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Sandy Dugan and Betsy live in Wrenshall, Minnesota, not far from Duluth, on a 45-acre farm near their daughter and family.
- 1950s
Phil Briscoe continues living in Cockeysville with his wife, Liz, where he pursues various hobbies, plus cycling for exercise. He welcomed his fourth grandchild in January — “a handsome little guy.”
- 1950s
Ron Nelson and Cynthia continue to lead the good life in Fort Myers, Florida, near their son and his family. He welcomes any classmates visiting in the area to look him up
- 1950s
Cooper Graham and Pat are enjoying good health in Baltimore, and he says, “we are content in our little bubble here.”
- 1950s
Tom Carroll and Winnie are enjoying life in Havre de Grace where they sail their little cat boat, “Water Music,” whenever the weather permits. He underwent triple cardiac bypass surgery in October, but is feeling “wonderful” now. That’s good news
- 1950s
Mike Fisher and Sue had to adjust their typical travel schedule this year because of the virus, and spent much less time in their home in Rio Verde, Arizona, than usual, before returning to home in Black Butte Ranch, Oregon. And they welcomed a new great-granddaughter in July!
- 1950s
Sam Smith reports from Timonium that he and Judy now live in a mid-rise 80-unit condominium, and are enjoying good health. Walking a brisk mile every day certainly helps, he says. He continues his ongoing project of tracing and documenting graves of War of 1812 veterans
- 1950s
Guy Dove continues the good life dividing his time between winters in Vero Beach, Florida, and home in Middleburg, Virginia. His health is good, and he continues to be active in a syndicate with race horses in Baltimore.
- 1950s
Dave Eaton and Debby have returned to Baltimore after a hiatus in Singer Island, Florida, and Washington, D.C., and are happily settled back in their old territory. He, Dick Biggs, and yours truly keep in regular contact via Zoom.
- 1950s
My life this year has been unremarkable in most ways — and maybe that's a good thing. Sue and I are enjoying our two children and three grandchildren nearby, and everybody is healthy, I’m happy to say.
- 1950s
Howard Stick reports (via Christmas card) from home in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, that he and Alyce are doing well, yet hoping for a better year in 2021, like most of us.
- 1950s
Harry Lord and Sarah stay active and enjoy good health in Baltimore, as depicted in their well-illustrated Christmas card: cute children, affectionate dog, and bird-watching.
- 1950s
George Dowell writes from home in St. Louis, where he is still practicing psychiatry three days a week, usually remotely.
- 1950s
Ambler Moss retired in January 2021 from the University of Miami, where he taught since 1984, and is professor emeritus of international studies. He and Serena live in Coral Gables, Florida, and they have four children and three grandchildren.
- 1950s
Nick Penniman reports from Naples, Florida, that he and Linda are well-settled there, while keeping a townhouse north of Baltimore.
- 1950s
Leland James and Marion are well-entrenched on Carter’s Creek in Irvington, Virginia, where they have been for many years. He stays active in many community organizations in that area, and he and yours truly have become regular email correspondents on numerous topics.
- 1950s
Dave Sowell reports from Owings Mills that he and Judy are doing well in spite of the COVID-19 limitations. With his children scattered from New York City to Austin, Texas, to Los Angeles, FaceTime has become the base for their family communications.
- 1950s
Julian Jones and wife Pat completed a trip to the Galapagos Islands before the travel shutdown, and since then they have enjoyed staying closer to home in Baltimore with family visits to their daughter’s home to babysit their 3-year-old grandson.
- 1950s
Bill Zeeveld reports from Hendersonville, North Carolina, that he enjoys the independence of running his own engineering consulting business, which he has done for 20 years.
- 1950s
After 20 years in the environmental field, I switched careers to fulfill my childhood dream of becoming a professional pilot.
- 1990s
Retired life continues to work for both Beth and me. The past year was difficult for us as it was for most, but we got through it.
- 1970s
Fran and I live in Boca Raton, Florida. We have four amazing grown children, from here to Northern California.
