at Princeton. Peter Bowe and wife Barbara are spending much of the year abroad in travel. They started 2011 in Argentina, and then travel to Cuba in February for another month. Next, they have airfare to Bangladesh and India, where they will be spending quite some time in both countries. Speaking of adventure, Andy Brooks and Clinton Daly traveled to Kenya to summit Mount Kilimanjaro last summer, accompanied by Andy’s three eldest and Clint’s two sons. That brings the head count of classmates that have climbed the highest mountain in Africa (19,300 feet) to three, Courtenay Jenkins having accomplished that difficult feat a few years ago. Climbing mountains keeps Andy in shape to direct equity trading as a vice president at T. Rowe Price, and more importantly, to chase after his two younger sons, who attend Gilman’s Lower School. Jim Lynn mentions that he saw Andy, as well as A.C. George and other classmates, at a book signing event for Chris White’s recently published “Skipjack.” “A great book. A must buy,” says Jim.

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Dave Seiler travels too much with his biomedical consulting activity, and has continuing success in keeping the tenants content in his rental property. And as it is my closing byline, where in the world is Jock Whittlesey? He reports that he, his wife Monique and son Philip left London in July 2010 and returned to Washington, D.C. After 17 years of living out of the country in U.S. government-provided residences, they purchased a house in Northern Virginia. Jock takes the metro at the East Falls Church station to the Environment Bureau at the State Department in Foggy Bottom, where he expects to work until 2013. After that, his next assignment will be following the environmental issues of Mexico at the State Department (as opposed to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City). His son Philip is in seventh grade, and spends a lot of time with the local Boy Scout troop, supported by active troop mom Monique. The bad news for Jock — he’s got to pay income taxes now!

1975 Joe Hooper hoopdedo2@earthlink.net Now that we’ve entered the era of “social networking”— Mark Zuckerberg as Time’s Person of the Year, the movie “The Social Network,” the best film (I saw) of the year — I have decided to make this year’s class notes an homage to Facebook. I didn’t actually visit any

classmates’ Facebook pages (wow, that site can burn a lot of time!). Instead, I took advantage of the next best thing, the virtual Facebook experience, the Class of ’75’s 35th Reunion this past October at Jonathan Farber and wife Bonnie’s Green Spring Valley home. I wandered around and recorded a handful of folks and only Kevin Kamenetz called me out for using old-school analog tape instead of a digital recorder, which apparently the rest of the world has switched to. “You’re really aging yourself,” says Kevin. “You’re an old fart. You know, one of the things we’re going to try to do in Baltimore County is to bring in technology, make things more efficient.” (Kevin was just weeks away from winning the election for Baltimore County Executive and clearly he’s got big plans.) I guess the other theme of the past year was hard times — the sluggish economy, partisan gridlock in Washington and all the rest. This year, even at this thoroughly enjoyable reunion party, members of the Class of ’75 didn’t shy away from contentious issues. “I’ve got a little bone to pick with you,” Brian Goodman announces. In last year’s notes, I had made a passing, and arguably slighting, reference to Brian’s work as the general manager of the Young Victorian Theatre Company, Baltimore’s Gilbert & Sullivan repertory company. Brian was having none of it. “You should have said, ‘The Young Vic is now Baltimore’s longest-tenured opera company.’ We just celebrated our 40th year and we have two endowments. We’re big time now. But hey, you know, it’s OK.” Brian is the head of litigation at the Baltimore law firm Hodes, Pessin and Katz and clearly knows something about making his case. With his full head of hair and salt-and-pepper goatee, he also cuts a credible figure as a show-biz impresario, so yes, it best be OK. He says the Young Vic has become such a timeconsuming success, he needs to groom a successor: “I tell people, it’s like handling another big case.” (Besides the skinny on light opera, Brian passes on some information about seldom-seen-at-recent-reunions Carl Offit, who he says lives in New Jersey, works in New York City, and is involved in software for banks. I know he doesn’t have a Facebook page.) If Brian was aggrieved (at first), Coca-Cola and Richmond’s Sandy McDonald was agitated, in the cheerfully pot-stirring Sandy Mac fashion. He had decided that not enough people had turned out for the party, which, after all, was something of monument to middle age — and that we should do something about it by the time the 40th comes around. I tell him I ran into Gerry Brewster (lawyer about town and our man on the Maryland Aviation Commission) on campus that afternoon, and that Gerry said he probably would have come to the party if someone had called him and urged him to go. “That’s just like Mack Ross!” Sandy exclaims. “I ran into him on the Elkridge Club golf course today and he asked me how I knew about this party. I said, ‘Mack, there were four or five e-mails.’ ” Facebook, that’s the future! (According to one party source, Mack had recently retired from Boys’ Latin where he’d been CFO.) Sandy suggested bringing back the boat that toured us around the Harbor for our senior prom (the Port Welcome?) as an inducement. (Seasickness, artificial hips, needs further study.) I say the 40th could use a

catchy theme, something that Dick Draper might come up with in the course of a Sterling-Cooper all-nighter: the last Gilman reunion you’ll go to before you’re officially old. Even if some were on the sidelines waiting for that engraved invitation, still, there is nothing like the reunion frisson of running into someone whom you may not have laid eyes on for 35 years, who knows nothing about what you’ve done in the intervening years and vice versa and yet, whether you care or not, in some real sense you know each other and you always will. The inner teenager doesn’t forget. For instance, I’m pretty sure Jon Farber and I haven’t spoken to each other since our Gilman graduation party (if then) but I enjoyed reconnecting with him at his own affair. Ian McFarlane (who runs his own environmental engineering firm out in Hunt Valley) had given me the low-down earlier in the evening, that of all our classmates, Jon had taken perhaps most the far-ranging journey from youthful passion to mature prosperity. I remember Jon the nature boy and the lacrosse player, and indeed, as a collegian at Oregon State, he’d more or less imported lacrosse to the Pacific Northwest, as a player for and first commissioner of the Pacific Northwest Lacrosse League. From that era, he says he remembers crosscountry van trips out West with Pip Smith. When they hit San Francisco, Pip would head south to L.A. and Jon would go north towards the high firs and beavers. (Jon says that Pip worked for years in the music distribution biz in California. Pip does have a Facebook page, with nice shots of him running, so future investigation is indicated.) After college, and conforming nicely to my Gilman image of him, Jon worked as a waterfowl guide on the Eastern Shore before moving on to the importing business, not lacrosse this time, but high-end Christmas decorations from Europe. The experience seems to have sobered him: “Over a two-year period I learned that you never want to be associated with retail or with seasonal retail. Two lessons.” Jon and affluence caught up with each other when he joined his old pal David Allan — yes, the Mr. Allan who taught some of us Spanish — at the Alex. Brown investment house, commencing a long, successful run there that two years ago morphed into his own firm, Passive Capital Management. “That doesn’t sound like a very inspiring name,” I say. “No, it’s the opposite of my personality,” he replies. “It means, we don’t pick individual stocks and we don’t pick active fund managers.” Apparently, in finance, if you don’t seek (too actively), you can find. With a look around the house, I venture, “So Wall Street has been good to you?” “Very.” Concerning family matters, Jonathan and Bonnie have three daughters, the eldest of whom learned Arabic at Middlebury and took a few career-advice meetings with Mackay Wolff, our class’s resident Arabist and UN-connected economic development and emergency-zone man. In an unrelated note, Jon tells me that Thomas Gray is a psychiatrist in Missoula, Mont. Intriguing. Success has many faces. After four diligent terms serving on the Baltimore County Council and then saturating the local airways with “Kevin for the County” television ads, local lawyer Kevin Kamenetz seemed a

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virtual lock as the next county chief executive. But even in the company of classmates who remembered him better as the obstreperous Gilman Newsman or as the guy who broke Cal Bond’s leg in Middle School soccer practice (no fault attached; Cal survived to become a science professor in North Carolina), he took nothing for granted. “What effort are you making to ensure your family votes Democratic?” he queries. I was more interested in the ads. How do his two kids, Gilman Lower Schoolers, feel about seeing their dad on television all the time? “They love it,” confides attractive wife Jill. Kevin adds, “I picked up my son at a birthday party and all the kids said, ‘Kevin! Hi!’ They didn’t say, ‘Mr. Kamenetz.’ So they had that comfort level.” And do his two kids treat him differently at home now that Dad is a rising political star? “No, when I come home I’m quickly put in my place,” Kevin says. “Very quickly,” Jill says with a smile. Was it an omen that our class’s heretofore most celebrated politico, former Maryland Congressman and Governor Bobby Ehrlich, was not in attendance? FYI out-of-towners: in the November general election, Bobby would fail to wrest the governorship back from Democratic incumbent Martin O’Malley; on the national front, one of the few Democratic successes in a revenge year for the GOP. Four years from now, we expect to see Bobby shaking hands onboard the Port Welcome now that the State House is officially off-limits for the 40th. The star who did show was John Nicholson, the man who goes by many names: John, Nick, Mick or, if you don’t happen to be a classmate, General Nicholson. John had been the Army’s highest ranking officer in southern Afghanistan, in charge of military operations in the Kandahar region, before being brought back to Washington to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s in-house think-tank on Afghanistan and Pakistan (its “Coordination Cell”). At Chez Farber, he told us that in a matter of weeks, he was going back to Afghanistan, to Kabul, along with his boss Gen. David Petraeus, responsible for the overall execution of the war. Nick flinches only slightly when he sees my tape recorder. The memory of Gen. McChrystal having been brought down by Rolling Stone and his own big mouth still lingers but when he sees I’m only packing analog tape, he knows he’s OK. And, for once, the news coming out of Afghanistan this past October wasn’t all bad. The Times had just reported that drone attacks on Taliban positions might be encouraging the less hard-core element to consider the negotiating table (I haven’t read anything so optimistic since.) “The idea is to apply pressure on the enemy until it gets so difficult to survive that he will see negotiation as the best way,” Nick says. “And we should remember that this is essentially a civil war. Ultimately it has to be a political reconciliation.” Lest this sound like a dutiful interview on “Charlie Rose” (and I’m sure he’ll take his best shot when the time comes), I note that Nick looks happy and relaxed, evidently digging being dropped back behind Gilman lines. On a recent, and first, trip to Baghdad: “Even that one time I was struck by how different it was, generals living in palaces. I’m thinking, ‘this is crazy,’ I prefer Afghanistan.’” Back there, Nick was probably the

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highest ranking U.S. officer living in tents and giving and receiving fire, a point brought home by Peter Lohrey, in from New Jersey, who visited the Nicholson family earlier in the day. “So Knobs came over and visited this afternoon,” Nick says. “He goes, ‘dude, weren’t you in a firefight last year when you were a general?’ And I go, ‘yeah.’ And my mom goes, ‘you were in a firefight?!’” Both Nick and Pete, it may be remembered, left Gilman for West Point but Knobs bailed after the introductory summer term. At the party, Pete, a former college professor of finance, sounds like his ex-students could have used a dose of West Point discipline: “I got frustrated teaching undergraduates. Young people don’t want to read, they don’t want to do their homework. And unfortunately people in academe don’t get paid enough. Now I work in industry as a consultant, and I’m not anybody special but I get paid twice what I made as a professor, in a good year, four times as much.” Bill Miller drops by to congratulate Nick on his next general’s star (“It’s working its way through the process,” Nick says), and I catch up on Bill’s former adventures in minor league baseball. Bill was the stadium manager and groundskeeper for the Durham Bulls, the team deliriously fictionalized in the Kevin Costner sports flick, “Bull Durham.” You can catch up on that chapter in Bill’s life by renting the recent Blu-ray/DVD Special Edition of the film, specifically the featurette, “Between the Lines: The Making of Bull Durham,” in which he has a speaking part. I’d like to see Bill and Brian Goodman hook up on a new project. And then there are those ’75ers trying to make a difference at the grassroots level. In a city as poor and troubled as Baltimore, there is no shortage of opportunity and frustration. I hadn’t seen Eddie Simms since our Gilman News days. Now, he’s with the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development Administration: “The idea is to create decent safe housing. How are you going to go to school and learn anything if your pipes are dripping and you’re getting attacked in the hallways and they’re selling dope downstairs? The whole nine yards.” Eddie says he’s been involved in housing since college, which for him began at Colgate and ended up at Loyola. “I was a radical during the ’70s so they [Colgate] kicked me out,” he says. Who knew? Selwyn Ray jumps in. (And for some of us, that is the iconic image of Selwyn, leaping off the wall lockers in our form room, captured in a Cynosure yearbook photo.) “We’re talking about how confused young people are,” he says, “and the reason why they are confused is we bombard them with negative information, horrific facts and statistics, and really don’t surround them with an atmosphere that’s comforting. The only way young people can meet the challenge is to meet one or two adults who have some sense of love in their hearts. And I really mean that. And I’m one of them.” Selwyn is walking the walk most recently as the executive director of the Maryland Mentoring Partnership, which just recently merged with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Central Maryland. “I love what I’m doing,” he says. “I trained as an attorney.

James Stovall ’76

With the untimely death of actor, playwright, director and producer James Stovall ‘76, Gilman School — and Broadway — lost one of its brightest stars. Stovall died of heart failure at New York Presbyterian Hospital on September 25, 2010. He was 53. James was truly a “working actor,” dedicated to his craft and its many facets. A 27-year veteran Broadway performer, he was scheduled to appear in the York Theatre Company’s developmental lab staging of the new musical “Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda: A Jazz Musical Comedy” at the time of his death. He debuted on Broadway as a standby for three roles in legendary director and choreographer Bob Fosse’s shortlived 1986 musical “Big Deal”; he later joined Fosse’s final production “Sweet Charity.” In 2009 he appeared in the Broadway revival of “Finian’s Rainbow,” as Willie, Preacher, Second Gospeleer, and understudy for Chuck Cooper’s character, Bill. Other Broadway credits include lead roles in “Ragtime” (as a replacement in the lead role of Coalhouse Walker Jr. after appearing in the Los Angeles and Chicago companies); “The Life”; “The Rocky Horror Show”; and, “Once on This Island.” Off-Broadway credits include “Dessa Rose,” “Stars in Your Eyes” and “Romance in Hard Times.” James was also involved in cultural arts at large. He lent his talents to community events such as the African Burial Ground National Monument and the American Museum of Natural History’s Kwanzaa and Black History Month celebrations. He served as artist-in-residence at the Dwyer Cultural Center; he was a founding member of the Actor’s Fund New Leadership Committee; and, he gave four years of service as executive director of Ministry of the Arts & Culture at the United Palace Theatre in Harlem, home to “Nativity: A Life Story,” which he co-wrote, produced and directed. James’s parents, mother Ella, a music teacher in Baltimore City Schools, and father Rev. James Stovall Sr., pastor

of the Full Gospel Church of Cooksville, Md., determined that their son would be educated in an academically rigorous environment, which led them to Gilman. “When Jimmy and I were at Gilman, there were probably only 10 or 12 African-American students, so we all became very close,” said classmate Michael Austin in a Baltimore Sun obituary. “What you remember about him was that voice.” “That voice” was evident from the time James was very young. His mother Ella recognized his musical gifts by age four. He began studying voice and piano at the Peabody Conservatory as a child. When he was 13, he joined the Urban Musical Theatre, based at Morgan State University, where his first dance teacher was Debbie Allen, who was then a student at Howard University. A 1981 graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, where his classmates included Spike Lee and Samuel L. Jackson, James received his Equity card during his sophomore year while performing at the Alliance Theater. His first major directing job was in Atlanta, directing “Black Nativity” by Langston Hughes. The play is now an Atlanta holiday tradition. Following his father’s footsteps, James was also an ordained minister. James Stovall is survived by his father, Rev. James Stovall Sr.; sister Donna Stovall Jefferss and nieces Micaela Morales and Domanique Jefferss.

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Couldn’t do it. Would have lost my mind.” His best story doesn’t come from his day job but an informal mentoring relationship he developed with a then 12-year-old boy, now a grown man: “He came up to me and said, ‘If it wasn’t for you, I’d be dead or in prison.’ I cried. And then I said, ‘you left out one thing, big-time drug dealer, because you had all the elements.’ The police used to constantly harass him because he’s dark-skinned, used to wear a hat and he lived in the neighborhood so they’d say, ‘where the f--- are you goin’?’ So he’d come to me complaining. Now he talks to the police and they don’t curse at him anymore. I went to visit him a month-and-a-half ago, and a cop drove by and waved to him, and I said, ‘You listened to me!’” Selwyn and I compared notes on the new and improved Carey Hall that I’d seen for the first time that afternoon, running into Brian Benninghoff (commercial real estate in Bethesda) and David Morton (another Jersey resident with a new job at Wells Fargo), the three of us conducting our own little alumni self-tour. It was impressive, maybe a little too impressive. I was filled with what the French (or maybe just American comp lit professors) called nostalgie de la boue, a longing for the grittier bad old days when we lived in those basement form rooms — the battleship gray paint, the exposed pipes and wires — and weren’t being as assiduously groomed for academic and athletic success as today’s more stressed-out, if more elegantly housed, student generation. “I agree with you Hoops,” Selwyn says. “My daughter is being overworked at St. Timothy’s.” He reminded me about the little basement side room where we spent our Fifth Form (I think) year. It would have looked in place on “The Wire.” “It was real,” he says. There is a world outside the Farbers’ living room and one little fragment of it, the ’75 Gilman-in-New York posse, collected at the Mercury Bar in Hell’s Kitchen in early January to watch the Ravens beat the Chiefs in the opening round of the NFL playoffs. Non-profit maven Tom Miller and Wall Streeter Andy Kaufman compulsively analyzed the finer points of Joe Flacco’s quarterbacking technique with one bar source alleging that Kaufman was ready to throw Flacco and the entire Ravens team under the bus until they came roaring back in the second half. Mackay Wolff kept his sanity talking with David Morton and Tom’s youngest daughter Julie, a sophomore at College Park and apparently not as fanatical a Ravens’ fan as eldest daughter Sara, a Northwestern senior. I recall watching a more typical Ravens playoff defeat a few years ago at Tom’s house and I helpfully offered to Sara that it didn’t matter so much because the Ravens were after all a bunch of thugs (I’m a New York Giants fan). That’s what made the Ravens so great, Sara replied, their existential intensity, one moment they could be contending for the Super Bowl, the next, in prison. Jonathan Pine, in medical publishing in Baltimore and present and accounted for at the Farbers, is another conduit to the larger world. He reached out via e-mail to Watty Galleher, lawyering in Denver, who replied thusly: “Sorry I missed out on this. My wife and I just got back last night from a trip to Turkey to explore and visit our youngest daughter, who teaches and takes classes at the university in Ankara. It was pretty wild.

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I’m sad I missed the reunion. It’s hard to believe how fast the past ten years flew by since the 25th — which was the last time I saw you and any of our Gilman buddies. Way too long! Hope the reunion was fun. Take care and enjoy your son’s high school sports career (it goes by too fast).” Jonathan also provided me with a link to my father Dr. Joe Hooper, who died this past year and who, as one of the team doctors for the football team during our era at Gilman, deserves, I think, a place in these notes. “In 1990,” J.P. wrote me, “a few months before I was married, my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. Your father operated on her a few weeks before the wedding and got her in good enough shape to enjoy all the festivities. She has been cancer-free ever since.” Reiley McDonald, who today brokers racehorses in Lexington, Ky., and Chris Hutchins, who formerly owned Bacharach Rasin sporting goods in Baltimore, have both told me that it meant a lot to them, more than I would have guessed, to have my father watching their backs when they played football for Gilman. At the reunion, I collected without trying quite a few stories of parental decline and fall, this being a feature of middle-aged life that’s hard to avoid. As for our own continuation on the planet, we as a class have been lucky, not immune to premature demise, but lucky. So it was with particular shock that we registered the recent loss of Jim Stovall, a talented Broadway performer, a devoted churchman and a lovely soul. Jim graduated in ’76, but he had good friends in our class, not the least being the New York posse who, because they are so absurdly over-represented at Manhattan alumni functions, were pleased to make him an honorary member of ’75. As the years pass, we will continue to circle the wagons.

