May Holmes
Alumni Awards
The Alumni Association is proud to sponsor two important awards that each recognize outstanding loyalty and service to Gilman School and the association.
The May Holmes Service Award
Named in honor of May Holmes, who in her long tenure at Gilman School served as secretary to Headmaster Henry Callard, kept the files that grew into the Gilman Archives, helped model the annual giving program, and nurtured the Gilman ideals.
Each year the May Holmes Service Award is presented to a member of the Gilman community who has served the School in a distinguished and meritorious fashion.
The 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 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 periodically to a 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.
Dawson Farber, Jr. '35
Award Recipient Gallery
Rob L. Heubeck
2024 May Holmes Service Award
Edie D. Meacham
2023 May Holmes Service Award
Marc J. Hoffman
2022 May Holmes Service Award
Tim Holley, Jr. '77
2019 May Holmes Service Award
Dan Christian
2018 May Holmes Service Award
Joe Duncan
2017 May Holmes Service Award
Ralph L. DeGroff, Jr. '54
2016 Dawson Farber, Jr. Alumni Award
Jerry Thornbery
2016 May Holmes Service Award
Stephen A. Siwinski
2015 May Holmes Service Award
Redmond C. S. Finney '47
2014 Dawson Farber, Jr. Alumni Award
Gordon L. Culbertson
2014 May Holmes Service Award
Johnnie L. Foreman
2013 May Holmes Service Award
Peggy Classen
2012 May Holmes Service Award
Ray Mills
2011 May Holmes Service Award
K. Shanthi Kumar
2010 May Holmes Service Award
Robert J. Demeule
2009 May Holmes Service Award
Owen Daly II '43
2008 Dawson Farber, Jr. Alumni Award
Pictured with his son Clinton Daly '74
K. Graeme Menzies '47
2008 May Holmes Service Award
Anton J. Vishio
2007 May Holmes Service Award
Elizabeth S. McDonald
2006 May Holmes Service Award