- 1970s
I’ve been retired for five years now from my career of 10 years as a miner and mining engineer at Henderson Mine near Berthoud Pass, Colorado, and 28 years managing mining issues nationwide for the National Park Service as a mining engineer/geologist.
- 1970s
I’m about to finish my junior year at Georgetown University. No one could have predicted COVID’s impact on my junior and sophomore year, but I’ve done my best to make the most of it.
- 2010s
Moving to Black Rock Road in horse country north of Baltimore, still sailing, working up a vacation rental in Bermuda, helping my wife, Lauren, finish an MFA in sculpture at MICA, launching our children, and just whelped our first litter of puppies.
- 1970s
Despite COVID , this past year has not been THAT different from the pre-pandemic times. Last summer (2020) I lived at the beach in Ocean City, Maryland, with my fellow classmates Jeremy Cranston, Sam Cosimano, and Jon Hazlehurst, and I worked for Colton Edmunds’ dad at Will’s Beach Service. Living at the beach was fun, and miraculously, everybody stayed pretty healthy!
- 2010s
Emerson Coleman is continuing to develop and launch new media projects in his role as SVP for Hearst Television where he created the weekly national political show, “Matter of Fact with Soledad O’Brien”...
- 1970s
Bruce Brian and wife, Linda have sold their place in The Villages, Florida, and moved full time to Priest Lake, Idaho.
- 1950s
In February, our class lost our top athlete and friend, Frank Riggs. “Number 31”’s athletic prowess and accomplishments were legendary and speak for themselves.
- 1950s
Tommy Garrett escaped last fall’s fires in Santa Rosa. His son, Tom,Jr, who lives in the neighboring Napa Valley was not so fortunate.
- 1950s
Like most of us, the past 14-plus months have been a huge void. With virtually no travel and contact with other human beings, our lives have been relegated to social media and the safety and comforts of our own homes.
- 1950s
Dawson Farber, III poses with his six grandchildren, ages 5-18, two sons, and their spouses at their home in Cape Cod last August.
- 1960s
Mark Fetting reports being “so sorry to hear of the passing of Mr. Porter...he was the best as teacher, Circus Director, T-men founder, contractor (he helped build the Auditorium), snow plow man with his jeep. I even think he and Cary Woodward were “Big League” football coaches when Will Baker and I attempted to be quarterbacks. Truly, Mr William H Porter, among the very best of Gilman.”
- 1970s
Jack Orrick has moved to the law firm of Offit Kurman in Bethesda from his prior law firm of Linowes and Blocher where he worked for more than 25 years.
- 1970s
Ryan Isaac started an email newsletter, “Warning Track Power,” offering an insider’s take on a variety of stories and issues around baseball, some of which aren’t covered by traditional sports media. Check it out and subscribe at warningtrackpower.substack.com.
- 1990s
Prem Kumta recently co-hosted a virtual event to support Andrew Yang in his bid for mayor of New York.
- 1990s
I accepted a new director position with Chubb Limited managing outside counsel. It's where I've wanted to be, and doing what I've wanted to do my entire career.
- 1990s
On Monday, January 18, William Calvin Chesnut Barnes passed away at the age of 80 at a memory care facility in The Villages, Florida.
- 1950s
John Kim hosted me and Stewart Kesmodel (their sons actually attend the same school) in his member-guest tournament at Burning Tree CC in Greenwich on July 24.
- 1990s
David Heroy was in town last summer from Austin, Texas, where he is a science teacher at a private school. His wife, Erica, and his two daughters report that their dog has never been happier than during the current pandemic
- 1990s
Jason Jenkins is still in Baltimore and when not posting on Facebook about losing his phone, breaking his phone, or his phone being hacked, he is working in property management.
- 1990s
Our class Ph.D., Dr. Ed Trusty, has announced his return to Baltimore from Texas as he has been named the Interim Head of School at St Paul’s. We only ask that Ed not give the Crusaders any coaching advice when playing the Greyhounds.
- 1990s
Greg Levin wrote from Charlotte where he is a National Feed Producer for NBC News. I am sure that he is disappointed that he did not get to broadcast his fourth Olympic Games from Tokyo this year.