1976 John Wharton jw213@yahoo.com The preparations for our class’s 35th Reunion coupled a strong committee with new forays into online social networking, beginning about a year before the actual event, but our enthusiasm was tinged with grief from painful loss. The tragic death of a classmate’s son in early September was followed at the end of the month by word that Jim Stovall had passed. Jim had excelled as a highly-respected Broadway musical theater actor, and his death brought forth tributes from his peers, family and friends who recalled Jim’s beautiful singing. ”What you remember about him was that voice,” Mike Austin told The Baltimore Sun, noting that they were among about a dozen students at the forefront of AfricanAmerican enrollment at Gilman. Several classmates attended Jim’s memorial service. During those school years, Jim clearly was the big-hearted guy who knew how to have fun, coax it away from getting out-of-hand and make everyone feel welcome to be a part of it all.

Frank Rosenberg writes that he and his wife Ann, following their son Brent’s death, had been “touched immensely by the empathy of my Gilman classmates and the extended Gilman family. Gilman is truly a special community.” Dixon Harvey wrote that he was “really thankful for family and friends and especially for our class of wonderful people who have come out of the woodwork this fall to support each other and our families in tragic times.” Our fall e-mail thread also focused on speed cameras at north Baltimore intersections, and the contributions of members of our class who graduated elsewhere, particularly the stellar participation of Jim Grieves and Henry Thomas in the alumni golf tournaments. Arthur Cromwell checks in with an account of his many years of missionary work in Haiti, Columbia, Mexico and Honduras. The calling has “left me in a different world than many of you, financially speaking,” he writes, “but it has been a joy working with the church in places that most of us would prefer not to go, and it’s been a privilege. Though we were all blessed with a great education and wealth that gave us all many opportunities, even with my grad degree from Hopkins, etc. seminary studies, I’ve always told my friends that my poor Haitian friends taught me the most — courage, faith, love of neighbor and sharing even to the point of giving one’s life.” Arthur and his wife Isa visited her family in Venezuela last December. His son Jon taught snowboarding as he went through his last year at Towson University, and his son Ben also is working his way through college in Baltimore. “I gave up a fortune about 30 years ago with no regrets after my first mission trip to Haiti,” Arthur says, “so my sons learned the value of money without the ease that many of us knew as young men.” Arthur closed with a hope that he may one day be able to call on a few of us to offer some help for his friends in Haiti. Roszel Thomsen writes that his son Philip is “graduating” from the Middle School at Gilman this year, while his daughters, Meghan and Caroline, are a junior at Harvard and a freshman at Georgia Tech, respectively. “I am still the President of the Board at Roland Park Country School, just across the bridge, so I visit one or both campuses most days.” Bill Spragins describes his good fortune in that the construction industry sectors he primarily works in have been somewhat stable and were well funded before the economic collapse. He is still implementing a business pragmatic form of teambuilding/issue resolution on major construction projects, and he wrapped up a very successful renovation of the Los Angeles airport’s international terminal last spring. He’s now working on waterworks projects in New York, a hospital project in Oakland, large highway projects in Kansas City and Dallas and a recently-contracted major rail-works project and hospital project in Denver, allowing him to work from home for a change. “For fun,” Bill writes, “a group of friends and I did a week-long bike tour in May of Tuscany through the Chianti region before hopping a train to Rome for a long weekend there. We did not participate in any gladiator games at the Forum as there were no big kitties

to be seen, but we did manage to hike to the top of St. Peter’s. I then headed down through Naples and onto a ferry across to the Island of Capri for a few days.” With his ankle healed, Bill played long-stick middie in a 40+ lacrosse league (Super Masters) last spring, “which was merely the warm-up for the 50+ (Grand Masters) annual national Vail tournament in late June. The Hobart team (NY) brought all of their All-Americans from the ‘70s and whupped up on everyone for a second straight year. Our team finished in the middle of the pack; we believe with a few attackmen (Heubeck, Swerdloff and Thomas, are you there?) and a few midfielders (calling on Campbell, Volk, Ward, Graham and any others?), we can challenge for the title, as we finished just one goal short of making the final a few years ago. Not a bad deal — perfect weather in the Rockies, lacrosse by morning, golf at any number of courses or poolside for the afternoon, can’t be beat! Who’s in???” In addition, Bill reports, he caught a crystal-clear long weekend with endless stars by night in Moab, Utah, in October. “We mountain biked in an area that was captured in a few scenes from the movie ‘127 Hours,’ but the good news is none of us had to saw our arms off to get out of there.” Nick Richardson responds that “unlike Bill Spragins’s alumni news, there are no blue photos of the Mediterranean Sea in the background for my update, I’m afraid. Nothing but mundane news in the Richardson household.” Nick’s son Matthew, 18, graduated from Gilman last June, and Nick notes, “They still wear white pants and blazers and line up on the steps for the class photo. Some things don’t change. At Baccalaureate, Anton Vishio gave the keynote address, the first two minutes in Latin, as he retired last year. Matthew assures me that Anton has mellowed quite a bit in the last 30 years.” Matthew went on to William & Mary that fall, and he was home for winter break to fill the house with his friends, again. “Several nights this week,” Nick wrote in December, “half a dozen of his Gilman classmates have dropped by for the evening and into the wee hours; clearing out our refrigerator, sharing stories about their respective college experiences and blowing up people, aliens and the world on the multiple Xboxes that seem to have proliferated in our basement club room.” Nick’s son Will, 14, is a freshman at Gilman and played JV volleyball this year, which Nick describes as “a great spectator sport! It is a terrific addition to Gilman’s sports lineup. Great kids, great coaches, great matches!” Nick’s wife Anita is still with the FDA, for 20 years now, while he is still in the topsy-turvy world of commercial lending. “My present employer (Wilmington Trust) hit a pothole that turned into a sinkhole, in some real estate deals in Delaware. As a result, the bank is in the process of being acquired by M&T Bank. What is the ancient Chinese curse: ‘May you live in interesting times’? I expect the first part of 2011 to be quite ‘interesting,’ for better and for worse. I guess that I was due. I’ve been in banking for the past 27 years, and it will be my first time to have my employer be acquired. I have to admit that I am not looking forward to it, but with luck the acquisition by a

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There was much to celebrate at the Class of 1980 reunion—30 years, plus Jim Franklin and John Zentz winning the MacKenzie Cup (low-net twosome) at the Alumni Golf Outing. The class held its 30th Reunion at the home of Barbara and Latimer Naylor.

reputable financial institution will provide me with new opportunities.” Nick writes that he and Blazer Catzen “have managed to find the time to get together to play our guitars and down a few cold ones, a couple of times. I’m hoping that we make that happen more often in 2011. It’s great fun to get together with a classmate, sharing a common interest that we never knew we had.” Reflecting on the year’s most painful events for our class, Nick concludes, “It was somehow reassuring to see the number of classmates that came together to provide support for Frank and his family and for Jim’s family. I expect that they felt as impotent as I did. What can one really do? What does one say when no words could ever be adequate? How could one really be a help? I like to think that just being in evidence, or even sending an e-mail or a simple card, showed that we were there if anyone needed us and that our thoughts and prayers were with them.” Brook Behner and his family have been back in their home for about a year since their big renovation, but they are still busy settling back in, hanging pictures and unpacking things they forgot they had. This past summer, they enjoyed a family week in the Outer Banks. “Will [son] and I spent four days backpacking the New Hampshire White Mountains. We climbed Mt. Washington and three other presidents.” Your Southern Maryland correspondent cut and pasted this collection on a rainy but unseasonably warm second day of 2011, as the ice melted away on Kingston Creek. The 15-year-old GEO Tracker sat in the driveway, its tags now transferred to a 2006 Toyota Solara convertible, a reasonable midlife crisis mobile. Linda was off at a morning yoga class, as I prepared for Monday’s three-mile commute to continue a 26th year of pestering cops and napping in court for The Enterprise newspaper. The tenor uke awaited tuning and a little practice before Sunday evening’s monthly country jam session at the senior center in Charlotte Hall.

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1980 James Franklin jim@franklin-group.com The highlight of our year was our 30th Reunion party held at Latty Naylor’s refurbished five-story home in Bolton Hill. Latty did an amazing job with his home as it doubles as his art studio. For those that could not attend the event, you missed a wonderful night of renewing friendships. I do know there were several members of our class that participated in the Alumni Golf Outing the day before but were not able to make the party. John Zentz and I won the Mackenzie Cup for the third time. John shot a career-low 68 and did not miss a shot all day. It was really fun to watch. Apparently he did not need my 74 either. John is doing well in St. Louis as an executive with Hunter Engineering. If you are out in St. Louis and want to play golf, give him a call as he just joined Bellerive Country Club. It was nice seeing Peter Pozefsky again. Peter teaches at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He has two young children, ages 5 and 2. I know your pain, Peter, and I’m happy someone has children younger than mine! They do keep us feeling young though. Paul Hazlehurst was in attendance. I spotted young Dillingham chatting with our old science teacher, Bob Smith. Mr. Smith would always call Hazel and me by our middle names in school. Paul has been very busy in 2010 with his new law firm. I bumped into Steve Plunkert at the Reisterstown Sportsplex a day after seeing him at the reunion. His son was playing hockey on one side while my daughter was playing lacrosse goalie on the other.

Paul Danko was there as well. His son Paul, Jr. ’10 is a freshman at the University of Denver and is playing lacrosse there. His one daughter Molly is a sophomore at Bryn Mawr while his youngest is in seventh grade at Calvert. David deMuth was a prominent participant at the Alumni Golf Outing and attended the party as well. David’s son Charlie is in seventh grade and is giving wrestling a try and his son Will, hopefully, will give wrestling a shot as well. I am sure they will do well if they inherited any of the deMuth genes at all. Now if they start golfing. . . . Jay Hergenroeder moved to Monkton with his wife Kate and their dog Dewey. They also have a horse, Sweet Maggie. It was nice catching up with Jay. He is doing well at Grey and Sons. Mark Hillman, Steph Jackson and I got together along with our better halves at Lewnes’ Steak House in Annapolis. Mark is still a sailing machine and again placed third at the J-24 National Championships. His funds enjoyed the market rebound in 2010 and dramatically beat his benchmarks. In the summer, he lives aboard his cruising boat in Annapolis and hopes some classmates come down to sail with him. Steph is tearing it up at T. Rowe Price and has found a company that truly appreciates his talents, of which there are many. In his spare time, he can be found on the BCC golf course working on his golf swing. Paul Bierman was at the reunion as well. He was hoping for all the snow we received last year to make it up to Vermont this past winter. Paul, from your mouth to Mother Nature’s ear. Bill Atkins and I were the only Class of ’80 members to attend last year’s Bull Roast. Let’s try and get a better turnout, boys. Owen Callard is in Melbourne, Fla., and has become a surf junkie. Sebastian Beach had the best waves in Florida that I recall, so I am sure Owen has been there numerous times. Hang ten, brother! Mark Licht and Stuart Matthai were first-hand witnesses to the awesome display of golf from John Zentz. Mark can be seen at my office every so often teaching my dad how to turn on his computer and read his e-mails. One day we hope Mark will teach him how to reply to an e-mail instead of printing it and writing a note on it. I was sorry Alan Livsey did not make the trip from London for the reunion. I guess his hedge fund is keeping him busy. Alan, we don’t want to wait another 10 years before we cross paths again. The last I heard from Bill Trimble was that he parred the 12th hole at Augusta National. Bill, you are my hero. Captain Steve Snyder was at the reunion as well. Steve is still flying and living in Virginia Beach. And then there is Gerard “TJ” Woel. He lives in Philly and teaches MMA (mixed martial arts). I was sorry he was unable to attend the reunion because he had to work. Come on, big fella, you can get time off for our next reunion, right? It has been too long, so come down for a visit. As I said earlier, my oldest daughter Lexi plays goalie in lacrosse and has made her travel team. She is 11

and doing quite well. My middle child Mackenzie is 9 and tearing up the basketball courts in the winter. My little guy Garrett is 5 and will start baseball this year. If his baseball swing is anything like his golf swing, watch out! My beautiful bride Emma is going back to school now that all three of our children are in school. She has been doing really well, and I am proud of her. As for me, I have six more courses to play to complete the Golf Digest Top 100. I am hoping 2011 will be that year.

1981 William Moore willy@southwaybuilders.com Well gents, here we are, another year gone, and who would have thought, our 30-year anniversary is upon us. Word is that the timing of this event has moved from the usual coordination around Homecoming festivities to be held in the spring of this year. So if these notes do not come to print until sometime after said event, then I hope we all had a great time! We have 27 classmates logged as members of the Gilman School Class of 1981 group on Facebook. Of the 27, I heard from Dave Gomer, who up until about 10 years ago had lived in Catonsville and developed some properties around Patterson Park in Baltimore City. I inquired about his whereabouts, and he reported in February 2010, “We sold out of Maryland and headed ‘down de oshun hun’ and have been living in Cape Charles, Va., since September 2001. The real estate market was kickin’, and I was doing several developments and what have you until the bottom fell out. At this point, we are cash poor and real estate rich if you can call it that, as you know. Two kids: Nick, 12, soccer stud (so he thinks) and Kate, 9, tomboy extraordinaire. They both go to Broadwater Academy, which in no way shape or form even comes close to Giltech.” Also through Facebook, I reconnected with former classmates Wayne Ryker, Greg Montague and even Luke Lancaster. Wayne is listed as an owner/operator of Ironheart Enterprises and lives in Hawaii. I believe Greg lives on the Eastern Shore, and judging from his pictures, he is still an active hunter. Luke graduated from Duke in 1984, then from UVA for radiology in 1994. He lives in Crozet, Va., where he practices at Rockingham Radiologists LTD. Another former classmate and Facebook user is Tom Kingston. TK went off to BL after leaving us in middle school. He next went to St. Mary’s College, and then got his MBA at Loyola. Just prior to starting at St. Mary’s, he and I drove in a 1976 Dodge Aspen station wagon through 27 states in 40 days on an around-the-Country whirlwind adventure. He is one of two owners of Skillforce, a temporary trade labor business that centers on the construction industry. He and his wife Christine have two daughters and live near Monkton. Another social media site, LinkedIn, is a bit like Facebook, but geared exclusively toward the work environment. Through LinkedIn, I stumbled upon Bobby Greenfeld’s bio. He notes the following, “I am an

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intellectual property attorney with 14 years of experience at top-tier law firms, primarily in the areas of patent litigation, prosecution and client counseling. My experience includes all aspects of litigation, from case management and pre-litigation evaluation to motion practice, trials and appeals.” Clearly Bobby’s knowledge base is broad, and that must have served him well to gain entrance as a contestant on the game show “Jeopardy” back in 2003. He was the points leader going into the final round, and lost on a difficult question about placement of a Rubik’s Cube at the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville. Why would anyone know anything about the 1982 World’s Fair exhibitions anyway? Congratulations to Mac Ford, who in October 2010 was inducted into the Lacrosse Hall of Fame, joining fellow classmate Del Dressel, who was honored in 2002. The formal bio on the US Lacrosse website notes the following about Mac: “Harry McNamara ‘Mac’ Ford (North Carolina ’85) will be inducted as a truly great player. Ford was an attackman for Gilman School (MD) where he received All-American (1981), All-MSA (1981) and All-Metro (1980, 1981) accolades. Ford helped lead his school to the MSA Championship in 1981. At North Carolina, Ford was an All-American first (1985) and second (1984) team member as well as All-ACC in 1984 and 1985. He received the ACC Player of the Year award (1985) and captured an NCAA Division I National Championship in 1982. Ford was a member of the professional team, Baltimore Thunder, which won the inaugural Eagle Pro Box title in 1987. A member of the championship U.S. Men’s National Team in 1990, Ford was voted Best Attackman and to the All-World Team. In 2006, Ford was inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse Greater Baltimore Chapter Lacrosse Hall of Fame.” Henry Gallaher adds, “I had a fabulous time attending Mac Ford’s induction ceremony into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame on October 30 with my parents. It was so great catching up with the Fords, Kathy and Bob Blue and Tori and Sandy Brown. Things are good with me. In September, I started a new job as residential sales manager for Environmental Waste Solutions, LLC, based in beautiful Golden, Colo. My wife Kim and I also recently entered into the joyous parenting stage of empty nester-hood. My stepsons Chris, 19, and Nick, 21, are students (freshman and junior, respectively) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. They love college life, and we love the fact that they love college life.” And speaking of Bobby Blue, Caroline and I had the pleasure of spending a week in August with Bobby and Kathy at Squam Lake in New Hampshire. Caroline and I have spent the first week in August with Stuart Matthai ’80 and his family at an old Adirondack camp for the last 20 years, and Bobby and Kathy happened to sign on for the same week as ours. We got Bobby up waterskiing for the first time in years, and his three kids Robby, Caroline and Ellie had many hours of tubing fun on the lake. Joe Morelos, or Dr. Joe, writes the following after last year’s notes, “so much info! Of course, I think my patient died while waiting for me while I read the notes, but he had lousy insurance anyway. (Just kidding!) I can’t believe that Frank DeCosta didn’t write in and tell

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of the great lunch he had with me where we met halfway in Cherry Hill, N.J., but so it goes . . . LOL! I promise to throw in some nonsense of my nonsensical life next time.” Joe . . . I am still waiting for your nonsense. Tom Hoblitzell writes, “Not much to report other than winning the Powerball lottery . . . just kidding . . . wouldn’t want all these people asking for a handout! My oldest son Tyler, Gilman Class of ’09, is a sophomore at the University of South Carolina and my youngest Alec, Gilman Class of ’11, has just been accepted at Skidmore to play on the tennis team. Other than that, I am just “living the dream!” Marcus Ranum continues to amaze and amuse. He reports, “I suppose you could say I have the world’s largest walk-in closet: I bought an elementary school, and I use it as a wood shop, storage area, studio, darkroom and classroom. You might get a kick out of some of the stuff I’ve been doing. I’ve been shooting wet-plate photos using H Fox Talbot’s ambrotype process from the 1840s. I’m flowing my own glass plates with nitrocellulose and ether (yum!) and clearing them with cyanide (not yum!) — It’s a cool look and a lot of fun.” Marcus shared some digital images of a few of those glass plate photos, and they are stunning! One could easily be convinced the images were created before or around the Civil War. And as to the amusing part, when I asked about any accomplishments, Marcus replied, “My accomplishment is that I continue to have avoided breeding? :)” Leonard Frenkil adds, “All has been well in the Frenkil household; we have been incredibly blessed with good health and happiness. Paula and Len celebrated their youngest grandson’s second birthday in Charleston, S.C., where they have a getaway to escape the Baltimore snow! Willy Moore, Steve ’98 and Jake Beverage ’94 joined in Len’s Raven road trip to Houston for Monday Night Football (and a victory!) If you want to join in future trips, drop Len an e-mail. The referenced trip was Len’s 8th annual Ravens Road Warrior trip, and we all had a blast. Over the years, Len has put together this group of people that has grown to 36 participants. They pick one away game per year and get a real sense of the local flavor from wherever they go. If you would like to take Len up on his offer and join the fun, but do not have his e-mail address, contact me and I will gladly get you connected. Andy Rich shares, “It’s been lonely up here in Jersey this fall as I am the sole Ravens fan (save and except Flacco’s mom). By the time of this printing I trust that they will have emerged victorious from the Cathedral in Dallas [sadly not so]. As far as the Rich family . . . Carrie, my wife, and I are celebrating (at least I am) our 17th anniversary. We live in West Windsor, which I refer to as Princeton to out-of-staters (or pretty much anyone to whom my intelligence is not rather obvious). We’re blessed with two girls — Chelsea, who just started high school and takes after her mom with straight A’s in a highly competitive school system, and Haley, 11, who has decided to abandon all the organized sports that her dad was coaching (imagine that), and she has been mothered and mentored by Carrie in tennis. She is ranked #2 in New Jersey for her age group and

A win in overtime only added to the fun when (left to right) Steve Beverage ’98, Jay Beverage ’94, Willy Moore ’81 and Len Frenkil ’81 attended the Ravens/ Texans Monday Night Football Game in Houston on December 13, 2010. Steve and Jay live in San Francisco; Willy and Len in Baltimore.

somewhere on the map nationally. Do you believe there is also a college recruiting ranking for 11 year olds? Yeah, I’d have been on that back in the day (or maybe not). I’m more worried about college coaches texting her than boys. We give a shout out to all my classmates and hope that this note finds you and your families happy and well.” After my annual Raven football ribbing to class Steeler fan David Ritmiller, he wrote, “Girls made the big move this year. Joei to junior high and Desirae to high school, still hitting the hard courts hard. Des is like her old man on the mat, playing varsity as a freshman! My wife Jackie, best mom ever, keeps things together and still puts up with me.” Jim Cavanaugh writes, “Life in Portland, Maine, is good. I continue with my research and teaching in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of New England. Deb mixes work as a physical therapist with volunteering for AARP doing people’s taxes. Ben, 20, is a sophomore at Pitt and seeks to major in athletic training. Kate is a high school junior and starting her college search. We are delighted to report that our year was entirely uneventful. No major health issues. Nobody died. We traveled some (Quebec City, Pittsburgh, Bretton Woods, N.H.). We bought a snow blower. Our dog scratched a lot for a while and then stopped. Flowers bloomed. Snow fell. We cried. We laughed. We hugged. We saw the good in people.” When I asked Jim about what type of research he was performing, he said, “I’m currently working on two projects: one involves studying the outcome of getting critically ill older adults, hospitalized at Maine Medical Center in Portland, up and moving earlier than is typically done in common practice. The second involves tracking differences in the development of disability between folks with Parkinson disease who are physically active and those who are sedentary.”

