Alumni Association Awards
The Alumni Association is proud to sponsor two important awards that each recognize outstanding loyalty and service to Gilman School and the association.
May Holmes Service Award
Named in honor May Holmes, who in her long tenure at Gilman School served as secretary to Headmaster Henry Callard, kept the files that grew into the School archives, helped model the annual giving program, and nurtured the Gilman ideals, the May Holmes Service Award is presented to a member of the Gilman community who has served in the School in a distinguished and meritorious fashion.
Past recipients
1981–1982 May Holmes
1982–1983 Henry H. Callard
1983–1984 Charles R. Gamper
1984–1985 Ludlow H. Baldwin ’22
1985–1986 Dawson L. Farber ’35
1986–1987 Walter G. Lohr, Jr. ’62
1987–1988 J. Richard Thomas, Sr. ’43
1988–1989 No Recipient
1989–1990 Allison J. Downs
1990–1991 Ralph N. Willis ’49
1991–1992 Reginald S. Tickner
1992–1993 Redmond C.S. Finney ’47
1993–1994 Helen K. Stevens
1994–1995 Owen Daly II ’43
1995–1996 James C. Pine ’21
1996–1997 William McCarthy ’49
1997–1998 John R. Merrill
1998–1999 Nicholas M. Schloeder
1999–2000 Walter Lord ’35
2000–2001 Robert D. Bulkeley
2001–2002 William A. Greene, Jr.
2002–2003 W. M. Cary Woodward
2003–2004 JoAnn G. Davison
2004–2005 William S. Merrick, Jr. ’51
2005-2006 Elizabeth S. McDonald
2006-2007 Anton J. Vishio
2007-2008
K. Graeme Menzies ’47
Dawson Farber, Jr. Alumni Award
Dawson Farber, Jr. ’35 is one of the School’s most legendary alumni for his outstanding and generational commitment to Gilman’s quality of life and learning, and it is the hope of the Alumni Association and the School that the recipients of the new Dawson Farber, Jr. Alumni Award demonstrate the same characteristics of loyalty, devotion, selfless service, affection, enthusiasm, and spirit for Gilman School personified by Farber himself. The Dawson Farber, Jr. Alumni Award is presented to the Gilman alumnus who has enthusiastically demonstrated an abundance of service to Gilman sustained over an extended period of time through volunteer leadership, advocacy, and financial support.
Recent recipients
2004–2005 Charles C. Fenwick, Jr. ’66
2007-2008 Owen Daly II ’43
K. Graeme Menzies ’47
Owen Daly II ’43