- 1990s
Dr. Arun Agrawal wrote to me from Southern California, where besides learning how to microbrew, he and our classmate Dr. Andrew Coyle are on the front lines in the hospitals and we are thankful to both of them.
- 1990s
Fred Lohr wrote to us from London where he is working for Legg Mason.
- 1990s
Charlie Neer was happy to report that while living in Philadelphia he has been organizing “Scotch-o-clock” with his neighbors.
- 1990s
Harris and his family live in Queens, N.Y., and wrote to remind us all to not touch our faces and make sure to wash our hands.
- 1990s
Luke Harlan wrote that he is enjoying his time with teen boys and feeling extremely fortunate and grateful to be inspiring and empowering others to become the best version of themselves as a transitional business, health and mindset coach.
- 1990s
My weekly re-acquaintance with Gilman over the last seven years has come to a close with the “graduation” of my younger son, Philip, with the class of 2020. My older son, Andrew, graduated in 2017.
- 1980s
- 2000s
- 2000s
Steve Howard is a partner in the venture along with other Gilman alumni.
- 1980s
Dave Rody and his wife, Anna MacCormack, moved to Baltimore from New York with their three children. Their son is in the Gilman Middle School, and their two daughters are in the lower school at Bryn Mawr.
- 1980s
Robert Landon’s first article for the New York Times, published in August 2019, was called “Significant Mother.” It tells the story of Robert’s complicated relationship with the woman who was briefly married to his father.
- 1980s
Jaan Naktin, an infectious disease specialist in Allentown, Pa., shared a video he took at the hospital where he works. Looking down from a second-floor window, the video shows firetrucks and ambulances slowly circling the hospital’s entrance, their lights flashing and sirens wailing.
- 1980s
In March, Jeff Grant and his fiancé, Jennifer, cancelled their plans for a lowkey wedding at a restaurant outside Atlanta and livestreamed the ceremony from home.
- 1980s
Mac Passano has been busy, as usual, with his family, reporting the summer of 2019 was normal with grandchildren (10) activities in Groton Long Point, Conn
- 1960s
We have a positive report from Duane Chase about his prostate surgery.
- 1970s
After so many of us contributed so richly to last year’s batch of these notes, class communications have improved further and continued pretty much unabated.
- 1970s
It is with great sadness that I report that Bobby Bone passed away at John Hopkins on May 26 after a multi-year battle with dementia.
- 1980s
Rick Uhlig suffered the loss of his wife, Susan, very recently after her long disability following a stroke two years ago. Rick has sold his houses in Florida and has moved back to Baltimore full time. The last two years have been a struggle but Rick maintains very fond memories of the long term.
- 1950s
The ebullient Andy Adelson and Didi spend most of their time in Miami and also have a summer home on the Massachusetts coast.
- 1950s
Don McPherson has also recently produced a book of an entirely different nature, on the life of his son, David, who died prematurely in the fall of 2016.
- 1950s
Larry Stifler has recently opened the Maine Mineral and Gem Museum in Bethel, Maine, starting right at the top as one of the finest in the world, with a large collection of extraterrestrial minerals and gems...
- 1950s
Don Hooker continues to keep a home here on Broadmoor Road and makes an occasional appearance here, but spends a great deal of time in Washington with his longtime companion, Mary. They particularly enjoy theater.
- 1950s
Herb Tinley and Betty continue to live in Cape Coral, Fla., but have moved to another home.
- 1950s
Debbie and Bob Wood are in their fifth year of permanent residence at Jackson Hole, where they can continue to see their spectacular view of the Grand Teton range and Woody can enjoy his favorite pastime — fishing — though that has been put off by the pandemic.
- 1950s
Clark MacKenzie and Andy are splitting their time between Baltimore, Delray Beach, Florida, and Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where they have had a home for some time. Clark notes his golf game has been seriously pinched by the virus limitations.
- 1950s
Bill Beatson kindly hosted a Gilman luncheon with Henry Smyth in Palm Beach in February
- 1950s
Lorraine and Frank Pine continue to split their time between Cross Keys and Long Lake, N.Y., in Adirondack Park, a lovely and popular summer tourist attraction not far from Lake Placid.