Tom Finney reports, “Where do I begin . . . I think last year I mentioned I was in my eighth year with Wilmington Trust as a managing director for the Baltimore office. Well, in April 2010, I left Wilmington and took the market executive position for US Trust in Baltimore. This decision has turned out to be the best I could have made given that Wilmington blew up under the commercial mortgage pressures and was subsequently sold to M&T in October. I guess everything happens for a reason. I now have an office of 30 professionals and $5 billion in assets. Business is very good. Daughter Georgie is in seventh grade at RPCS and son Tom is in fifth grade at Gilman. Both are thriving and make my wife Virginia and I very proud to be parents. So let’s see what next year brings, but until then . . . life is great in the Finney house!” Billy Thomas chimes in, “Life in San Francisco is excellent. Moreover, since the World Series Champion Giants have the same color scheme as the O’s, I kind of felt like we were back home. But then I realized that we were at the World Series, which might be quite a while for the Baltimore folks. We have sent our oldest off to Boston University and are 1 1/2 years away from being empty nesters. Then let the parties begin, but oh no, maybe after the college tuitions are paid. Sally is getting her second master’s and I am having a blast with my emerging ETF business. Despite the year-round golf and occasional earthquake, sure is a great place to be.” As for me, life has been very good. My wife Caroline and I enjoy heavy workloads, teenage boys and more frequent date nights. Caroline continues to grow her real estate development business (Ekistics) and my general contracting business (Southway Builders) had the good fortune to actually grow through the horrible economy. We had our usual compliment of projects in the Baltimore metropolitan area, and we have gone as far west as Hagerstown, where we are building a new

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Legendary Gilman Coaches Alex Sotir (left) and Nick Schloeder with participants in the Alumni Flag Football game.

four-story elderly apartment building. We even had a presence in Pennsylvania and Delaware, where we have been building some Royal Farms stores. Our boys Henry and Ben are rapidly approaching their father in height; Henry at 17 is now 6 feet, one-and-a-half inches and Ben at 14 is almost already 6 feet, one inch. They both enjoy their time at Friends School: Henry is a junior and plays safety and wide receiver in football (he has already been named captain of next year’s team) and attack in lacrosse, while Ben in eighth grade is a QB in football, is #2 in scoring and #1 in assists in basketball and is throwing 70 mph as a lefty pitcher in baseball. In 2010 Caroline and I celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary; wow, how time flies when you’re having fun! As previously mentioned, since you will likely be reading this well after our 30th Reunion, I will take the opportunity now to thank John Worthington for graciously offering to host our event at his wonderful historic restaurant, The Harryman House. Having been there many times before, I know it will have been the perfect complement to our gathering. So that’s it for now. Please consider sharing your own story for next year’s notes. This has been my 10th year as your classless secretary, and I do hope you enjoyed the read. Drop me a line at willy@southwaybuilders.com, Facebook or LinkedIn; I will enjoy hearing from you. My best regards to you all.

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1982 A. Brian C. Doud abcdoud@bellsouth.net Chris Alevizatos is an urologist with Chesapeake Urology Associates in Towson. Chris and his wife Amy have two at Gilman, Braeden and Ryan, and two at RPCS. Dirck Bartlett is serving his second term on the Talbot County Council. There is no truth to the rumor of Sammy Rhee serving as Dirck’s director of security. Dirck continues to work for Ilex Construction & Woodworking, a firm that has offices in Maryland and Virginia and specializes in home renovation and the construction of custom architect-designed homes. Frank Bonsal sent me the following message: “Taylor Classen is building a great construction business, a job at a time. Tim Krongard and I have just or are still using their services. Because of Taylor’s high quality work, I am now broke, so I have incentive to knock it out of the park by investing in education technology and services. I just entered year four of New Markets Venture Partners. One of our partners is Robb Doub ’86, brother of classmate George Doub. I became general partner in mid-2010, and I feel good about this decade for venture. My wife is a saint and the kids are great.” Nick Brader is a vice president with Matis Warfield in Hunt Valley. Matis Warfield is a consulting engineering firm specializing in the planning and design of land development projects. Jay Brennan sent me the following Facebook message: “I relocated on January 7, 2011, to Morgantown, W.Va. My wife, Susan, has been working there since November 1, 2010. I worked remotely for four weeks. After that, it’s time to find a

new career. My son Tyler is now a sophomore at American University in D.C. He is the goalie and a co-captain on the club lacrosse team. The only news I have on any of the Bagel Squad is that Rick Friedman is building a new house somewhere out in Liberal Land, aka Northern California.” Aaron Bryant is the curator of the James E. Lewis Museum of Art at Morgan State University. In reading the Museum’s website, I learned that Aaron has taught history, public leadership and social theory at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, where he is completing his Ph.D. His past exhibits include the Museum’s Herbert Gentry retrospective and Epoch: The Legacy and Influence of Six Morgan Alumni. He is also the curator for the Robert Houston exhibit, which travels for two years and includes a series of panels and public discussions, and the William Johnson traveling exhibition, which is a collaborative project between Morgan State and the Smithsonian Institution. Aaron’s honors include fellowships with the Maryland Historical Society, the University of Maryland, the Association of African-American Museums and the American Association of Museums. He is a recipient of the Chesapeake American Studies and Gertrude Johnson Williams Writing Awards. Additionally, his research has been adapted for exhibitions at the National Electronics Museum, as well as the National Institutes of Health and Library of Medicine. Most impressive Aaron! Taylor Classen continues his important role of vice president of the Board of Trustees at the Tech, solidly representing the Class of 1982. Taylor is a partner at Delbert Adams Construction Group. He and his wife Kerri are the proud parents of two boys, Taylor (Gilman 2020) and Hayes. Taylor sent me this LinkedIn message: “Starting a new contracting firm in this economy has been tough, but I am very appreciative of all of the work that fellow Gilman classmates have given me. Mitch Ford, Les Goldsborough, Geary Stonesifer, Tim Krongard, Tim Naylor and Frank Bonsal have all been kind to give me projects. My oldest son played football this year and his teammate was James Dugan, Jay Dugan’s youngest. It is evident that James is a chip off the old block. He was a punishing running back and a fierce defender. It was great spending some time with the WUMF monster. I am still active with the Gilman Board of Trustees, and have recently been joined by Wells Obrecht. He joined me on the Building and Grounds Committee, and I have been amazed how he has jumped in and addressed so many issues. I am not certain how he has the time to be such a great help and still run his own company. I guess David Knipp is really running the ship in Canton.” Wells is president of Obrecht Commercial Real Estate. He and his wife Mary live in Roland Park with their children Charlie (Gilman 2013), Teddy and Anne. Wells is also a member of the Gilman Board of Trustees. Jim Cooke left this piece of news on the Gilman alumni website: “The last 14 months have been quite exciting and busy. I have a new wife, a new daughter, a new house and a son graduating from Gilman. I look forward to a relatively peaceful 2011!” In December 2010, I made my annual journey to the Danko manse in Boondocks, Md., otherwise known

as West Friendship. Les Goldsborough accompanied me and we met up with Alberto Zapata to spend an evening with John Danko, his wife Janine and their children Daniel, Peter and Mary Beth. John is one of those fortunate individuals who continues to look exactly the same as he did on June 14, 1982, our graduation date. John is an expert furniture artisan and was proudly displaying some newly made French-inspired cabinetry and bureaus. During Christmas week 2010, I took my family to Ski Liberty for an afternoon of skiing and ran into Jay Dugan and his sons at the snack bar. In between bits of overpriced pizza, we had the opportunity to catch up and chat. Jay is a partner and principal in three businesses, Video Game Liquidator, The Movie Factory and PrePlayed Entertainment. These businesses specialize in trade-in solutions to recycle idle/obsolete/ unwanted consumer entertainment products. I understand that Mitch Ford and his wife Susan are living in town now. They have two boys, Shane and Mitchie. Mitch is a senior vice president at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Les Goldsborough and his three boys, Dylan, Teddy and Ben, continue to live in Roland Park. Les tells me that his sons Dylan and Teddy are quite active in youth sports, and he is looking at schools for Ben. He mentioned something about McDonogh but I pretended I did not hear him. Jay Goldstein is a lecturer at George Washington University, teaching college students how to apply psychological skills training into the broader context of stress management for life. Jay is also president of JDG Consulting and Productions, which specializes in research, evaluation, education and publication of community-based youth sports initiatives. During Christmas week 2010, I went to Eddie’s to buy some Berger Cookies. My eldest son Patrick commented that this was the first place he had been to in Baltimore where I did not know someone. I responded, “We haven’t left yet,” and as we were pulling onto Roland Avenue, I saw a man walking on the sidewalk and told my son, “I know him.” I rolled down the car window to say hello to John Harrison. John is the chief of the medical staff at Kernan Hospital. John and his wife Joyce live in Roland Park with his son Matthew (Gilman 2012) and daughter Katherine. Jamey Hebb sent me the following on Facebook: “My daughter Lucy is having a great freshman year at Sewanee. It is hard to believe, as I am sure is the case for many classmates, that I am old enough to have a daughter attending college . . . the years sure do fly by. My sons Jack and Jameson are, respectively, now four and three years old and doing their best to keep their old man on his toes. They are a lot of fun, and I wish I could bottle some of their boundless energy and enthusiasm — running around with (and after) them keeps me semi-fit. I live in Monkton, and enjoy the peace and quiet of being out in the country. Hope all are well, and look forward to a big turnout for our 30th next year! That’s it from this end, my friend. Thanks, as always, for being such an outstanding class secretary.” Dave Hess made the cover of The Wall Street Journal on May 19, 2010. The article centered on the annual Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race. Dave’s entry, a 27-foot platypus on wheels weighing almost

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two tons, was the highlight of the race with a few contestants quoted as saying they wanted to take out the platypus. Sadly Dave’s entry had difficulty getting through the mud pit, with Dave being quoted as follows, “It’s demoralizing, we’ve never had to be pushed like that before.” Tom Hoen is the president of two companies, ClassroomParent and edgevale/interactive. Classroom Parent is an online, secure parent-teacher directory that helps schools better engage parents, and edgevale/ interactive provides consulting services in Agile practices, project management, Ruby on Rails development, Healthcare IT and Healthcare Research IT. Tom and his wife Allison live in Roland Park with their daughter Baiz, 11, and son Penn, 8. I regret to inform you of the passing of Danny Jarrett’s mom, Mrs. Lynn Jarrett, in April 2010. For those of you Lower School graduates, you may remember Danny’s mom running the Gilman Country Store. In fact, in 1972, Mrs. Jarrett established the Gilman Country Store, and she oversaw its operations for the next five years. Our deepest condolences are extended to Danny, his brother Bo Jarrett ’80 and his father Ned Jarrett ’49 for their loss. I spoke to David Knipp recently. He wanted our classmates to know he is the best bowler in our class, regularly beating Tom Waxter in their weekly bowling match. He did not elaborate on whether his mad bowling skills were in regular or duckpin bowling. David also let me know that he plays squash regularly with Wells Obrecht, Nick Kouwenhoven and Tom Waxter. He said, when they play, Tom insists on wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with “Mr. Finney says ‘No Jostling’ with me!” David also let me know he went shooting with Dirck Bartlett in the fall of 2010. Unlike other shooting outings with political figures, David did not have a “Dick Cheney” situation although he said Dirck kept mentioning wanting to shoot that pheasant right behind David. No word on Sammy Rhee’s security presence, overt or covert, during that outing. David works with Wells Obrecht at Obrecht Commercial Real Estate. If you want to check out what David and Wells really do, go to YouTube and type in “Natty Boh Tower’s Green Roof” for this most interesting of interviews. Tim Krongard is a partner at QuestMark Partners. Tim is the chairman emeritus of the board at Calvert School and a member of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center Foundation board. He also serves on the boards of Enpirion and Overture Networks. Tim and his wife Frances live in Glyndon with their son Alex and daughter Caroline. Shawn Larson sent me the following Facebook message: “I have two teenage kids living at home (anybody wanting to hire my son, let me know!). After running through all the local women, I had to go to Costa Rica to find a wife. My wife Natalia and I have been married almost three years now. The local criminal defense practice is going okay. If anyone gets a DUI, they can ask me for the Gilman discount.” Glenn Lacher is a real estate agent with Long & Foster in Baltimore. He and his wife Kelley live in Severna Park. My sources tell me Matt Mainolfi lives in Lutherville with his wife Carol Lynn. Herb May is managing director at Signal Hill Capital, an investment

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banking firm focused on small and mid-cap growth companies and their investors, with particular expertise in technology, media, telecommunications, education, business and healthcare services and insurance. Herb and his wife Cinnie live in Owings Mills. Herb is a trustee at Salisbury School, from which he graduated and where his son is currently a star football player. Our first entry in the “you-can-run-but-you-cannot-hide” file is Romeo McClarry. Romeo lives in Owings Mills with his wife Emma and his four children, Romeo, Matt, Ryan and Makayla. He is the chief operations officer at TSCM Security Services, a leading provider of security solutions for critical information assets and intellectual property, specializing in comprehensive technical surveillance countermeasures. John Morrel recently joined Marshall Craft Associates, an architectural firm, as a senior project manager. John and his wife Tanya live in Roland Park with their daughters Alexandra and Jessica. The rumors are true. Tim Naylor, his wife Libby and his two large sons, Killian and Forrest, DO ride around the Valley in a . . . MINI Cooper. I heard a rumor that Latty Naylor ’80 has a matching MINI Cooper but I have not been able to verify this story with my sources! I spoke to Wells Obrecht recently and he informed me there were more “Bartlett for Talbot County Council” signs in Roland Park than there were in all of Talbot County. He also noted that watching Tim Naylor drive in his MINI Cooper was something right out of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus. Pat O’Brien is an award-winning artist, specializing in offset lithograph posters and giclée (the art of making fine art prints from a digital source using ink-jet printing on canvas). Pat has been featured in Southern Living magazine and has been named Artist of the Year at the Ocean Gallery World Center for the Arts in Ocean City, Md. Mark Peeler is a vascular surgeon in Annapolis, Md. Greg Quintilian is a cook at Chili’s, living in Gardenville. Doug Riley sent in this information: “I am just working hard and maintaining my information technology business. I enjoy contacting fellow classmates online and am looking forward to planning some visits.” Doug continues to coach youth football in Randallstown, where he often channels Mr. Finney’s JV football speech on mental toughness and intestinal fortitude. Tim Robinson sent the following e-mail: “Back in June 2010, my wife Damien decided to invite some of my oldest buddies over for beer and pizza for my birthday. Of course, my main man Doug Riley came through and we shared a brew or two reminiscing about the good old days (were they really that good or am I having a memory lapse?). He’s doing well, but always busy (I guess when you are ‘Da Man’ and run your own company, you too would be busy!). During Thanksgiving, I got a call from Ken Brown, who was in town from New Haven, Conn. With the economy still slow and not many new employment opportunities, Ken decided to stay put there while in between jobs, hoping for some improvement in 2011. I haven’t heard from Chuck Wilder or Aaron Bryant for a long time. As for me, I’m still with Northrop Grumman, doing my engineering thing. Our oldest son Taylor finally moved

out and back to Oakland, Calif., where he’s working and going to school part time. My daughter Rebekah has started Middle School at Bryn Mawr and is every bit a ‘tween’: cellphone in one hand, laptop in the other! She’s starting to attend these multi-school mixers and she’s already eyeing the boys at Gilman! I think I’m going to need a bigger bat! My son Talbot (Gilman 2018) is in his last year of the Lower School. He’s developing an interest in football, and I took the whole family to see Gilman’s season opener at Archbishop Spalding (we whipped them good!). That’s all I’ve got. I keep refusing to sign up for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. because I just don’t want to be that connected (or spied on!), but e-mailing I can do (I guess that makes me ‘Old School’). Take care and have a good one!” Tim Rule is chief of the nutrient and bacteria TMDLs (total maximum daily load) division of the Maryland Department of the Environment. Michael Sarbanes is the executive director for Partnerships, Communications and Community Engagement for the Baltimore City Schools system. Mike and his wife Jill live in Baltimore with their sons Mulugeta and Anteneh and their daughter Christine. Ed Villamater sent in the following: “As for me, I had the pleasure of serving as our class phonathon chairman. I was actually duped into the job by David Hess, but I was happy to serve. Brian, I noticed YOU did not answer your phone during the phonathon! I was joined by Chris Alevizatos, Jim Cooke, Les Goldsborough, John Harrison and Tom Waxter. I would like to thank them and those who made generous donations once again for helping Gilman. I really had a nice time catching up with everyone who answered their phone! My son Ethan is now in first grade and loves Gilman. He is making some good friends that will I hope last for life. My daughter is still at Garrison Forest and will be entering the middle school. If my wife and I can survive the private school tuition, life should be good. My work remains steady and it is nice to see John Harrison around the hospital on a daily basis. My wife Ally just finished running her first marathon last fall in NYC. We are planning to run Chicago together next fall if anyone wants to join us. Let’s see if my 47-year-old body will hold up. I attended a New Year’s Party at Bob Philip’s (Loyola ’82) house and caught up with Nick Kouwenhoven and Wells Obrecht.” Rhett Waldman e-mailed the following: “I’m doing fine. My oldest daughter is looking at colleges now. It brings back memories of typing out the same essay over and over again, and of course, those lovely interviews. Glad I’m only going through it vicariously. And she can save her essay on the laptop and print it out all she wants. I could’ve used that. I received my rabbinical ordination several years ago. I decided not to pursue leading a congregation, but rather began my own ordination program (as a branch of an international organization) right here in Baltimore. Now I have ten eager candidates, and this time, because I have to be ready to answer their questions on the spot, I’m learning more than when I went through the program myself! I’ve also been teaching other subjects in Judaica — Talmud, history, Chassidism, etc. I’m still working during the day for Southwind Carpet Mills, making the

most of a shrinking market. On the side, my wife and I are buying homes in the city, renovating them and renting them out. They’re turning out nicer than our own house, so that’s getting a slow makeover as well. Needless to say, I don’t sleep much. Busy, busy.” Rhett and his wife Margery have six children: Benyamin, 19, Rachel, 18, Yosef, 16, Bracha, 14, Nosson, 11 and Tamar, 7. Tom Waxter is a partner at the law firm of Goodell, DeVries, Leech and Dann. Tom and his wife Olive, who by the way is a saint, live in Roland Park with their daughters Olive and Maggie and son Jake (Gilman 2015). Tom doesn’t know this, but he will be volunteered to host our 30th Reunion party — that is why Olive is a saint! Peter Wilson sent me the following e-mail: “Les Goldsborough, John Danko, Alberto Zapata, Bill Mathews and their respective families were at my house on New Year’s Day 2011. It was good to catch up. Les’s eldest son attends the same school as my youngest child. I frequently see Nick Brader, his wife Dawn and his kids Matthew and Katie since our kids all take tae kwon do. Maija Burns Jackson (BMS ’82) also is there with her son!” Scott Bortz continues to run Tribek Properties in Charlotte, N.C. According to Chase Monroe ’84, Scott can still be seen burying jumpers in the men’s basketball leagues of Charlotte. Scott Bowerman sent in the following: “My wife Tiffany and I announced the birth of our son James William “Will” Bowerman on March 6, 2009.” Scott and Tiffany, along with their daughter Brielle and sons Brenden and Will live in Rome, Ga., where Scott and Tiffany operate Rome Orthopaedic Clinic and Sports Medicine. Ned Brody is the chief operating officer of advertising, media and commerce, and president of paid services at AOL. Ned and his wife Toni continue to live in Washington, D.C., with their twins, son EJ and daughter Charlotte. My sources tell me that Steve Grandea is alive and well, coaching youth soccer in Fayetteville, Ga. Joe Maisog is a senior imaging scientist at Medical Numerics, the creators of MEDx, a multi-modality image processing and analysis software for medical imaging research. Joe lives in Arlington, Va. I am connected to Bill Martien on Facebook and enjoy reading about his band, Star FK Radium, for which he plays acoustic guitar. Andy Mittelman lives and works in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he is the owner of two companies, Southport Realty Associates, Inc. and Xcellence, LLC Consulting and Coaching. My sources tell me Leigh Panlilio, Ph.D., is a leading researcher with the National Institutes of Health, specializing in behavioral neurology. Wendell Phillips is director of state and community relations at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C. Ransone Price is an actuary at Genworth Financial. Ransone and his wife Cherry live in Richmond, Va., with their son Mitchell. Craig Rocklin is a consultant at MCO Development Management, which consults to nonprofits and individuals seeking solutions to problems in the areas of fundraising and development management. He is also a board member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Craig lives in Washington, D.C. Bill Rush is vice president of payment

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cycle management solutions at Ingenix. Bill, his wife Darby, son Mason and daughter Liza live in Alexandria, Va. I am deeply indebted to Billy Rush, but more on that later. John Sanders sent in the following: “My son Josh starts his sophomore year at Clemson. My daughter Emily is a junior at Wando High School and in the state champion marching band. My son Thomas plays goalie for the Mt. Pleasant 14-and-under travel lacrosse team. Kathy and I are enjoying our time as the parents of three teenagers!” Randy Wilgis is president of Environmental Banc & Exchange, America’s leading turnkey provider of ecosystem mitigation and restoration solutions. The firm has completed more than 45 projects throughout the Southeast United States resulting in the restoration of over 41 miles of stream, thousands of acres of wetlands and numerous other critical habitats. Randy and his wife Mary live in Camden, S.C., with their son Shaw, 11, and their daughter Mary Royall, 13. Peter Williams is vice president of purchasing at Baker Roofing in Raleigh, N.C. He has been VERY quiet about Liverpool FC in the past few years. Alberto Zapata is an attorney with the SEC in Washington, D.C. Al and his wife Chris live in Alexandria, Va., with their beautiful daughters Emilia and Sophia. Al was brimming with anticipation at the possibility of Duke winning back-to-back national championships in basketball. Bruce Zukerberg sent me this Facebook message: “My only news is my daughter Julia’s bas mitzvah on December 4, 2010, and it was awesome. It was so great that some of my Gilman classmates came down for it – John Harrison, Jay Goldstein and Scott Bowerman. I am reminded that it is always a great time getting back together with the boys, my friends for life.” My sources tell me Doug Eyring lives in Dallas, Texas, where he is an art director with the prestigious advertising agency, The Richards Group. Rick Friedman sent me the following Facebook message: “My wife and I are still building our dream, or rather, nightmare house in Northern California, which should be finished by April 2011. My business remains steady, thank God. It is possible that I lost in fantasy baseball to Jay Brennan last year, but since estrogen destroys male brain cells and I have three daughters, I do not recall. My daughters and wife are continuing to show me how little I understand about females, although I think that I may have a handle on the motivations of our female golden retriever. My waistline expanded a bit too much in 2010, so it is time to exercise more and eat better. I hope all is well with you.” Will Howard is an editor and writer living in Taos, N.M. When I was in Baltimore in January 2010, I bumped into Willy’s brother, J.B. Howard ’81, as I was entering the Roland Park Starbucks, and his sister, Beth Howard Gantt, as I was leaving. T.R. Levin e-mailed the following message: “My wife and I continue to work as physicians at Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek, Calif. My oldest daughter Yael is a junior at Berkeley HS and is starting to look at colleges, so I am getting to relive the ups and downs of my own 11th grade year. She’s a much better student than I ever was, she has more options. I’d also like to say it’s been really

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fun talking with Ed Villamater once a year when he calls me up to ask for money.” Ben Kim is executive legal counsel for The Walt Disney Company. Stephan Miller is a medical affairs scientist at Amylin Pharmaceuticals in San Diego, Calif. Stephan lives in Solana Beach, Calif., where rumor has it Archie Peregoff also lives. Crawford Parr is a commuter pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska, with his wife Melissa and daughter Scarlet. Charlie Price e-mailed this message: “Good to hear from you. Thanks for being so good about keeping everyone connected. The only disadvantage of our 80-degree weather is that the big Monday night football games start mid-afternoon Hawaii-time. I had to wake up early to watch the Ravens playoff win over the Chiefs. My girls are home for one more week before heading back to college together. Then, Leta and I will be empty nesters again, eating a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. We miss the girls when they’re away but enjoy the freedom.” Wallace Simpson was kind enough to post the following on my Facebook page: “Brian, I only get back east once every few years so I REALLY appreciate the effort you put into this. Thanks for keeping it funny, informative and mostly accurate.” Wallace, his wife Lynne, son David and daughter Kati continue to live in Sammamish, Wash.” Bill Heller is an orthopedic surgeon in Chicago, Ill., specializing in conditions of the hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder and treating all upper extremity conditions, including fractures, arthritis, work-related injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome and other trauma or chronic conditions. Bill and his wife Leslie live in Chicago along with their three daughters. Andy Owens continues his annual practice of sending me nothing for the class notes. I do know from his Christmas card that he is still married to Michele, and the twins, Justin and Hayley, are adorable (they take after their mother!). I also know from Facebook he is still a 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. There is more from the “you-can-run-but-youcannot-hide” files: Gary Raab lives in Northern Kentucky with his wife Dana. After college, Gary worked for 15 years with McCormick & Company in Baltimore as a chemist. Gary now works for Wild Flavors in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he is director for beverage applications & flavor creations. Owen Perkins ran, unfortunately unsuccessfully, for State Senator representing Colorado Senate District 32. “O” continues to remain active in local politics, serving as the secretary for the Democratic Party of Denver. David Reahl is executive director, North/Central Region for USAA Realty. As executive director, David is responsible for new business development in the North Central and Midwest Regions including development and build-to-suits. In addition, David handles real estate acquisitions in Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, where he is responsible for all aspects of the acquisition process including sourcing transactions, market and property underwriting, due diligence and closing. David lives in Chicago with his sons David, 15, and Matthew, 11. Jeb Saunders is a partner at the law firm of

Lower School parent Xander Perry, Richard Gatchell ’83 and Nick Schloeder ’85.

McCroskey, Fledman, Cochrane & Brock in Battle Creek, Mich. Jeb and his wife Molly live in Albion, Mich. — where it is ALWAYS cold — with their two daughters Frances and Dorothy. Joe Seivold sent this e-mail: “The Seivolds are thriving through one last winter in the Upper Midwest, which has been covered in white, then gray, snow since early November. Luckily, frequent forays to the Land of Pleasant Living to catch son Jordan play lacrosse for USNA (a sophomore middie, #41) will provide the necessary reprieve from the arctic blasts suffered here. Come late June 2011, we are packing up and headed South, as I have been appointed Headmaster at Berkeley Preparatory School, a PK-12 coed day school of 1263 students in Tampa, Fla. Joan and I are excited for our new adventure, though sad to leave the great friends we’ve made in the Twin Cities. My son Johnny, close by for now in Eden Prairie, Minn., may not last long once our menagerie bolts, but we’ll see. My best to all.” Wolf Zuckert is an assistant professor for microbiology, molecular genetics and immunology at the University of Kansas. Wolf and his wife Karin live in Shawnee Mission, Kan., with their daughter Franziska. Mike Berkowitz continues to teach history at the Trinity School in New York. My sources tell me Terry Booker continues to live in Philadelphia, Pa., with his wife Stephanie and son Corbin. Terry works for Grain Communications Group. I communicate with Ken Brown on Facebook, frequently reminiscing about 1970s funk music, making sure that, as the Brothers Johnson so eloquently stated, Ken keeps the funk outtamyface! I reconnected with Jake Callard on Facebook. Jake sent me the message: “Good to hear from you, Brian. I’m a recent convert to Facebook, but it has been a trip with whom you get back in touch. Take care.” Jake and his wife Jenni have three children and live in Lewes, Del. Hollyday Compton and his wife Constance live in Norwell, Mass., with their son Phelps. Hollyday is the president of Decision Mortgage in Cohasset, Mass., and

told me he just had the best quarter of his life at the end of 2010! He said he hopes the Annual Giving office does not read these notes! He had no comment on the woeful performance of Liverpool Football Club and claimed to be a lifelong supporter of Tottenham FC. Alex Gavis is vice president and associate general counsel in the corporate legal department of Fidelity Investments in Boston, Mass. Alex is responsible for legal issues related to Fidelity’s retail brokerage business, including all brokerage products and services, brokerage and mutual fund marketing and advertising, online trading and capital markets. He is also the chief legal counsel for Fidelity’s e-commerce and e-business initiatives and chair of the firm’s eBusiness Practice Group. Alex is also an adjunct faculty member at Suffolk University Law School. Alex and his wife Jane live in Wellesley with their two boys, Edwin and Owen. Joel Getz wants everyone to know that I blew him off in Baltimore during Christmas week 2010 but Ross Taylor openly welcomed him into his home! After a multi-year media campaign, the Facebook Group entitled “Friends of Joel Getz” finally convinced Joel to join Facebook, and he now has more than 1,000 friends! In all seriousness, Joel continues to lead the fundraising efforts at the Yale School of Management, where he is associate dean for development and alumni relations. Joel is often quoted in Bloomberg, Businessweek and, of course, the Yale Daily News. Ross Taylor is a senior vice president and senior research analyst for CL King & Associates, specializing in the medical technology sector. Ross and his wife Kathleen live on the Upper East Side with their three boys: Lachlan, Matthew and Nathaniel. I have re-connected with a lot of Ross’s ex-girlfriends on Facebook and they all say the same thing: “He’s married? With triplets?” Vincent Hom is a systems administrator at Boston University. Mike Liebson is the director of value chain

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planning product strategy at Oracle, with responsibility for strategic enterprise applications such as ERP, supply chain management, customer relationship management, enterprise performance management, business intelligence and software as a service. Mike and his wife Gao-Wen live in Boston with their daughter Allison and son Alexander. Ian Miller is the chief information officer at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a New York law firm. Ian and his wife Liz live in Summit, N.J., with their two children. Jeff Mulholland is an orthopedic surgeon in Coraopolis, Pa. Tim Rumberger is the principal of Phillips Avenue Elementary School in New Bedford, Mass. Jon Thaler continues to operate his business, When I’m Mobile (www.whenimmobile.com), a web consulting and mobile web strategy firm. If you get the chance, please check out “Mobile Web Design for Dummies” as one of Jon’s websites is featured for its innovations. Scott Weaver is president and CEO at APR Supply Company in Harrisburg, Pa. Jared Braiterman writes, “I am sorry I don’t have much news for the class notes. I am still living in Tokyo with my husband. My plan is to stay in Japan until I am asked to leave! Tokyo is a wonderful place to enjoy crowds, plants and men’s fashion.” Jared is being a bit modest in his accomplishments. Jared is a design anthropologist and founder of Tokyo Green Space. His current research examines how bringing nature into the city benefits the environment and people. From 2009 to 2011, Jared was a research fellow at the Tokyo University of Agriculture. He has published in a variety of mass media, and has presented at landscape design, computer and urban design conferences. You can read his blog at www.tokyogreenspace.com. Mike Jeffrey, his wife Meredith and his two children live in Perth, Australia, where Mike works for the Western Australia Music Association. Joe Shin is CEO for Barclays Bank in Korea. He and his wife Inya live in Seoul with their daughters Soojin, 5, and Soobin, 1. My sources tell me Amatsia Spigler now lives in Israel. Geary Stonesifer has relocated his family from Baltimore to Belize City, Belize. Geary is now president of Bowen and Bowen Ltd., one of Belize’s leading companies with operations and interests in many different lines of business, one of which is the Coca-Cola bottling company in Belize. Geary and I had an interesting conversation on the benefits of caramel-colored sugar water to the profits of Bowen and Bowen Ltd.! During the rainy season, I sent Geary a message to which he replied, “The rainy season is coming to an end. We did have one wild hurricane that hit us directly but it was only a Category 1 and the damage was light. Everything else is going well.” As for your class secretary, my wife Leigh and I relocated to Birmingham, Ala., in July 2010 after living in Atlanta for more than 22 years. We now live in an area called Mountain Brook that reminds me of Ruxton and Roland Park in many ways. I am a vice president for a marketing and advertising agency, Lawler Ballard Van Durand. This agency is owned ironically by Tinsley Van Durand ’65. I have now doubled the Gilman population in this state of Alabama! Tinsley and I had the same advisor at Gilman, Mr. Schloeder, who was also my father’s advisor at Calvert Hall. What a small world! As I mentioned earlier, I am indebted to Billy Rush as he was

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kind enough to provide a glowing personal recommendation of me to one of his fraternity brothers, who happens to be the CEO of Smithfield Foods, our agency’s largest client. Timex, the check is in the mail, and dinner is on me the next time you are in Birmingham. As to my family, my boys are acclimating well to life in the Magic City. My son Patrick, 12, is in the seventh grade at Mountain Brook Junior High, where he played defensive tackle on the football team. My son Sean, 10, is in the fifth grade at Brookwood Forest Elementary School. As of this writing, he is playing on a travel basketball squad where he plays center and power forward. Lacrosse is in its infancy in Birmingham, but I hope to have the opportunity to coach my sons again this spring. 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 e-mail (abcdoud@bellsouth.net) or call me directly (205-420-1727) and I will make sure you are “published” in the next issue.

1983 Andrew Buerger abuerger@mac.com Michael Eng is still practicing medicine (pathology) in Maine, as he has for the past 10 years. “Learning to enjoy divorced life three years in,” he says. “Hope to start running YogaDance classes and move to a farm.” Derek Reid e-mails, “Don’t know that I’ve talked with anyone from our class in years. I am living in Indianapolis, teaching ballet technique and dance history at Butler University. I’ve been with my wife Jennifer for 19 years and have two girls, Hannah, 14, and Olivia, 10. “I have been involved with the arts ever since my days at Butler. Life is good!!” It’s great to know David is making a career pursuing his lifelong passion. But he refused to answer my question about whether he’s a Colts fan or not. Richard Jacobs, working as our West Coast correspondent, reports, “At least four of the Class of ’83 have made it out to California. David Brecher and I are in Orange County, Gideon Brower in L.A., and Lee Sterne in San Francisco. I hope to make the L.A. Gilman meeting.” Gideon writes, “I’m doing fine, still living in Santa Monica and writing screenplays. At the moment I’m working for British producers on a film script set in London. You think if I throw some ‘bloody hells’ and ‘tossers’ randomly into the dialogue, no one will notice I’m an American? I get back to Baltimore pretty regularly.” Google him sometime to see the impressive list of his produced works. “Went to lunch with Rich Jacobs in November. He was in town on an extended consulting engagement,” writes Lee Sterne. “I am still working at Blackrock overseeing Americas Fixed Income iShares (ETF’s). Wife

Bill Stratton ’85, Sherm Bristow ’67 and Steven Comfort ’85 nearby the Class of 1985 reunion picture board.

and three kids are well. We love living in Larkspur, Calif., in Marin County. I will be spending a number of weekends and holidays at Squaw Valley skiing again this year, in case anyone will be in the Tahoe area and wants to ski some great lines! Conversely, if anyone is in San Francisco, please feel free to look me up.” James Howard was on a Gilman ’83 LinkedIn tear. He writes, “Still living in Japan (now going on 20 years — God how the time flies!), and settling into my job at Dell. As it just so happens I was out to Las Vegas for our annual sales conference a few weeks ago, and ran into Tim Carroll — Timmy is also at Dell as the director and global lead, research computing solutions. He recognized me immediately, which I suppose means living in Asia all these years has done wonders for my health! “I was hoping to get together with Rudiger Breitenecker on his last trip out here a few months ago, but unfortunately something came up at the last minute so I wasn’t able to make it. I’ve managed to connect with quite a few of the guys, including Richard Jacobs. His wife (like mine) is also Japanese, so he and his family come over to Japan every few years. Hopefully next time they are in town I’ll get to meet up with them. “I try and manage a visit back to the Baltimore area once a year or so to visit my family, so next time I’m in the area I will certainly get in touch with everyone.” John Roe can be found on his boat with Maverick, a 3-year-old English Labrador. “All is well with me — I left commercial real estate brokerage after 10 years, and I am now working on my own residential and commercial real estate investments. I spend a lot of free time on my boat down at Harborview Marina, so if anyone is down at the Tiki Barge this summer, please feel free to stop by and say ‘hello’. . . Appropriately, the name of my boat is ‘2nd and Goal.’” Barry Tubman is very happy in the Boston area with his wife and kids. He is the managing director at Ballentine Partners, LLC

Keith McCants is associate director, business systems at Commonfund, a nonprofit in Connecticut. Haftan Eckholdt is happy and healthy. He still lives in Brooklyn, mostly. His spouse, John, just got tenure at Hunter College (urban planning). Haftan adds, “A few months ago we hosted Michael Lewis (also tenured at Hunter) and Michael Phillips ’82 and their wives and four daughters (one Lewis, three Phillips) at our home. What a food fight! “Heading to Colorado to spend a week skiing with Felipe Albuquerque, his wife Ruth and their two sons (they still live in Phoenix). Spending a lot more time in Maryland, fixing up my mother’s house (she passed away in 2009), burning lots of firewood, still trying to eat EVERYTHING on Tony Foreman’s Cinghiale menu and catching a Danny Stuelpnagel show now and then.” I can never manage to get Joel Cohn to join me on one of my climbs because he is too busy every summer taking a break from Smith Barney and escaping to Rockies for some backpacking with friends. Jay Schmidt tells me, “All good with me . . . daughters Georgia, 5, and Caroline, 7, in kindergarten and second grade respectively at RPCS. Son Henry, 14, is in ninth grade at Gilman, and he plays varsity on the Greyhound’s nationally-ranked squash team.” Alan Fleischmann speaks globally about leadership, entrepreneurship and mentorship, and he is writing a book on negotiation. His ImagineNations Group recently launched an online global social networking portal for young entrepreneurs (www. imagine-network.org). ImagineNations Network focuses on emerging markets and enables entrepreneurs to connect at the local and global level to peers, mentors and financial capital. He also worked on the 2009 merger of two firms to create the Albright Stonebridge Group, and he is a principal of this global strategy firm. He and his wife Dafna live in Chevy Chase with their two young daughters, Laura Julia, 6, and Natalia, 4.