- 1950s
Jane and George Hardy celebrated their 50th anniversary recently.
- 1950s
John Edelen attended our class lunch last fall all the way from Earlysville, Va., near Charlottesville. It was nice to see him again, after he and Lockette attended our reunion last spring. John is an avid fisherman.
- 1950s
Eve and John Hilgenberg are enjoying their new home at Blakehurst with its quality of life and excellent activities. John has substantially recovered from a stroke he suffered months ago. He was able to attend the fall lunch. He is enjoying a 1952 MG.
- 1950s
Jennie Lee and Hobie Fowlkes, like many of us, are continuing enjoyment of their six grandchildren. Hobie has also particularlyenjoyed resuming flying his Bonanza airplane after a two-and-a-half-year fix-up job.
- 1950s
Marsha and John Ramsay are seasoned and frequent travelers and this past year was no different despite losing a planned trip to Italy this spring.
- 1950s
Bill Spencer-Strong was pleased to host the fourth annual class of ‘59 Florida golf outing in January in The Villages, where he lives...
- 1950s
Dick Emory has not slowed down in his senior years and particularly with his favorite subject: the environment.
- 1950s
Bonnie and I have helped manage this shut-in pandemic life in a number of ways, with family visits in backyards keeping a safe distance but still having grandkids playing around and being able to see each other and talk person to person; family Zoom calls, in my case, with 15 or more people nationwide; Zoom cocktails with friends; watching movies and special shows on TV; watching replays of hallmark sporting events; keeping active on email with friends, especially on the humor mill, and groups I work with; reading; some yard improvement; and cleaning up the house.
- 1950s
The biopsy of my bone marrow — taken 5/21, to measure the effectiveness of the stem cell transplant 2/11 — was very encouraging.
- 1970s
All is good here — staying safe at home with my wife in Santa Monica, Calif., but as a Skadden restructuring lawyer, I have been very busy. Family is good.
- 1980s
My wife, Leigh, and I have now been in Mountain Brook, a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., for ten years. I continue in my role as CMO of Thompson Tractor, the exclusive provider of Caterpillar equipment in Alabama and northwest Florida, and Hyundai Forklifts in Georgia.
- 1980s
All is well with my family despite the COVID-19 pandemic. My daughter (Emma) just completed her sophomore year at Penn/Wharton and my son (Ethan) completed his sophomore year at Gilman.
- 1980s
I moved to Palm Beach, Fla., a year ago after buying a company called Mrs. Peters that makes the absolute best smoked fish dips in the world. So, I am growing the brand and trying to take the products nationwide.
- 1980s
All is well in Chicago. I am into my 19th year with USAA Real Estate.
- 1980s
Joel Getz continues to work as senior associate dean at Yale School of Management. He also serves on a few public boards as well as the board of a new boarding school being developed/opened in Massachusetts.
- 1980s
Israel was pretty aggressive from the start on this COVID-19. Back in the middle of March, we went into pretty strict lockdown, with the accompanying economic fallout.
- 1980s
Taylor Classen, who continues in his role as a partner for Delbert Adams Construction Group, writes: My son, Taylor, graduates from Gilman in June 2020 via virtual graduation and will be headed to Elon in the fall.
- 1980s
I was in Bawlmer in 2019, actually — polar vortex hit on my last day, it was insanely cold and I was happy to put my tail between my legs and run for the warm weather. I hope all is well with you and the rest of the Gilman boys.
- 1980s
Tim Rumberger continues in his role as world languages department chair for Mashpee Public School in Mashpee, Mass.
- 1980s
We’re fine. We’ve been camped out in our weekend place in Skytop since March.
- 1980s
We are moving to West Palm Beach, Fla., from New York City. We are currently renting a house three blocks down from Geary Stonesifer and will buy later this year.
- 1980s
Terry Booker continues his work as vice president and head of business development for Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia.
- 1980s
Since 2005, Mike Berkowitz has been a history teacher at the Trinity School in New York, N.Y. He has now added Upper School class dean to his duties. Mike, do you leave “See me now” messages like Mr. Gamper?
- 1980s
Bobby Greenfeld is patent counsel at Steptoe & Johnson in New York.
- 1980s
Mike Liebson is now the vice president of product marketing and account-based marketing at TraceLink.
- 1980s
Gary Raab is now vice president of innovation and business development for Flavor Materials International.
- 1980s
Andy Owens and his son Justin dropped by Birmingham on their way to a college visit at the University of Alabama.
- 1980s
Leslie and I live in the same house in Chicago, Ill., I’m still an orthopedic surgeon. We are currently full nesters as all three of our daughters are living at home, including our oldest who works in New York City and our middle who attends Tulane.
- 1980s
After a short-lived retirement, Ross Taylor has taken on a new role as CFO of Codexis, a leading protein engineering company that applies technology to create high-performing enzymes for improving the cost and quality of pharmaceuticals and food ingredients, to enable sequencing of minute quantities of DNA for medical diagnostics, and to create novel biotherapeutics.
- 1980s
I am still in the Seattle area and really hate the Seahawks. We have been out here for 21 years now and I can’t imagine living anywhere else.
- 1980s
Hawaii’s virus numbers are currently low, but visitors are still required to quarantine for 14 days after arrival and cannot leave their hotel. Things will obviously change in the months ahead, but, of course, keep an eye out for any Hawaii travel restrictions if there is a second wave. I am well, and my best to all of our classmates.
- 1980s
Stephan Miller is now senior director of clinical development at SANIFIT, a biopharmaceutical company focused on treatments for calcification disorders.
- 1980s
I’m still living and practicing medicine in Berkeley, Calif. My three daughters are growing up.
- 1980s
Before the COVID-19 stay-in-place rules came in effect, Rick and his family gathered up their things and headed for his offseason home in rural Utah.
- 1980s
After having a heart attack followed by coronary stent and bypass surgery at Thanksgiving 2018, I tried working as a physician part time after but ended up retiring May 2019.
- 1980s
Alberto Zapata continues in his role as senior counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Chris, keep busy managing the social schedules of his girls, Emilia and Sophia.
- 1980s
Randy Wilgis is now an investor with Meliorem Advisory in Sumter, S.C., making capital investments during the early stages of company development in advance of Series A financing efforts.
- 1980s
Former classmate Bill Slaughter is working for Weatherby Healthcare of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as a consultant in pediatric subspecialties.
- 1980s
Joe Seivold sent in the following: “Glenn ‘Lenny Lache’ Lacher and his bride, Kelley, joined Joan and me at the wedding of our son Johnny in New Haven, Conn., on the weekend of 12/28-12/30 2019. Good times were had by all!”
- 1980s
Craig Rocklin continues in his role as a fundraising consultant for his own firm, Maybe it is Rocket Science!
- 1980s
Wendell Phillips is now interim vice chancellor and chief of staff at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, N.C.
- 1980s
Romeo McClarry continues in his role as principal consultant and owner of Swing Space, LLC, a technical security company providing services to the residential, business, and federal government communities. He has also added pastor and founder of Haven of Rest Ministries in LaPlata, Md.
- 1980s
After more than 10 years at the Richards Group in Dallas, Texas, Doug Eyring is now an independent creative director/art director/designer. You can check out Doug’s work at dougeyring.com.
- 1980s
My wife, Susan, and I retired two years ago to Oconee County, S.C., about two hours north of Atlanta. I golf poorly three to four days a week.
- 1980s
I can’t believe it’s been 38 years since we left Gilman. I’m thankful for the foundation that we all share from our time together.
- 1980s
Scott Bortz continues his career as a partner for Tribek Properties in Charlotte, N.C., which focuses on specialty retailers such as Walgreens, Family Dollar, Starbucks, Vitamin Shoppe, and Harris Teeter.
- 1980s
Rob Yarlott continues in his role as vice president of business development with Cryotrans. Rob, his wife, Linda, and sons Jay and Will reside in Ellicott City.
- 1980s
Tom Waxter sent in the following: “Last summer, a number of the members of the class of 1982 got together at the home of Kerri and Taylor Classen to meet (some of us for the first time) Stephany Erlbeck and her son Blake.