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Mark Kaufman is now helping our state keep our banks open. Mark was recently promoted to commissioner of financial regulation of Maryland. His daughter Caroline celebrated her bat mitzvah in the fall. Max Curran also remains as politically active as ever with his brother-in-law in the Governor’s mansion. He practices law at Saul Ewing, where he is chair of the energy and utilities practice group. Andrew Jones is the chief of budget integration for the Army G-1 at the Pentagon. He and wife Debbie live with their children Hayden and Juliet in Frederick, Md. To show the diversity of our class, Rob Glover told me about his new granddaughter — his daughter Robyn’s baby. He also has a son at Elon College. Rob works in finance at Saval Foods. And, my wife and I now have kids. They are younger than Robbie’s granddaughter! On January 1, 2011, Jennifer and I arrived back in the U.S. with our first children. We adopted two beautiful seven-montholds from Ethiopia. Joss is our little girl, and Bronsten is the boy. Can you say “Class of 2028?” Thanks everyone for reporting in.

1984 Willie Franklin willie@franklin-group.com The reality of how fast time flies certainly hits home for our class this year. It is hard to believe, but one of our classmates has a son who graduated from Gilman this June — Nick Cortezi’s son, Nick. While the thought of having a high school graduate is eye opening, E.B. Harris and his wife Laura are trying to prove that we are still young, as they welcomed twins (a boy and a girl) to their family this past fall. Congratulations E.B and Laura, and good luck! Congratulations also go to Dan Miller on his recent marriage to Mary Ellen Shuttleworth. Dan and Mary Ellen were married in Greece over Memorial Day weekend 2010. They live in New York. Jack Patteson was able to make the trip to Greece to represent our class and reported that everything proceeded smoothly. Dan and Jack still managed to sneak in a bachelor weekend together in New Orleans and attended the New Orleans Saints football game against the St. Louis Rams in December to watch’s Dan’s cousin, an offensive lineman for the Rams. Details about the trip are still being sorted out. Jack was also seen twice over the holidays at Cross Street Market, reminiscing about the good times with Ted Brown and other fellow UNC alums. Brendan Linehan and Eric Pfeifer both visited Baltimore over Christmas break. Brendan still lives in Houston, and he is starting a new business. He is in the process of opening a multi-purpose facility that will include an auto spa, pet care center and a Starbucks. It is also rumored that Brendan may have a serious girlfriend. Perhaps he will follow Dan’s lead to give our class another wedding to celebrate. Proving that he is now a true Floridian, Eric and his son John were seen shivering

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at the Ravens/Saints game, despite sitting in the club level. At home in Sanibel, Eric continues to sell residential real estate, while using some of the entertainment skills developed from his Gilman Talent Show days as a participant in the Sanibel “Dancing with the Islands’ Stars.” Eric will dance with his two professional dance instructors to “Pump It” by the Black Eyed Peas. Let’s hope that Eric moves better on the dance floor than he did running the 40-yard dash! Arthur Gleckler continues to travel with his wife Kristine Kelly when he is not designing software for Google. He traveled to the Grand Canyon in April and enjoyed a magnificent combination of snowy and hot weather only days apart. In May, they visited Doug Becker and his family in Paris. Arthur’s most unusual recent adventure was a zeppelin tour above Silicon Valley. Todd Taylor still resides in New Orleans and continues to work as a residential real estate agent. Although the last 18 months or so in the real estate market have been difficult, Todd remains positive. He is very proud of his 10-year-old daughter Clarke, who made the middle school JV volleyball team and actually hit the ball during a game. Like her father, Clarke is a straight A student as well. Pretty cool! Speaking of daughters, Ted Waters was spotted in the stands at Roland Park Country School this past fall watching his daughter Ashby play field hockey for the RPCS Big Red’s sixth grade team. They were playing against the undefeated NDP Blazers sixth grade team, which happened to be anchored in the goal by my daughter Emily. Both Ted and I agreed that it was a lot easier watching our daughters chase the ball up and down the field rather than attempting to do it ourselves. Over a year has now passed since Chris Coffland was killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan. Since then, Bill McComas, Dan Miller and I have been working with the Coffland family to help establish the Christopher Coffland Memorial Fund to honor Chris for his sacrifice and service to our country. The fund was created to support soldiers returning home from the battlefield as they re-acclimate back into their local communities. Funds are being raised and will be used to provide emotional, mental and/or physical rehabilitation services (including prosthetics and plastic surgery) for the veterans as well as career counseling and post-secondary education support. To learn more about the fund, please visit www.christophercofflandmemorialfund.com. Finally, staying with the theme of this class update that we are getting old. . . . I ruptured my Achilles in early December playing squash. I had surgery on December 8 to repair my torn tendon, and I have a long road to recovery ahead. I have been on crutches for six weeks at this writing, and I hope to be walking on my own again by the Super Bowl. To add insult to injury, I was presented with my own handicap parking placard a week after my surgery on my 45th birthday by my wife Heather! Did I mention that E.B. and Laura Harris had twins?

The Class of 1985 attempts to create its Founders Day graduation photograph on the front steps of the home of Laurie and David Cook, the site of the 25th Reunion.

1985 Edward Winstead tedwinstead@gmail.com Bob Landon flew in from Rio de Janeiro, Tommy Horst brought his wife and infant son and Patrick Gorman may have spent the night on the carpeted floor of David Cook’s basement. No one seems to know for sure. But everyone agrees that Laurie and David Cook were gracious hosts and put on a 25th reunion dinner last October that was worth the wait. David even handed out glossy color photographs of the reunion group shot printed fresh from his computer. “You really have to hand it to David and his family. It was a great situs and turnout,” said Kurt Schultheis, who inexplicably used the Latin word for location. Everyone gave the party rave reviews. The food was amazing, and David was personally restocking the basement bar late in the evening. Some celebrity guests even dropped by as the evening wore on, including Headmaster John Schmick, Ron Culbertson, Shanthi Kumar and Joe Duncan, among others. “A highlight of the party for me was talking to Ron Culbertson, who seemed just as over-the-top exuberant as he did when he was my eighth grade algebra teacher,” said David Rody. “I also enjoyed talking to Keefe Clemons (and finally meeting his wife), whom I haven’t seen in I don’t know how many years, even though we live about 10 blocks away from each other in New York City. It was just great to stay up late

night in the Cooks’ basement with John Angelos, Nick Schloeder, Pat Gorman, Steve Ciccarone and others.” Although he had a great time, David was ready to curse Harry Halpert and Bernie Rhee for performing some kind of “voodoo magic” and convincing him to be the honorary chair of the reunion committee. “Here’s a tip: don’t drink with Harry at a Ravens tailgate the year before our next reunion,” David writes. But he also wanted to thank everyone who helped out in planning the reunion, “all the guys who made it to the reunion, and especially the Cooks for hosting the terrific Saturday night party.” Tommy Horst and his wife Indira brought their infant son Thomas to the party, and all three of them seemed to have fun. Meanwhile, a classmate with silver hair, who shall remain nameless, was momentarily mistaken for one of our teachers, while a former teacher, Mr. Duncan, was mistaken for a current Gilman student (by my wife). All that running and good genes have evidently kept him feeling young, and he was in as good spirits as ever. “As much as our classmates enjoyed seeing each other, the teachers enjoyed it equally as much if not more,” Harry Halpert noted. At one point, Mr. Schmick cornered Bob Landon to learn more about the travel books that Bob has written for the Lonely Planet series. People came from across the country, including New York, Boston, Miami, Atlanta, San Francisco, D.C., Northern Virginia, Denver and Minnesota. Atlanta was well represented, with Rich Weinstein, Bill Stratton, Jeff Grant and Chip Dates in attendance. A few days later, Chip completed a 75-mile bike ride in Utah and raised $4,775 for breast cancer victims.

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Paul Dickey and his significant other traveled to the reunion from Denver, and they were engaged not long after. Pat Gorman is also said to be engaged. “By my count there were 43 classmates at the Cooks,” said Richard Weinstein. “It was great seeing everybody at both the Friday and Saturday events.” Pete Heuisler, who flew in from New Hope, Minn., said “I had a great time at the Halperts’ on Friday night, shaking hands with his three sons and warmly proclaiming ‘I went to school with your father for 12 years!’” Among the teachers at the party was Julien Meyer, who chairs the mathematics department at St. Paul’s School. Ben Keenan missed the party but enjoyed the crab feast at Gilman the night before. He’s an attorney living in Delaware with his wife and children. Harry Halpert heaped praise on David Rody for deciding to reach out to classmates well in advance of the reunion, which led to a good turnout. “And the Cooks did a fantastic job. The coolest part was the photograph that David gave to everyone. I have it in my study and many people have commented about how fit, handsome, distinguished and happy we look.” Throughout the evening, Harry talked to classmates who had been to reunions in the past and looked forward to the event, as well as to others who may have been a bit skeptical about coming, for whatever reason. “But it was clear from my conversations and from how late most people stayed that everyone was glad they came,” he said. “We are not getting any younger, so my hope is that our classmates will continue to make the effort every five years.” In other news, Jay Davidson is busy bringing an Indy car race to Charm City. Billed as “180 MPH through the streets of Baltimore,” the Grand Prix will tear up the Inner Harbor on September 2-4, 2011. “As you can imagine, it’s been big news here in Baltimore,” notes Bernie Rhee, who may come out of retirement to participate in the race. Find more information at http:// baltimoregrandprix.com. Wil Stith, who unfortunately could not make it to the reunion, is the first classmate to have a son graduate from Gilman, according to Bernie. Wil’s son Curtis graduated in June 2011. “Young Kim (a.k.a. Dan Kim) and I recently took his son Andrew fishing. His son LOVES fishing,” Bernie writes. Bernie runs a small boutique law firm focusing on legal issues that affect technology companies (primarily pharmaceutical and medical device companies). “In my free time, my wife and I are busy with our 2-year-old son.” Craig Sullivan has lived in Baltimore for the last four years and works for ADP (Automatic Data Processing). “Last April I was on vacation in Colorado, where I had a great day of skiing one foot of fresh powder in Aspen Highlands with Paul Dickey acting as my guide,” he writes. “We later ran into Roli Breitnecker ’86, who had arrived late due to a storm and was eagerly trying to find some fresh tracks of his own.” Greg Gunning is opening a wood-fired pizza restaurant called Earth, Wood and Fire. Be sure to stop by if you are on Falls Road near Princeton Sports and become a fan on Facebook.

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Speaking of Facebook, one day David Treadwell’s staid profile picture was replaced by a computergenerated kid in a Red Sox baseball cap wielding a light saber. David explained: “I recently moved within Microsoft to run engineering for our entertainment division, which includes Xbox and other offerings that use avatars. So I changed my profile pic to the avatar to get in the swing of things here. At 44, I’m an old man in this division, but it is a lot of fun to be working on entertainment software and games!” He added, “I was sorry to miss the reunion. With a 10-month-old and my work commitments, flying across the country was more than I could do.” Jeff Grant recently posted a picture of himself with the Fonz on Facebook. Yes, the Fonz. Jeff, who is a vice president of Turner Broadcasting Research for all of the Cartoon Network businesses (CN, Adult Swim, Boomerang, etc.), visited the Atlanta Comic-Con last fall to see if Cartoon Network had a presence at the event. The Fonz was there. “Henry Winkler stars in one of our Adult Swim shows, “Children’s Hospital,” so I introduced myself and he was really great,” Jeff writes. “I also oversee the camp alumni group for the summer camp that I used to attend (Camp Chickawah in Harrison, Maine), and Henry’s daughter Zoe married the son of one of our alums. I mentioned that to him, as well.” Jeff was in the process of moving his family down to Atlanta from Westchester County in New York. Phil Koh, who lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three kids, recently sold his technology company. Eddie Rosemond owns and runs Liquid Web Designs, which is based in Upper Marlboro, Md. The company has provided design strategies and marketing solutions to more than 100 small businesses. Alex Kaufman recently had lunch with Joey Ortiz. “Joe is in the United States Army and is currently stationed in Germany,” Alex writes. “He is due to be promoted to a full bird Colonel in April. This is quite an accomplishment!” Alex added: “We had a tremendous class, and it is always an honor to be associated with all 99 of us (although now it is 97 unfortunately).”

1986 Jonathan Kagan jkagan@bkglawfirm.com I remember cruising around listening to Peter Gabriel and Steve Winwood with Hassan Murphy. I recall monthly donut sales and tardball in the senior room. I’ll never forget Robb Doub and me spotting Mercer Neale in Wells the morning of the Hunt Cup. And I remember beating Calvert Hall in football 27–22, and Lamar Smith breaking the all-time Gilman rushing record at the time with 1,533 yards. The year was 1986 — our senior year and the last time we were all gathered under one roof in the old Gilman gym to accept our diplomas. I hope to see many of you at our 25th Reunion this year to reminisce and reflect on life since we graduated. At 25 years, here is what some of our classmates are doing now.

Our class has produced its share of managing directors in the financial world. Greg Lee lives in Manhattan with his family. He is a managing director for Goldman Sachs and is head of the transport and infrastructure group. Bob Kent is a managing director in the financial sponsors group at Stifel Nicolaus in Philadelphia. The Kents enjoy life in Bryn Mawr, Pa. Gordon DeKuyper is a managing director in the global banking group at Citibank living with his family in Calgary, Alberta. Roli Breitenecker is doing well in NYC. He still works in private wealth management at Morgan Stanley. Roli, Jooin and Luke, 7, live in Waccabuc, N.Y. They enjoyed a great vacation last year in Hawaii. Roli reports that all those bluegrass festivals he spent with Luke on his shoulders are paying off, “Luke loves Jerry Douglas and wants a banjo for Christmas.” He keeps in touch with Robb Doub and Jeff Tadder, and looks forward to his annual ski trip with them and his brothers to Alta. Peter Tomlinson is a partner at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York and focuses on complex financial litigation. His wife Tracey is a partner at the law firm of Hogan Lovells in New York. They live in Manhattan and have three girls Phoebe (age 10), Zoe (age 8), and Nadine (age 3). They try to spend a lot of time at their place in Northwest Connecticut, and this year took an awesome trip to Big Sky, Montana. Last year Bo Fowlkes took a leave of absence from Fletcher Asset Management in NYC to work on a design job on a small boutique hotel in Marrakech, Morocco. “I was there from May through September, working through 120 F days, dust storms, mud, rain . . . unpleasant but an adventure.” Now back in New York, Bo’s company recently purchased Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel magazine, where he writes, consults for the editor-in-chief and has been busy trying to turn them into an APP. In March 2011, Bo and his partner Mehul traveled to India where they spent the last 10 days in a Buddhist monastery in Dharamsala on a God-finding mission. “I figure He’s got to be hiding somewhere in the Himalayas,” Bo writes. Andy Layton and his wife Jodi and sons Joshua and Jonathan moved to Chappaqua, N.Y., last year (just a short walk from President Clinton’s house). Andy was promoted to director of Anderson Real Estate Partners, which has him traveling to college campuses across the country. “When I travel to ACC schools, I always leave my Duke basketball hat in the car,” Andy reports. Mark Flaherty works for Virgin Mobile in Warren, N.J., and his family lives in Metuchen. I received an e-mail from Mark while he was traveling in Alaska. “My annual expedition took me above the Arctic Circle, one Northern Lights viewing so far, and several days at -35 F. Skiing at Alyeska.” Randall Krongard lives in East Hampton with wife Allison and two kids. He is still cranking out screenplays for TV and film. Randall’s film “Override” was shown in NYC in February. Back in Maryland, Ted McKeldin continues on active duty (Lt. Col., USMCR) with the new U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade. He is working on strategy and policy. Ted stays in touch with Brad Wheeler and enjoys virtual reunions through Facebook. In Fall 2010,

Ted had a great trip hunting with the Zulu in South Africa. “Back to the Motherland in August 2011, to hunt Mozambique, then back to KwaZulu-Natal. Hunting, too, for a house in our native BAWLmer, and for a potential spouse (who won’t object to large African game heads covering her walls).” Paul Sabundayo practices internal medicine with a group out of Mercy Hospital, and his wife Beulah conducts vaccine research at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. They live in Glyndon and their girls, Chloe, 10, and Sophie, 6, attend Friends. Adam Morgan is still working as a radiologist at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, Md. He spends his weekends watching his sons play soccer/basketball/lacrosse/ swimming. Adam says, “My injury and wheelchair give a new level to the expression ‘living vicariously through my kids.’ “The recession has even hit medicine,” he continues. “Even my group’s large radiology practice is contracting. As my oldest enters middle school, the possibility of becoming a Gilman parent looms even larger on my horizon. I would be lying if I did not admit that the recession has influenced my decision to likely delay him applying to Gilman until high school.” If or when his boys go to Gilman, he reports his youngest would be class of 2020 with Toby Broadus’s and Brad Lebow’s sons. Adam’s oldest would be class of 2017 with one of Tim Oursler’s boys. Toby is finishing his 10th year at Gilman teaching classics in the Upper School. Brad and his family are in Baltimore, and he is working at Horich Parks Lebow Advertising in Hunt Valley. Tim is a partner at Royston Mueller McLean & Reid in Towson where he is spending most of his time in commercial and residential real estate, estate planning and estate administration. He reports, “TJ and Wade are in eighth and sixth grades, respectively, at Gilman and enjoying themselves. Virginia loves tenth age (fourth grade) at Calvert. All three are playing rec. basketball. However, given their parents’ heights, their basketball days may be numbered.” Tim was recently picking up his son from the Haswell Franklin Gilman Duals wrestling tournament and ran into Mr. Finney and Mr. Schloeder. He reported they both looked great. When he asked how they were doing, they responded in unison and with a smile, “We’re here!” Jason Pappas and wife Cindy welcomed their second son, Eric, about a year ago. Their son Luke is almost four. They moved to a new house in Canton this year and are firmly entrenched in raising the family in the city. Jason reports, “Business is great. I am running a management consulting firm downtown that is doing interim CEO and turnaround work.” Jason is a principal at Hannix Consulting, Inc., the chairman of the Board at Big Brothers Big Sisters and The Maryland Mentoring Partnership, and the newly-appointed chairman of the Board of the Greater Baltimore Technology Council. David Long and his wife Liz just had their second son, Eli. David reports, “All are well. We are working in Baltimore; Liz is faculty at Hopkins, and I manage my management consulting business and make short films.” Ed Sharkey practices business law and litigation in Bethesda, Md. His firm celebrates its eighth