- 1980s
I spoke at length to Doug Riley. He informed me he had brain surgery in February to correct an arteriovenous malformation. He expects to make a full recovery.
- 1980s
As I write, I am in the car, going around the beltway, teaching my youngest how to drive. (Oops — forgot the football helmet!) Since last year, I married off another child. Three down, three to go.
- 1980s
Michael Sarbanes is now a science teacher at Green Street Academy, a charter school in Baltimore.
- 1980s
Dr. Mark Peeler continues as a vascular surgeon with Cardiology Associates in Annapolis, Md., and Chester, Md.
- 1980s
Dr. Leigh Panlilio continues in his role as a research fellow at the National Institute on Drug Abuse Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health with concentration in the neuropsychopharmacology of opioids, stimulants, cannabinoids, and nicotine.
- 1980s
It is kind of hard to report this news and then shift into my usual jabs, fake news, and fabrications about Gilman classmates.
- 1980s
Nick Kouwenhoven is now the executive director for the Academy of Lifelong Learning at University of Maryland Baltimore.
- 1980s
Will Howard has returned to Baltimore and is a freelance editor working for clients such as Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Sheridan Journal Services.
- 1980s
My sons, Jack and Jamey, are now 13 and 12 years old, respectively. My daughter, Lucy, will be 28 in October 2020, and — fingers crossed with pandemic restrictions — will also be getting married that month!
- 1980s
I’m doing fine here in Baltimore. During the COVID-19 lockdown, I have been playing online spades with Bruce Zukerberg.
- 1980s
John Danko continues with the family business as president and CEO of Danko Arlington, which specializes in military and commercial aluminum and bronze sand castings, 3-D sand, and 3-D plastic printing of rapid prototypes and production parts.
- 1980s
I’ve been back in Baltimore for eight years (after a number of years in Cleveland, Ohio, and New Haven, Conn., and for most of that time, I’ve been a bookseller at a rad left worker collective called Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse.
- 1980s
Nick Brader has started his own civil engineering consulting firm, NJB Engineering. According to his website, Nick’s company is located in Baltimore with current projects in Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Howard County, and Harford County.
- 1980s
Frank Bonsal is now Managing Partner at Bonsal Capital.
- 1980s
Dirck Bartlett has ended his 12 years of service on the Talbot County Council. He continues in his role as Director of Business Development for ILEX Construction.
- 1980s
My daughter just finished her sophomore year there in Tuscaloosa and is loving it. What’s not to love! My oldest has made me a grandfather.
- 1980s
Last year, I stepped down as head lacrosse coach. I spent 2019-2020 focusing on my classes, assisting Greyhound TV, and supporting my daughter during her senior year in high school. Julie and I are so proud of her as she moves on to the University of Delaware where she hopes to study exercise science and nutrition.
- 1980s
As many of you know, Chuck Wilder passed away in April 2019.
- 1980s
Loving living here in Perth, Western Australia, with Leanne and our family.
- 1980s
I am in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak in Boston. For some reason, Boston has been hit as hard as almost any U.S. city other than NYC. It is a strange time to work in an emergency department.
- 1980s
If you don’t live in Baltimore, one way to survive quarantine is to order steamed crabs from Crisfield, Md., and that’s what Tommy Horst did back in April.
- 1980s
Safe to say the last 10 years are not what any of us would have wished for as we prep for well-earned, feet-up and kicking-back glide into our golden years.
- 1970s
Retirement? What retirement? Judy and I are as busy as ever in our idyllic setting in the shadow of the San Diego mountains.
- 1960s
Bonnie and I continue to enjoy our relocation east (2016, Wisconsin to New Hampshire) and the increased opportunities for family visits which it has afforded.
- 1960s
I think this is my first update. My wife of 46 years, Kay, and I live in the Las Vegas suburbs and are diehard Vegas Golden Knights fans.
- 1960s
Linda and I are still residents of Roswell, Ga., and enjoying living in the Atlanta suburbs.
- 1960s
Your news compiler, is still working “part time” (which is sometimes more than full time) as a consultant for the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, with my last three trips being to Myanmar via Bangkok, Manila (for a week each), and Brazil (for a month — 10 days of work and the rest visiting L.cia’s family and “chilling”).