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Eric David ’90, Ryan Jordan ’90 and Brooks Matthews ’87. Matthews teaches in the Gilman Middle School and coaches the varsity lacrosse team.

anniversary in May. He spends as much time as he can with his wife Jennifer and their three children Anne, 12, Elizabeth, 9, and Freddy, 5. David Cahn recently joined Whiteford, Taylor & Preston in Baltimore. He concentrates in franchise and business law. Robb Doub continues to love life in Baltimore with his wife Sri Lise and their three kids. The youngest. Poe, is in first grade at Gilman. Robb is a general partner at New Markets Venture Partners. Robb reports he just finished skiing with Jeff Tadder and all three Breitenecker brothers, and he needs a vacation. “I can’t party like I used to. I’m not 16 anymore.” Robb worked on a great party for all of us as co-chair on our 25th Reunion committee. Robb keeps in touch with Hassan Murphy, who lives in Chevy Chase with Amy and the boys, Will and Caleb. Hassan is still the managing partner of Murphy, PA in Baltimore. The firm focuses on complex commercial litigation for plaintiffs and defendants. When he is not working, Hassan coaches the boys’ baseball and soccer teams. Murph explains, “While I was a star football and lacrosse player, I have no problems coaching other sports.” John Spilman and his wife Mollie are enjoying Baltimore with their boys Billy and Ryan, who both attend Gilman. John is having fun coaching Ryan’s lacrosse team. “We spend a lot of time practicing shots behind the back . . . actually, I just like showing the kids I still got it.” Last year John started Kidogo Capital Management and opened the office in Stevenson with partner Patrick Cairns. Mollie, as senior vice president of business-to-business marketing at Yahoo!, commutes frequently to northern California. John is still perfecting his golf game and fishing with Patrick, when he can, for stripers out of Chesapeake Beach. Our family had a great time vacationing with the Spilmans last summer in Bethany. William Whitehurst lives in Baltimore with his wife Anna Lincoln and their sons Will and Ben, who are at Gilman. William works in group insurance for Hoffman Thomas and produces his

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own movies, which he writes in his spare time. Out on the West Coast, Brian David states he will not make the reunion. “Just as I was 10+ years late in arriving at Gilman, I am late to fatherhood . . . our first is due that same weekend. So I am guessing it won’t be smart to leave. . . .” David and his wife just moved back to San Francisco after two years in NYC (and a bunch of commuting to D.C.). He took a new job with Visage Mobile, and his wife Dara is starting a business (www. aylabeauty.com). David Grose lives in San Francisco and works as a senior loan consultant for RPM. He is playing and coaching lacrosse and mountain bike riding. Grosey still keeps in touch with David Young who, after 16 years living in Latin America, moved with his family to the Miami area, where he is a partner with The Americas Group Real Estate, providing real estate investment advisory services throughout the region. Brad Wheeler’s life on the West Coast is hectic and exciting. “New house, new job, new gadgets, new West Coast adventures and waiting for the ‘Big One’ to hit provide a relatively interesting background for bringing up a cute, California gal with my great wife Shannon.” George Clarke and family remain in Colorado, and he sees Bob Zura and his family yearly. Otherwise he reports he has “switched from snowboarding to skiing and bathes infrequently.” Zura, wife Marianne, and their three children, Adrianne, 3, Conor, 10, and Gavin, 8, are in Durham, N. C. Bob still fixes broken bones. David Norton continues as senior vice president and chief marketing officer at the recently renamed Caesars Entertainment (formerly Harrah’s Entertainment) in Las Vegas. David was named CMO of the year and direct marketer of the year by two respective magazines. David’s wife Kristin teaches math and technology. They are busy every weekend with their kids. Sophie, 11, plays basketball and volleyball; Owen, 8, baseball; and, Charlie, 6, soccer and basketball. Rich Ayres lives in Portland, and returned back to his old

firm, Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects. “Seems like the architecture world is starting to pick up! Looking forward to a better year in 2011.” Jeff Tadder, his wife, Anne, and their three girls live at the beach in San Diego. Jeff surfs when he can get out of the sorority house. Jeff and his team are still at Merrill Lynch in Rancho Santa Fe, where he is vice president and wealth management advisor. Brian Sher lives the dream in Los Angeles. His son Jake is now 9, and his daughter (my goddaughter) Samantha is 6. He now owns his own management production company, Category 5 Entertainment. Brian recently partnered with more clients including Eagles quarterback Michael Vick as well as TV icon Kelsey Grammer. Before the Monday night Redskins game last year, Brian was in town and I met with him and Vick at the hotel where the Eagles were staying. With his playbook on the table, we hung out for a while with Vick and drank hot tea (yes, tea). Vick was incredibly focused that evening, which translated the next evening into one of the greatest games of his career against the Redskins (after the game the Hall of Fame asked for Vick’s jersey). I’m glad he was not playing the Ravens. My wife Marnie and I and our 6-year-old twins Matthew and Skylar are growing roots in the Historic District of Annapolis. The twins are in kindergarten at Indian Creek School in Crownsville. I’m a partner with Baldwin Kagan & Gormley in Annapolis (a short walk from our house), where I focus on complex business and employment litigation for both individuals and businesses. I was appointed by the Mayor to the Ethics Commission for the City of Annapolis, and I serve on the Board of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. Marnie keeps busy on the Board of the Annapolis Historic Foundation and the Anne Arundel County Arts Council. I swim with the Masters at Navy, and I move okay for an ex-lineman. I plan to swim the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Swim (one mile) this summer. If anyone wants to join me, or if I missed you in these notes, please contact me, jkagan@bkglawfirm.com.

1987 Matt Wyskiel mwyskiel@gmail.com Tripp Burgunder hb3@hb3law.com Andy Barker is still in Vermont and still working for Ben & Jerry’s. He can be seen on YouTube from an appearance in October with a reporter and a stuffed cow discussing rBGH. Billy Barroll is vice president of asset management/ leasing for Corporate Office Properties Trust (COPT). He is responsible for the financial performance of a portfolio of buildings located in Baltimore, Anne Arundel and St. Mary’s Counties in Maryland, including The Corporate Park at Arundel Preserve, Airport Square and Lexington Park. His portfolio totals 67 buildings containing nearly three million square feet of office space.

Justin Bloom is a lawyer in private practice in Sarasota, Fla., where he represents clients in environmental and pharmaceutical injury litigation and environmental consulting. Kevin “Bubba” Buerger is the vice president of North American sales for Jellyfish, the United Kingdom’s leading agency dedicated to paid search. In June 2010, Jack Cavanaugh and Cavanaugh Capital Management joined Brown Advisory in Baltimore. Jack is now the head of fixed income at Brown Advisory. David Clapp lives in Baltimore with his wife, daughter and young son. David is Calvert School’s assistant head master. Sandy Colhoun, his wife Selina and daughter live in Sanbornton, N.H. Sandy is the director of development for the New Hampton School, an independent, college preparatory school for boarding and day students, grades 9-12 and postgraduate. Sackett Cook and his wife Felicity (a.k.a. Flop), two daughters and son are living in Connecticut. In 2010, Sackett joined Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn. His primary role is research analyst in Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn’s investment group focusing on international equities. Liam Culman is the managing director of Bigelow Sands, an art investment fund, and he is on the Board of Advisors for City Squash, a not-for-profit after-school enrichment program based in the Bronx at Fordham University. Andrew Fine has lived in Boston for nine years, the longest he’s lived anywhere since leaving Baltimore in 1987. “I miss the heart, soul and character of Charm City — it is unique. I also miss my family and friends. Yet we are happy in Boston.” Andrew is a pediatric emergency specialist at Children’s Hospital Boston, where he attends in the ER, and devotes 75 per cent of his time to research. His wife Laura is an ophthalmologist, and son Henry, 9, and daughter Hannah, 6, are happy, active, healthy and a lot of fun. “Last year, my folks and I took Henry to a Penn State football game, and we all had dinner at Joe Paterno’s house after the game!” Ted Fish is director of the Gardner Carney Leadership Institute, a national think tank that teaches independent school teachers and schools how to get their students to be leaders. (He thinks often of the impact of his Gilman teachers and, of course, Mr. Finney). He also takes the same passion for writing he developed at Gilman into teacher training at disadvantaged schools throughout his home state of New Mexico. He and his wife Nura travel and work extensively in Europe, Asia and Israel. Paul Garcia created and launched a new line of medicinal herbal teas that can be found at AztecHerbals.com. James Gerlach lives in Florida where he is the manager of systems administrators at Lexis Nexis. James manages a team of system administrators providing 24–7 support of enterprise computing systems in two large corporate data centers. Doug Godine is a managing director at Signal Hill in Baltimore. Doug leads Signal Hill’s institutional sales

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and trading team and serves on Signal Hill’s operating committee as well as maintaining primary coverage responsibilities for the firm’s largest accounts. Jon Guth and his wife Stacy welcomed daughter Rebecca in 2010. Older brother Miles is adjusting to the new sibling. Andrew Hawes is a client services manager at WebOffice at Cisco in the Boston area. Hugh “Ti” House is a physician with Chesapeake Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center. His special areas of interest include the hand, wrist, elbow, shoulder and knee. Brian Nottingham and his wife Beth celebrated the birth of their daughter Brynn on December 4, 2010. Jordan Kroop is a partner at the law firm Squire Sanders in Phoenix, Ariz. His practice emphasizes corporate bankruptcy, reorganization and restructuring matters. Jordan was in the 2011 edition of “The Best Lawyers in America.” Andrew Meredith and his wife and two sons live in Baltimore. Andrew works with the Meredith Group of Merrill Lynch in equity sales. Brent Powell is now the head of the Upper School at the Derryfield School in Manchester, N.H. Brent is an advisor to the school government and has been chair of the history department. Craig Scheir is the lead electrical engineer at LIC Dover, a world leader in engineered soft goods products for defense, commercial and NASA customers. Brian Voelker’s Drexel lacrosse team was 10–5 in 2010. His team beat four top-10 teams last year, including a big win over Notre Dame (7–6). Brian lives in Ardmore, Pa., with his wife Laura and children Jack and Brendan. Ethan Weiss is an assistant professor of medicine at University of California San Francisco, division of cardiology. He uses genetic models to enhance the understanding of the mechanism of blood clotting as it relates to coronary events. Matt Wyskiel lives near Gilman with his wife, daughter and son. His working hours are occupied by Skill Capital Management, which he founded about three years ago and which invests client assets in a low-cost tax-efficient fashion using Vanguard index mutual funds. In addition to time spent helping Calvert School, Gilman and Williams College, Matt is on the board of Children’s Scholarship Fund Baltimore, which provides partial scholarships to about 400 children of low-income Baltimore families so that they can attend the school of their choice (www.CSFBaltimore.org). Karlo Young was selected to receive the 2010 Baltimore Business Journal and Living Classrooms Foundation “Rising Star” Award. He also recently joined IT and Business Risk Management firm Inforistec as a firm director, after spending eight years at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Ken Zeitung is in real estate lending management as a consultant for USAA in San Antonio, Texas.

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1988 Greg Carter letgregknow@gmail.com With a new year comes a new author of the class of 1988 notes. I never thought I would be class secretary, but Justin Brown certainly has his hands full, so I gladly stepped up. Let’s join in thanking him for his years of service! “I am starting my 20th year here in the State of Jefferson (Northern California and Southern Oregon for those of you not familiar with that part of American history),” says John Alexander, who is living in Ashland, Ore., with Taylor, his lovely wife of 15 years (“We met at Evergreen College in 1989”), daughter Natalie (14, a gymnast) and son Henry (9, digs Legos, Star Wars and Harry Potter). John and Taylor rang in the New Year with their Grateful Dead family, including his brothers Tom ’83 and David ’85. In addition to skiing powder with the kids and finishing his Ph.D., John is running the Klamath Bird Observatory, a non-governmental organization he incorporated in 2000. You can join the KBO Facebook community at http://www.facebook.com/ pages/Klamath-Bird-Observatory/164820810224793 and learn more at http://www.KlamathBird.org. “Keep Alive, baby!” John cheers. “Lots of love to you all and all the best in 2011 and beyond!” Scott Anson lives in Redmond, Wash., near Seattle with his wife Regee, son Blair, 15 and daughter Emma, 12. He has been working with Microsoft as a software developer for nine years. He fills his spare time with soccer, running, rock climbing and contra dancing. Experiencing the ironic justice of parenting, Scott says, “My latest excitement comes from sitting in the passenger seat while my son learns to drive! Watch out!” Marc Aquino sends greetings to everyone. He lives in the Baltimore area and works as sales manager for Alliance Game Distributors. He is also writing for a local gaming website. Marc happened to have dinner and drinks with George Liebmann and Jere Morrel a few nights before I compiled these notes. George has finished his wine preservation system and is now looking to sell the company, Permafresh, so he can move to the Caribbean and do some writing. Jere, his wife Alexandra, and his four kids were looking for a new house. As Marc recounts, “But when they couldn’t find a place they liked, they decided to renovate their existing home, including a large addition, all of which is being documented on his Facebook page.” Justin Brown, who lives in Baltimore, had a busy year. He and his wife Kristen got married last New Year’s Eve and had their first child, Oscar, in August. Justin is a trial lawyer and he recently started his own firm, where he practices federal criminal defense and civil plaintiff’s work. Although his squash game has suffered since the baby came, he still gets to play a few times a week. He is especially grateful to Greg Carter for taking over the class notes! Marshall Brown lives in northern New Jersey and has three children. He is senior vice president at Robert Walters, an executive search firm in New York City.

Doug Kaufman ’90 and Evan Davis ’90 at the cookout and crab feast. The Class of 1990 gathered at Langermann’s the next evening for its 20th Reunion.

Marshall sees George Henderson and Mike Taylor every now and again. Randy Brown lives in Ellicott City with his wife Kelly and kids, Allison and Colin, and he works in software sales throughout the Mid-Atlantic area. Randy follows Gilman sports, cheering the soccer team’s 2010 MIAA “A” Conference championship. “Nice season!” Jon Owsley seconds Randy’s comment about Gilman soccer, adding, “Thankfully they did not follow our lead from the dark days of the program.” He is living in New Canaan, Conn., with his wife Katie and girls Macy, 7, Natalie, 5, and Georgi, 3. He is a partner in a private equity firm in Greenwich, Catterton Partners. Jon admits he’s done a crappy job of staying in touch with the Class of ’88, but he hopes everyone is well and is looking forward to reconnecting at our 25th. Things are going well in Roland Park for David Carroll and his family. Hudson is a fifth grade Greyhound, Hannah is a first grade Roland Park Country School Red who wears blue (“I’ve never understood that,” David admits) and Sumter is in preschool at Cedarcroft. “Darcy is doing well and as for me, the lobbying world is ever challenging, and sometimes rewarding,” David writes. He sees “a ton of” Brooks Kitchel, Kirby Von Kessler and Bret Bortner, but “not enough of” everyone else. I have seen Daniel Casasanto (Williams) a couple times in the past few years. He spent two years on the senior scientific staff at the Max Plank Institute in the Netherlands. His wife Laura held a postdoctoral fellowship there at the same time. As Daniel said, “Dutch food is not splendid, but we cook a lot.” More recently, Daniel and Laura solved the two-body problem prevalent among academic couples, securing tenure track jobs in the same state, New York. Hers is at SUNY Stony Brook, where they had a job open in sociolinguistics, and his is at The New School for Social Research, “a historically Marxist university in Greenwich Village,” and my alma mater. Over the holidays, Daniel wrote, “Laura and I are in our new house on Long Island, where we will move permanently in May or June. Francesca,

our daughter, is playing with her grandmother and grandfather, to their mutual delight.” Jamie Griffith happened to be coming for a visit to New York around the same time Daniel and I talked. “Happy New Year Everyone!” writes Key Compton, who is currently living in New York City with his wife Catherine and two sons, Andrew, 4, and Charlie, 1. Highlights from 2010 include: hot dogs and ice cream cones in Central Park, ski weekends in Southern Vermont, beach time with the family at the Jersey Shore and one too many business trips to San Francisco. Fava Design Group, Joe Fava’s interior design firm, just celebrated its eighth year of business keeping up with projects in Mississippi, Washington, D.C., Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New Jersey. His work has been featured in Chesapeake Home, Florida Design, Luxe Magazine, Elle Decor, City and Shore Magazine, Florida International and The Miami Herald. Joe continues to design many projects in Maryland, and he likes returning to his roots from time to time. “But for me,” Joe confesses, “nothing beats living by the beach in South Florida.” Matt Gordon married Marianne Michallet from Lyon, France, in July 2010. They live and work in New York City, where Matt is a producer on the A&E Channel show, “The First 48.” He also made a film, “The Dynamiter,” with the help of “so many Gilman guys’ investment — Murf and Drit and Sue-Joe and Timmy Hath.” Gordo’s film, a coming-of-age drama, has been accepted into the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival.” As Sue-Joe admits, “Basically, I just wanted entrance to all the Hollywood parties.” Proud to be part of the crew that has invested in “The Dynamiter,” Sue-Joe Shin still lives in the Los Angeles area, in Manhattan Beach. His wife Sara expected their first child in February. “We don’t have a name yet but all of the following have been rejected by my wife: Thor, Optimus Prime, Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee.” He adds, “Maximus is still in the running. But I bet we end up with a Korean name given by my dad, which is a tradition.” (Not naming your child after

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Former Gilman teacher and coach David Chae (standing, center) visited with some of students, all from the Class of 1993 (seated left to right): Charlie Fenwick, Peter McGill, Lou Kousouris and Armand Tagazadeh. Chae worked at Gilman from 1985–1996; he is now lead pastor at Great Exchange Covenant Church in Santa Clara, Calif.

Russell Crowe’s gladiator is a sensible tradition all around the world.) Sue-Joe was glad to see Marshall Brown last year in New York. “Congrats to Sue-Joe!” Steve Kang writes, adding, “Kim Jong-Il has a nice ring to it.” Steve is still living in the East Bay of San Francisco with his three kids, Amanda, 8, Ryan, 6, and Brendan, 3, and his wife Gail. He is practicing cardiac electrophysiology in Oakland. Ethan Graham defended his dissertation in clinical psychology at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University in 2008. His work is on the relationship of silence and affect valence to the referential process in psychoanalytic sessions. (I understood what this is for a moment when Ethan first explained it to me.) Still living in Brooklyn, Ethan is married with two children: a 1½-year-old girl and a 4½-year-old boy. “I’m trying to balance parenthood with developing a private practice and passing the halfway mark in my psychoanalytic training.” Andy Gross and his wife Jill just had their first boy on November 30, bringing their grand total of kids to four. He adds, in case you don’t want to do the math, “We already had three daughters.” They named him Abraham Jerome Gross, after Andy’s father, who passed away in November 2009. He is still an assistant professor of Semitic languages at the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., and they live in Pikesville. George K.D. Hopkins, (formerly G. K. Dritsas, a.k.a. Drit), cites 2010 as a “banner year personally and professionally.” His immediate family is closer than they have been in some time, getting closer again every day. In February he accepted an offer to work as the head of student affairs at an incredibly unique boarding school, Qatar Leadership Academy. Drit writes, “What I appreciate most about it is the opportunity to deepen my cultural, social and political understanding of the world and the nature of leadership.” He has lived

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overseas for six years now: three in Greece, two in Jordan and one in Qatar. Looking forward to reconnecting with everyone in person rather than the virtual way, he intends to return to the United States in the not-so-distant future. Still a Ravens fan, even though he lives in Indianapolis, Tom Kaplan works as an orthopedic hand surgeon, also researching Dupuytren’s disease, an abnormal thickening of the tissue just beneath the skin. He and his wife Linda have four kids: Cassie, 8, Tommy, 6½, Chloe, 5½, and Kaitlyn, 2½. Tom recently saw Charles Edwards and Jere Morrel in Baltimore. Living in Long Beach, Calif., Geoff Kinsey is director of research and development at Amonix, a utility-scale solar energy company. Farther up the California coast, Chip Linehan just passed the 15-year mark in San Francisco, and still loves it out there. He confesses, “I do miss my family, Maryland crab cakes and being called ‘Hon’ by complete strangers.” His son Cormac is seventeen months old, and he and Molly are having a blast watching him grow. Mark Pfeifer still lives in Arlington, Va., working with the Military Sealift Command, the noncombatant, civilian-crewed ships that replenish U.S. Navy ships. “In addition,” Mark says, in The Dark Knight’s ClintEastwood-plus-grizzly-bear voice, “I continue to fight crime and help the community as an auxiliary sergeant with the Arlington County Police Department.” In his spare time, Mark has been trying to get out and travel the world more. He just recently returned from a trip to Costa Rica. Currently at Guilford Elementary/Middle School, Ted Smith has been teaching and coaching in the Baltimore City Public School System for 15 years. Along with track and field, he is active with the National Academic League, making it to the national competition two years straight. Ted coordinates an excellent partnership with Bryn Mawr School. The girls’ school

students tutor his children once a week, proving to be “an integral part of our success.” A year ago, Ted was one of 12 honored in “Heroes in Our Midst,” the exhibit celebrating modern day heroes at the Walters Art Gallery. He also appeared on the Education Channel. Kirby Von Kessler writes in, hoping to find everyone from our class well. Kirby sends congratulations to everyone for their family additions and career successes. He looks forward to seeing everyone at the 25th reunion. He has been back in Baltimore since 2006 with his wife Halle, daughter Stella, 5½, and son Everett, 2½. He keeps busy stopping the former from skiing under the ropes and the latter from somersaulting off the couch. Kirby works in clinical research and development for a small pharmaceutical company in Silver Spring. As Justin Brown informs me, “Kirby has also become an outstanding fantasy football player and aspires to someday be the commissioner of his league.” He regularly hangs out in some of his old Baltimore stomping grounds with Bret Bortner and Brooks Kitchel. Speaking of whom, Bret is settling into life in Baltimore after moving back here from Atlanta a few years ago. His son Mason and daughters Eve and Katherine are all up-and-coming lacrosse players. Bret is in sales (computer systems) and regularly is his company’s top performing salesman. Charlie Cahn is in his seventh year as headmaster at Suffield Academy. He reports that the family — wife Hillary and children Harrison and Peyton — are doing well. “We live in Harrison, Maine, in the summertime and enjoy watching our son and daughter grow here.” Since seeing many of you at our 20th Reunion, things continue to go well for me at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where I am an assistant professor of history, and my wife, Natasha B. Sugiyama, is a political science professor. This city reminds me a lot of Baltimore — “but with bratwurst instead of crabs,” as Kirby succinctly put it. Even with its charm, we still go somewhere sunny every winter. This year it’ll be the Riviera Maya in Mexico. My first book,”The United States of the United Races,” a history of positive ideas about racial mixing throughout U.S. history, is in process with New York University Press, with an expected publication date later this year. I continue to have what Justin calls “a larger-than-life cyber-presence” on Facebook. Well, at least larger than most. I look forward to keeping in touch with everyone. Feel free to drop me a line any time.

1991 Andrew Stanley astanley@collegiate-va.org While we didn’t hear from too many guys this year, it was great catching up with those who checked in. Greg Levin lives in Charlotte, N.C., and 2010 marked his 10th year with NBC News Channel. He started out freelancing in the Archives Department, and he works currently as a morning editor/producer. His work is seen on NBC affiliates around the country as well as

MSNBC, CNBC and NBC News. Greg is proud to have placed another check on the “bucket list” after completing the Charlotte Thunder Road Marathon. He said he ran into Eric Davis and his brothers after a PanthersRavens game as well. Rich Brueckner still lives in Ocean City. He wrote to recount his recent visit to Gilman, where he took in the new additions to campus and spent some time with Athan Sunderland and his family. Rich is still heading up the Gang and Firearms Prosecution Unit of the State’s Attorney’s Office and serving Maryland as an assistant state’s attorney. He recently was asked to serve on the Maryland State Bar’s Lawyer’s Assistance Program, and he has enjoyed helping attorneys throughout our state. He is eager to return to Central America this March-April for his annual surf pilgrimage to recharge the batteries. Lou Dimitri moved to York, Pa., after getting married in 2005. He has a 2 1/2 year old son named Christopher. Lou works for Verizon in Hunt Valley. Spencer Garrett is in San Francisco working in the food and wine industry. He was home for the holidays and reported that he caught up with Bill Randall and his family. Bill lives in Woodstock and works in Timonium for PayPal. He has two sons and is continuing the Gilman tradition in his family. In addition to seeing Spencer, Bill saw Damon Young and his fiancée over Thanksgiving. Damon is still out west and had a big year. His short film, “5” (spoofing the television show “24,” found at http://www.5themovie.com) won the Best Short Award at the 2010 Stay Tuned TV Awards (http://www. staytunedtv.net/banquet.php), and he began working for A2Z Development, which is the software engineering subsidiary of Amazon.com, managing a team that is building all sorts of new things in the mobile technology space. John Pfaff checked in from San Diego where he reports that he sees Jeff ’86 and Tim Tadder ’90 frequently. He, his wife Kelly, now joined by children Aiden, 5, and Caroline, 2, have lived in Encinitas for about 10 years. They recently had a visit from the Sunderlands while on a family vacation out west. John is still in the IT business, serving as the president for Trace3. Not much has changed for me. I am still in Richmond, Va., working in the Admission Office and as an athletic director at Collegiate School. Meaghan and I have three kids. Our daughter Drew is 6, our sons Fitz and Ty are 4 and 18 months respectively. I am happy to say that I got to see the Gilman lacrosse team first hand in the spring of 2010 for the first time since I graduated when Brooks Matthews ‘87 brought the squad to Richmond for a game against the team I coach at Collegiate School. After the game, both teams and their fans gathered for a dinner in our cafeteria organized by the Collegiate and Gilman parents. When the meal was over and Gilman was on the way out of town, the kids I coach and their parents commented not about their disappointment in losing the game, but about how impressed they were with the skill, conduct and class displayed by everyone on the field and in the stands associated with the Gilman lacrosse program. It was a great moment to be an alumnus. Thanks, Brooks.

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1992 Jonathan Scott Goldman goldman-js@blankrome.com According to the Gilman School website, Cheo D. Hurley is the vice president of the Alumni Association Board of Governors. Like many of you, I remember Cheo (fondly) as an 18-year-old punk like the rest of us. Apparently, he has ascended to Greyhound BOG material. Cheo and wife Zenita welcomed 7-pound, 10-ounce, 21-inch Carter Ellis Hurley to the world on November 3, 2010. Carter is a happy baby, and the family is enjoying time with him. Cheo still works for Park Heights Renaissance, where he is attempting to redevelop the neighborhood and change lives in a positive manner. He reports that it is tough work, especially with the economy looking the way it does. In his “spare time,” Cheo has been busy with his Gilman Alumni activities including a recent official trip to the West Coast (L.A. and San Fran) where he saw Aaron Jensen, Dana Underwood, Geoff Berry and Stacy Manley ’91. Cheo reports that he will be president of the Gilman Alumni Association next year — just in time for our 20th Reunion. But you’ve got to come back, and give back, to see it. Incoming President Hurley urges that you do so. Geoff Berry lives in Vegas with his wife Tracy and son Chris. It will not surprise you that Geoff is still flying planes. It may surprise you, however, that he is no longer flying with the U.S. Navy. Rather, Geoff may be in the cockpit the next time you take Southwest. You are now free to move about the country. Colin Pine writes from farthest away, but his e-mail arrived almost instantaneously. He is still living in Shanghai and working for the NBA. Colin writes that he tries to travel often and has made recent trips to Mt. Kinabalu in Borneo and to Japan for skiing. Colin gets back to Baltimore about twice a year and always gets together with Antoine Hutchinson. In August, Colin met Aaron Jensen in the lobby of his hotel in Shanghai for coffee. The two reconnected after Colin noticed that Aaron was a frequent visitor to China—in the Class of ’92 update. Really. Also abroad, Alan Cranston, wife Melissa and their boys William, 4, and Chase, 2, are still in Paris. He thinks of his Gilman French teachers often. Steve Hobbs writes from the West Coast, Seattle, to be precise, where he lives with his wife Caroline and their three kids. The Hobbses have identical twin 20-month-old daughters, Abigail and Elizabeth, and a 4½-year-old son Teddy. Steve works as a project manager for a general contractor. Richard Baker lives in L.A. with wife Micheli. Rich works as a freelance producer and editor. He is looking forward to our 20th Reunion. Ben Jones wrote in from Ohio, where he is the vice president of communications for Oberlin College. I actually saw him quoted in The New York Times this year. Or last. Ben is mad at the East Coasters for stealing his snow so far this season but reports that he is happy holding down the same job and living in the same house

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with the same wife and kids. I’ve met them. He should be happy — they’re pretty swell. The house does have a new roof, but that hasn’t stopped Ben from having what he calls a “pre-mid-life crisis.” Tell Ben he doesn’t need an Audi. Just come to our 20th Reunion. Embrace it. Paul R. Lee writes that he is now a chief resident at Johns Hopkins in child neurology. His and Deanna’s third child (gender not known) was born in March 2011. Paul accepted a clinical fellowship in neuroimmunology at the National Institutes of Health to start in July and end in a few years. Ever self-effacing, Paul offered his rationale for the fellowship: “[Y]ou can never, ever have too much training. And real jobs are so overrated.” I’m not a doctor (or a math major) but I think Dr. Lee is still in school. Though being publically called out on the creativity front last year, Paul reports that he has a few scientific publications in the works but no creative output to speak of as yet. Too much coursework. Paul’s older son Edward is enjoying second grade at Gilman, and he really enjoys Miss Alpert’s writing class. Paul reports that he warned Edward to keep his Dungeons and Dragons books away from her lest Ms. Alpert confiscate two generations’ worth of gaming. George Hardy and his wife live in Rhode Island with their daughter Maggie, who is in good hands. When he’s not at home, Dr. Hardy works at a medical pediatric practice nearby. Andrew Monfried writes from in Dallas, Texas, where he lives with his lovely wife and fantastic 3-year-old daughter. (Full disclosure: I’ve never met them, but Monfried swears that they are “lovely” and “fantastic.” And I buy it). Andrew works as a business development strategist for Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP. He also reports with considerable angst that, because he accepted money from outside boosters in second grade, he must return the Tire Roll championship title from Field Day in 1982. He would like to congratulate runner-up Zach Nipper as a true and honest champion and accepts his lifetime ban from Lower School athletic competitions. Though I can’t believe it’s true, Mike — ahem — Doctor Mike Anvari writes in with what he says is his first update in 19 years. The update: he’s local. Mike moved back to Baltimore from Arizona last year. He works as an orthopod and lives in Reisterstown. Toby Bozzuto was named to The Daily Record’s “Successful by 40” list this year. In seemingly related news, the Bozzuto Development Company recently formed a $150 million equity joint venture with Penny Pritzker for new development opportunities in the greater Baltimore/Washington area. With all of this career activity, Toby writes that he is “extremely happy chasing around my three children under six years old!” That seems like a full-time job. Josh Civin and wife Katherine also live in Baltimore. Their son Marshall turned three in February and attends the Bryn Mawr Little School. On some weekend days, father and son can be found on the Gilman Lower School playground. Josh continues to work as a civil rights attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc (LDF). Recently, he successfully argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

Mustang Alley’s Bar, Bowling and Bistro provided a spirited backdrop for the Class of 1995 15th Reunion. No word on who bowled best. . . .

Fifth Circuit representing LDF and the University of Texas at Austin’s Black Student Alliance as friends of the court in defense of the University’s race-conscious admissions policy. Last year, the Civin and Goldman families met up at the Philadelphia Please Touch Museum as Josh and family were passing through town. A good time was had by all. Mark Manzo writes from Canton in Baltimore where he lives with his Weimaraner. He is a mobile application producer, real estate developer and angel investor. David “Davey” Iglehart is also in Baltimore where he lives with daughters Maddie, 3, and Scarlett, 5, and wife November. He appraises houses. Matt Hodson is back in Baltimore as well. Matt writes that he is working on a new business in construction, still single, and is “enjoying minimal responsibility for a change.” Also in Baltimore, Reed Cordish married Margaret Katz in the past year at their home. Reed is a vice president responsible for the development and management of the entertainment and restaurant division at the Cordish Company. Jason Epstein was at Reed’s wedding and said a great time was had by all. Jason lives in Larchmont, N.Y., with his wife Marissa and daughters Chelsea and Madison. He is a principal at DCR Companies, which invests in real estate.

Aaron Wax is also in New York, where he works as a corporate attorney at Paul Weiss. Stefan Virizlay reports that all is well with him and his family in Edison, N.J. Stefan coaches his 9-year-old son Jakob’s rec basketball team and coaches travel soccer for Jakob in the spring and fall. Stefan’s younger son Matej is now 6 and surely is trying to keep up. Stefan still enjoys his job at Otis Elevator. He keeps in touch with Matt Enna regularly, and he will be coming down with the family for an O’s game in April. Maybe Marty Rochlin will be at that April game. Marty writes that he continues to work as an assistant principal, although he has left the friendly confines of Frederick County Public Schools to join Baltimore County. He lives in Ellicott City with his wife Pam and daughter Lilly, a first grader. Though this could be said of every year since our graduation, Marty offers: “Foolishly, I think this may be the O’s year.” James Guyton and wife Kate continue to enjoy their home in Baltimore and the fun of raising Charlie, 8, George, 6, and Lucy, 2. James also enjoys running into classmates in Washington, D.C., from time to time. No word on whether James has run into Ben Temchine in the nation’s capital, but Ben writes that he is more firmly rooted in D.C. a year after the move from San Francisco with his wife Mikaela and son Asher. Ben reports that his life has been “completely absorbed” into Situate, a media startup he’s launching with a partner in San Fran. Here’s what Ben says: “What kind of startup

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Chris Atkins ’02 and his wife Kelly Mulford and Drew DeLoskey ’02 with his girlfriend Emily Roche.

you ask? You all know museum tours? Stand in front of a picture, earphones, they talk and all of a sudden you’re seeing a whole new world, right? We’re bringing that to iPhones, but using the GPS and audio players in smart phones [and] extending [it] to the whole planet. It’s an app which plays the tours and accesses the store where you can find more. There’s also going to be subscription based geo-tagged audio (think hyper-local reporting delivered locally) and a record button so anyone can create tours or leave individual stories that are designed to be listened to in the places that we love.” Ben invites comment and capital at ben@situateyourself.com. Lillian Burgunder would be proud. David Olsen is also in D.C., where he lives with his wife Heather. David is participating in the Army’s year-long Interagency Fellowship program at the State Department, learning how the civilian side of the federal government works. I guess he opted out of Dr. Thornbery’s American Government. The Olsens expected their first baby, a girl, in May. Also in D.C., Ned Moran married in October. He runs cyber threat intelligence analysis at a private firm, and he is still an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. He could tell you more, but he’d have to kill you. Gus Kohilas writes from Northern Virginia where he lives with wife Athina and kids Georgia and Theodossi. Gus has been working at Fairfax Hospital as an ER doc for about seven years. Hall Kesmodel and wife Caroline had a baby girl on September 5, 2010. Jane joins her sister Chloe, who turned four in February 2011. About six months ago, Hall started working for a new company called HelloWallet. Their mission is to democratize access to unbiased personal financial guidance though a new online service that they make available through large employers and 401(k) providers.

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H.G. Chissell and his family live near me in a suburb of Philadelphia, though I confess that I do not see him nearly enough. H.G. recently returned from an annual solar pilgrimage to Acapulco, where he first met his wife Cecilia. Their daughter Mariana turns six in April and son Emilio turns one in May. H.G. is doing business development for a Philly smart grid startup called Viridity Energy. Like many of us, he has taken on some side jobs. His include: landlord, corporate sustainability organizer and promoter of Latin nights and reggae happy hours at a local establishment. Ben Mednick and wife Stacey completed a total renovation of their 140-year-old house in downtown Annapolis. Over the course of about a full year, they gutted and extended the whole house. They moved back in on January 1. Otherwise, Ben reports that daughters Anna, 7, and Jackie, 5, are doing great at the Key School. Ben recently got them to ski down a mountain without falling. On the work front, Stacey and Ben are working hard at their family group of companies, East Coast Tile Imports. They also continue to invest in commercial real estate. The Mednicks don’t plan to travel as much in 2011 in order to stay close to their renovated home, so Ben invites anyone who is ever in the Annapolis area to drop by. As for me, I still live outside of Philadelphia with my family. But my family recently grew. Asher Emmet Goldman was born on October 8, 2010. He joins Max Elijah Goldman, 6, and my wife Rachel. I still work at law firm Blank Rome LLP, where I help businesses and individuals resolve business disputes — I’m a commercial litigator. My side jobs include artist and Gilman Class of 1992 class agent. A quick story. About 10 years ago, I lived in Baltimore and was set to go on one of my first real dates with a girl who was coming to visit from D.C. Late afternoon the phone rings and a familiar voice

announces: “The boys are back in town!” After figuring out that it was Ben Jones on the line, I realized that I had completely forgotten about our 10th Reunion. Embarrassed, I postponed the date. I attended the reunion. I married the girl. Moral: mark your calendars now. But even if you don’t, the boys will be back in town. See you at our 20th!

1993 Kevin Scott enjoys the opportunity to continue research into improving access to care for vulnerable and socially complex populations (refugees/asylees and homeless). “I also feel fortunate to be able to provide primary care to individuals and families I’ve known now for more than five years!” he writes. “I’m looking forward to more excitement in the year to come with a new home in the spring and our first child due in June. I would love to catch up with Gilman folks here in Philly or back down in Baltimore. Please drop a line if you have a chance!”

1994 Ryan Isaac ryan.l.isaac@gmail.com It seems only fitting to start our class updates with the man who led us alphabetically from our first day of first grade. Judah Adashi writes, “I continue to write music, teach at the Peabody Institute — where I’m also hoping to finish my doctoral degree in the coming months — and direct a concert series in town (our onetime classmate Curtis Cooper stopped by earlier this season; I would love to see others). You can get a better sense of what I’m up to musically at www.judahadashi.com. Otherwise, I’m a huge Ravens fan, happily living in Federal Hill. Best wishes to everyone!” Mark Wertheimer, who was at the other end of that first grade alphabetical kickball lineup, checks in: “2010 was an amazing year for me. I started the year by completing construction on my home in Oak Creek, Colo. — a small town of about 850 people about 20 minutes south of Steamboat Springs in rural northwest Colorado. In the spring, I married a wonderful woman named Kim Brooks. We wasted no time and had a baby boy named Henry Wertheimer early this winter. Having a baby has been by far the most exciting and important part of my life so far! On the work side of my life, I have taken on a new position as associate director of the same non-profit organization I have been working with for the last five years, Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (RMYC). We engage mainstream young adults in outdoor-based service projects while developing their life skills to empower them to lead healthy, productive lives. RMYC proudly has grown despite the economy and has recently acquired our own property and office facility in Steamboat Springs. Come out and visit! Finally, I can report that Luke Suchy was married to a wonderful woman named Kim in June 2010

in Boulder, Colo. Luke is currently enrolled at CU-Denver’s master’s in landscape architecture program and lives in Boulder.” Chris Niemeyer and his wife Natasha are enjoying their fifth year of marriage. Chris is approaching 11 years with Springboard Media in Philadelphia as an Apple technician and network engineer. Natasha, having known almost no English when she moved here, is getting ready to apply for nursing schools, although criminology may divert her first. They enjoy cooking together, Monday night Ping Pong in the basement, movies on the projector screen, snowboarding in the winter and waves and tennis in the summer. Natasha can’t wait for their next trip home to Russia in June. Evan Goldman, a proud Gilman parent, writes that all is well in Charm City. “Jack is 7 and loving first grade at Gilman. Emma, 4, is disappointed that she cannot go to what Jack swears is the best school in the world.” This past year, Landon Davies and his wife Katie welcomed their third daughter, Teagan Brooke Davies. They also moved to a new house in Ellicott City. Speaking of three daughters, Rafael Haciski still practices civil litigation/business litigation in Philadelphia. He and his wife Christina live in Haddonfield, N.J., with their three girls, Halina, 6, Julia, 4, and Patricia, 2. Raf is a member of the Haddonfield Budget Review Committee, as well as an advisory board member of the Canuso Foundation (fighting pediatric cancer). Recently, the Haciskis bought an old house in town and have started renovations to accommodate the family. Raf says the party is at his place once the house is ready. Tom Coleman, who doesn’t live too far from the Haciski household, writes: “In the coming year, the Colemans hope to add to their little family, and I hope to finish my first 50-mile trail race at Bull Run, Va., one challenge being tougher than the other.” Mike Kim, always a man of many words, says, “The only news I have is that I got married last November. A whole slew of our class got hitched in 2010.” Thanks, Mike. Matt Wise lives in Venice, Calf., 50 yards from the beach. He fronts a band called Get Licious; they’ve placed music on MTV’s “The Hills,” CW’s “Runaway” and “Aliens in America,” and on an upcoming funnyordie. com webisode. In addition to music, Matt owns an event and public relations company that has represented Rolling Stone and Variety magazines and Universal Motown Records, among others. Jason Finkelstein, Jacob Beverage and Alex Katz spent a quality evening together at an alumni event in San Francisco. Jason and his wife, Marla, are enjoying parenthood — their son Ethan turned one last August. Jacob and his wife Jennifer recently returned to San Francisco from Austin, Texas. “Aside from the dreary, foggy summer, we are happy to be back. Luke celebrated his third birthday here. He’s as energetic as ever.” Jacob completed a two-year commercial rotation program at Genentech, and he started a new position in the company’s medical affairs area. He keeps up with Prem Kumta, John Ward and Luke Suchy, who all live on the West Coast.

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Sean Tyszko wrote: “Nothing new to report here. Still stationed in Portsmouth, Va., with the Navy, working as a staff radiologist at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. Married with two kids (5 and 2 years old). Another military man, Art Swartout, writes, “About to head overseas for my second deployment — this time to Afghanistan. I’ll be leading company of soldiers (approximately 120 men and women) who provide logistical support to, and live and fight alongside the infantry. We’ll be occupying a piece of ground in the Arghandab River Valley, west of Kandahar.” Djillali Zerhouni left a position as an assistant United States attorney in Miami to become chief executive officer of The Zerhouni Group, a consulting and decision intelligence firm based in Columbia, Md. He resides in Columbia with his wife and children. “I was recently elected to the membership of Stites & Harbison, PLLC, where I am an intellectual property manager,” reports Randy Michels. I recently moved to Phoenix, where I’m working for the Arizona Diamondbacks. My first few months with the D-Backs have been challenging and gratifying. If any of you find yourselves out here in the desert, please let me know.

educational technology and NBC News that he is co-writing for MIT Press. Kevin Frank has moved to Dallas, Texas, where’s he accepted an in-house position as federal regulatory counsel with Atmos Energy. He has been assured that he gets the company seats to the Orioles/Rangers series each summer, so check the schedule before planning a visit. Steve Beyer and his family continue to live in King of Prussia, Pa. Steve ran the Philadelphia Marathon in 2010, his first. Tony Barco recently moved back to Baltimore from D.C. with his three sons. He works as a contractor for the Social Security Administration. He is also in the process of fabricating and patenting a couple of inventions involving green energy. Since I didn’t have updates from other classmates, I suggest logging on to Facebook, where well over half the class is now represented, and joining the “Gilman School Class of 1996” group. Shoot me a note at kowarski@kasina.com with any updates for next year’s Class Notes or if you are coming to New York and want to grab a meal, or just connect to me via Facebook (www.facebook.com/kowarski).

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“My wife and I had a baby, Isabel Storm Salmon, in May, then moved to London in July because of a great job opportunity,” reports Morgan Salmon. “We live in Kensington and I community to Canary Wharf every day. We love living and traveling in Europe. Cheers!”

I apologize that this year’s Class Notes are so brief. Melinda and I took an amazing vacation to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing in October to celebrate her Ph.D. and time just flew by since we returned. All of a sudden, it is 2011 and I barely had time to do any research. Luckily, we could all catch up at our 15th Reunion (May 13 –14). Here are the updates that I do have: Brett Brandau had a fun wedding in the Inner Harbor in April. He lives with his wife and two dogs in Wilmington and continues to work for Bank of America. Evan Kreitzer and his wife Keren still live in Owings Mills with their two boys, Coby and new baby Sam. Evan continues to work in mortgages with American Bank while cheering on the Ravens. Evan reports that Chris Tully passed the Maryland State Bar and is now an associate at Tydings and Rosenberg, and that Chris lives in Baltimore City with his wife Jodi. Jack Finney is moving to Philadelphia to start a project converting a historic theater into a restaurant and meeting space, with a hotel to follow. He notes that he ran into Damien Davis ’99 in line for the urinal at the Ravens/Chiefs game in Kansas City. Jake Rothwell lives in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, and works for International SOS. Jason Haas had a lovely wedding in Arlington, Mass., in October, after which he took a honeymoon in Italy. He continues to work at the MIT Education Arcade and also had a couple of financial literacy games published. Jason is currently finishing up a book about

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1998 Chad Prather cprather@aol.com One of my students told me today that the world is going to end in 2012. Something about pink robots and a solstice. The same student later had trouble identifying Canada on a map, so I’m not really concerned. But on the oft chance that the robots do win, let me just say to my classmates: I have thoroughly enjoyed reporting your news . . . and making some of it up (Kevin, Justin, Tom, in particular). And now, without further delay, here’s what could be our last notes ever: Steve Beverage works for Wells Fargo and lives in San Francisco with his wife Rochelle. His Facebook picture (I am not ashamed to stalk) suggests that Steve remains loyal to the O’s — no doubt having to explain to the good San Franciscans that the Orioles are, in fact, a Major League baseball team. Will Brassel recently began his post business-school career with Johnson & Johnson just outside Princeton, N.J. He is managing the J&J RED CROSS brand. Will and his wife Jill live in Newtown, Pa., which no doubt is quite lovely in the fall.

Has it really been five years since these guys graduated? The Class of 2005 gathers for the first of many reunions at Meli Patisserie & Bistro in Fells Point.

Steve Burns is living in Arlington and is still a lawyer. I am told that Steve shed his “smooth operator” costume this past Halloween in order to dress up like the “Shake Weight” guy. If anyone has any photos of that, I’ll need them. Stuart Cherry is practicing law in Baltimore with Rosenberg | Martin | Greenberg, LLP, in its litigation department. Stu lives in Pikesville with his wife Stephanie and son Nate, 2. Kevin Culbertson and wife Tina are happily expecting the birth of their first child this July. Kevin’s suggestion that they name the child Prince Kevin Culbertson was rejected by Tina as “pitiful and dumb.” So they’ll just have to go with Chad. Or Chadleyann (for a girl, that is, or for a very dainty boy). Kevin wrote in his update that he wants the kid “to grow up to be an astronaut.” I can pretty much guarantee that isn’t going to happen. And we can only hope the child looks like Tina. Kathrin and Nick Funk are the proud parents of Brennan Basilio Funk, who was born March 31, 2010. Nick continues to work for Schaefer Construction in Baltimore. He is also one of my best good friends, and I am not ashamed to say that I have had a man-crush on him for quite some time. Pat Gill is engaged to be married in Beaver Creek, Colo., in August to his fiancée Emily Jo Campbell. He is currently practicing law in Hunt Valley, representing commercial lenders in loan documentation transactions, commercial workouts, foreclosures, bankruptcy matters and related litigation. Scott Homa still lives in D.C., and he recently bought a townhouse in Georgetown. He is the proud parent of a 2-year-old wheaten terrier named Pepper (named for the

great ball yard game of Pepper). To bring home the bacon, Scott works as a Mid-Atlantic research director for the commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle. (Hey, Scott, do you remember that day you were playing second base and you missed a ball or something and one of the coaches suggested that the maintenance crew come out and “put up a tent because this is a circus???” That was funny.) Alex Iliff continues to dwell in Minneapolis where it is very, very cold. Oppressively cold. But Brother Love is happy reppin’ the 55417 with wife Lisa. To afford the cost of heat, Alex works at the law firm of Dorsey & Whitney. His duties there involve the law. In his spare time, Alex manages a Leo Gomez Appreciation Club. When Marshall Johnson received my request for an update, he sent this: “I am in a meeting with my bosses discussing contracts for people who make more money than me. My dream is still to one day have a public restroom and/or drinking fountain named in my honor.” Marshmallow lives in New York, although he spent the better part of this past year in Detroit. (When I heard this news, I quickly sent my condolences. But he said Detroit is actually a really cool town. Nonsense.) Landis Kauffman has been living in San Francisco for the past year-and-a-half and designing the interiors of Gap stores in North America and overseas. Outside of work, Landis and his girlfriend spend most of their free time enjoying the outdoor lifestyle of the Bay Area. Both are looking forward this year to participating in a few runs and rides (on bikes, that is, not on elephants or something). Joe Logan started Logan Aggregate Recycling, Inc, in 2010. His company provides on-site

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Teaching for America: Hal Turner ’05

If you were around the University of Virginia this past spring, you may have seen the face of a smiling young man beaming at you from a Teach for America recruitment flyer hanging throughout the Grounds. If you were also a fairly recent Gilman graduate, you may have recognized that young man as Hal Turner ’05. For 2011, the Teach for America regional recruiting office chose to feature Turner for its UVA recruitment materials. Turner, a 2009 UVA graduate, recently completed the final months of his two-year commitment to teach in one of the 39 urban or rural regions that the organization serves. Two years ago, as he prepared to graduate from Mr. Jefferson’s university, Turner found himself at a crossroads, faced with which path to choose, enter the Coast Guard or join Teach for America. The choices may seem disparate, but not so much when you consider that service is at the heart of both. But why the Coast Guard, of all the military branches? “The Coast Guard is always doing something useful, important every day — whether community service, supporting the environment or preserving national security,” he says. Those familiar with the Turner family may not be surprised by Turner’s decision to enter the Teach for America corps. After all, his mother Iva Turner is the head of the Gilman Upper School; his father H. Mebane Turner is the retired president of the University of Baltimore; his brother Andy Martire ‘89 is head master at Calvert School. Yet, despite the long lineage of teachers, Hal says he didn’t feel any pressure to go into the “family business.” He has spent the last two years teaching at KIPP Center City Academy, a charter school for boys in New Orleans. He works as a special education teacher, instructing high-need seventh-grade students with behavioral issues. These are children who are disruptive in a normal classroom — and Middle School — environment. They have been removed from the typical Middle School schedule,

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where they would move between classes and teachers for subject instruction, to a more controlled homeroomtype setting. Turner is the primary classroom teacher, and instructs all subjects, much like a Gilman Lower School homeroom teacher. “We call my class ‘Camp Turner’,” he says. A primary goal of Teach for America is to help disadvantaged children access education. The goal for Turner’s students is also much more immediate: earn the privilege to return to the regular classroom so that they are able to access that education, in Middle School and beyond. Turner is empathetic to his students, and he’s realized that he enjoys the Middle School age. Those days and months, grades six through eight, are a time of great change for an adolescent, when kids prepare for high school and develop who they are, their sense of self, morality and proper behavior. When asked what he’s learned most being a teacher, he answers with one word: “Patience.” It seems decision making arrives in pairs for Turner. Two years ago, he chose teaching over military service. Two years later, he faces a similar choice. He’s been accepted into the Student Practice in Higher Education (SAPHE) master’s of education program at UVA, but he’s also waiting to hear from the Coast Guard Academy’s Officer Candidate School. Should he earn and accept his commission, he will reapply to the SAPHE program after his service. Regardless of whether he chooses to serve in the Coast Guard or continue straight to graduate school, Turner foresees an eventual career in education, perhaps as an Upper School art history teacher (his undergraduate major) or in education administration. Must be in the genes. . . . Turner’s Gilman classmate Noel Fetting-Smith ’05 is also a member of the Teach for America corps in New Orleans. FettingSmith has just completed the first year of his commitment.

Isaac Boltansky ’05 and Malcolm Ruff ’05 at the Bull Roast.

recycling of concrete and asphalt, keeping discarded concrete materials out of landfills, saving greatly on transportation costs and reducing the purchase of quarried stone (www.loganaggregaterecycling.com). Joe’s company was featured in the December 2010 issue of Recycling Today magazine. Beyond work, Joe and wife Michelle live in Richmond, Va., with daughter Mary Ellis and son Galvin. Sandy London has made a transition from writing about places like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran and Burma, to writing middle grade adventure novels. The first book in his new series, “We Are Not Eaten By Yaks: An Accidental Adventure,” is out from Penguin Books for Young Readers, and there are three more books in the pipeline. In this new line of writing Sandy spends much of his time imagining different ways to put two 11-year-olds in grave danger. Additionally, Sandy is serving a term as chair of the associate board of the literacy organization LitWorld. LitWorld is building communities of readers from Harlem to Baghdad and Los Angeles to Liberia. Definitely cool. Sandy remains in Brooklyn with his partner Tim, his dog and his dog’s many outfits. Jonathan Markham lives in Manhattan and works at Ingalls & Snyder as a value investor, conducting business with a wide range of companies from domestic energy to Australian gold producers. Lately, Jon has been most active in biotech. In the past 12 months his company has helped bring three new drugs to market, each treating a significant and previously-unmet medical need. When not making the drugs for the people, Jon recites poetry for his wife Emily and 2-year-old daughter Alexandra. Eric Parvis finished his residency in emergency medicine at Cooper Hospital UMDNJ in Camden, N.J. He is now working at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va. Eric hopes all is well with me. It is.

Tom Prevas and wife Emily remain in Charles Village with their daughter Lilly. Tom is working at DLA Piper. He played both soccer and baseball this past year and wonders whether his diminished skills are a product of his agedness or fatherhood. (I submit, lovingly, that Tom’s skills have NOT changed over time; that he plays now with the same diminished skills he limped along with back in the day.) In other news, Tom has introduced America to a strange and wonderful board game called Carcassonne. I once observed a match at his house, whence I concluded that Carcassonne is unfit for polite society. Lastly, I should mention that Tom’s most recent book, “The Panda that Spoke the French to the People in the Parlor,” will not be on the shelves of any bookstores in the near future. Justin Short, superb educator of the youth, remains at RPCS teaching the children to learn good. Students marvel at his pedagogy. Of his interpretive dance tracing the democratization of classical Athens, a young lady I just now made up remarked, “Luminous and breathtaking.” Outside the classroom, the past year has been an exciting one for Justin. Back in March he and a villager called Sinjock co-authored a collection of sonnets honoring Justin Bieber’s work with wounded animals. Justin lives in Medfield with his remarkable wife Annie and fluffy dog Jake. Will Spencer and his wife Katie have been married for more than three years and live in Westminster. He reports that there are no little Spencers yet, but there are four cats. The most recent was a stray that had been wandering around the ’hood since before Halloween. To help feed the cats, Will works at Seismic Surveys in Frederick, Md., as a geologist. He hangs out with classmates Sudhir Desai and Palden Hamilton a lot. Mark Stamidis lives in Parkville and is still working as a buyer at McCormick. He is considering a return to school for an M.B.A.

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Finally — and without question, most importantly — we come to me (Chad Prather). I am happy to share the news that Katie and I welcomed a wee Prather on January 13, 2011: Samuel James (a strong, importantsounding name, like a good bourbon). I very much like being a Daddy, and I am exceedingly glad that Sam is not an ugly baby. It’s not that we were expecting an ugly baby, but let’s just be honest: A lot of babies look like aliens until they hit six months or so. But not Sam. Sam is cute. And gifted. Just now his little bottom is conducting a glorious symphony for the peoples. He will conduct 10 –12 more throughout the day. That’s pretty much the extent of his activity. Sort of like an overactive reverse Pez dispenser. Eventually Sam will become like a real boy, and he will do funny things and make more noises, and I will embrace such lines as “I think it’s a great idea, but your Mommy says no.” We’re looking forward to all that, but we’re not rushing it. This experience is too awesome.

1999 Bill Miller bmilleriv@gmail.com Chris Anderson lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife Yayoi. He plans on finishing his J.D. at Georgetown this year. Craig Bennett lives with his girlfriend and dog Scout in Rodgers Forge. He teaches U.S. history at Calvert School and is the head coach of the football, boys’ basketball and boys’ lacrosse teams. Damien Davis graduated from Columbia with an M.B.A. and is working for Brown Capital Management in Baltimore. Jack Dietrich earned his law degree from the University of South Carolina and is polishing off his M.B.A. Justin Haas became engaged in April to his fiancée Mary and plans on getting hitched in July. Chris Hoffberger is the founder of AgencyDJs, a DJ booking agency working nationwide and based in Los Angeles. He also DJs and produces music, with a recent release out on Scion A/V. Tim Hurley has nothing new to report. He is still married and working for Miles & Stockbridge while living in Federal Hill. Willie Miton lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his girlfriend. He was a captain and instructor with US Airways Express (Colgan Air); now he’s a first officer with Southwest Airlines, where he’s been for a little over two years. He’s in touch with classmates Mark Bower, Jonas Mendoza and Kwaisi France. Brenden Mulligan had a big year, selling his Internet startup and moving to San Francisco, where he now advises other Internet startups. Shields Sullivan is an assistant project manager and superintendent for Brawner Builders Inc. He is engaged and locking it down in Charleston, S.C., this May.

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Last but certainly not least, Charles Wagandt became engaged to Lauren Taylor, a Notre Dame Prep and Cornell grad, who now works as a fixed income analyst at T. Rowe Price.

2006 Jude Chiy recently graduated from Dartmouth and started his first job as a management fellow at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, a private hospital specializing in integrative oncology care. “I’m working in the managerial side of the hospital,” he reports. Steve Thomas was awarded a fellowship from Princeton in Asia (PIA) to teach English in Phang Nga, a small village in southern Thailand. Here’s his bio from the PIA web site: “When Steve Thomas was asked what he was going to do with a bachelor’s degree in English, he only had one answer: teach in Phang Nga, Thailand. Some say it’s because he craves those gorgeous Thai beaches, but the truth is that Steve enjoys sweating profusely while sitting down, and that the Thai people are the only others left on this planet who share his enthusiasm for the exclamation mark! The true question is whether or not he will be able to survive an entire year without access to “Point Break.” But then again, perhaps in this land of Buddhism, he will finally meet the true Bodhisattva. . . .”

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Correction The Class of 2010 College Matriculation list published on page 62 of the Fall 2010 Bulletin contained an omission. The first name on the list should have been: Jason Matthew Adleberg Princeton University Our sincerest apologies for this error, and best of luck to Jason.

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