- 1960s
Pascale and I are still in East Hampton and still have the travel bug.
- 1960s
As I sit here looking at the Tetons from Jackson, Wyo., with the snow starting to melt, it’s hard to have sympathy for you
- 1960s
My situation at present is not so different from other classmates. My son, Jeff ’95, who is finishing his Ph.D. at EUI (European University Institute) — remote defense on May 21 — was on vacation in Florence when the pandemic began to raise its ugly head there.
- 1960s
I am still in HK, still carrying on despite the vicissitudes of the COVID-19 (coronavirus), and the recent civil unrest (I walked in two of the non-violent protests in July 2019.)
- 1960s
All is well here. Grandkids, 17, 17, 14, and 13 are doing fine. Each one is very different.
- 1960s
Still building stream restoration projects and suing the polluters on the Severn River, while playing in Savannah with grandchildren in the winter and sailing in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in the summer.
- 1960s
My family is doing well as we all practice social distancing and either working or studying remotely.
- 1970s
Sean Darby is running a successful elevator inspection company that is expanding throughout the United States.
- 1970s
I am still practicing antitrust and public utility law full time at Steptoe & Johnson in D.C., still trying cases, but have not yet taken up my colleagues’ suggestion to have 15 USC 2 inscribed on my license plates.
- 1960s
Joe Carroll reports that he is safe and healthy living in Greensboro, N.C.
- 1970s
It’s been a quiet year so far. Barb and I spent a week in Normandy cycling through the countryside. The ski season started off with great conditions, but February was disappointing. We will hopefully have some great cycling in Croatia this summer if the coronavirus doesn’t interfere.
- 1960s
Chris Patterson is very active on social media living in Australia.
- 1970s
I, too, am hunkered down at home and healthy. I am in Potomac, Md., just outside of D.C. There are a few classmates in the D.C. area. Wife Karen is taking her corona vacation at our beach house in Bethany Beach, Del.
- 1960s
Lisa and John O’Donovan have been sheltering in place in Lutherville with their two sons, Henry and Jenks.
- 1970s
Tom Booker is living in Columbia when he is not traveling the country watching his son, Thomas, play football for Stanford, where he is excelling on the field and in the classroom.
- 1970s
Kathleen and David Willis are now empty nesters. Their youngest son, Mike, is playing baseball at Georgetown.
- 1970s
Bill Senft and Louise’s oldest daughter, Paula, was married last fall.
- 1970s
Other than old man aches and pains, my health is real good, wife and kids and grandkids are all fine. Just bought a new car — Ford Escape — and I’m trying to figure out how things work.
- 1960s
I have been told that our classmate George Kelly and Marietta have been locked down in their Maryland home by themselves while all their children are in Denver taking care of each other.
- 1970s
Biff Poggi reported that his middle son, Sam, had COVID-19 while touring with a rock band in Europe.
- 1970s
Rick Watts and Roberta hope to crisscross the USA in their RV this fall, assuming they get freed from home detention, and National Parks are open.
- 1970s
As for the Moores (not of the Robby or Chris variety), we are all doing just fine.
- 1980s
Robin and I have been social distancing in Bethany Beach, where we are usually found these days anyway.
- 1980s
Deb and I continue to enjoy our life in Portland, Maine, where I am now a full professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of New England.
- 1980s
So my wife, Sheryl, and I are recently back from India where my son Alec was married. Visited the Taj Mahal and got out right before the coronavirus shut everything down.
- 1980s
I continue on multiple daily meds...an antibiotic, an antiviral, a bone strengthener, baby aspirin, as well as two major cancer meds, one orally for two weeks per month and another by monthly infusion (4+ hours in the cancer center).
- 1970s
Crazy times we are living through. Paula and I drove to Baltimore on March 20 and will be staying here for the duration of the state of emergency.
- 1980s
Sally and I have moved to Maine full time, a longtime dream of ours. I will be working from home and be in St. Louis once or twice a month when the world comes back to normal. Our daughters are also sheltering in place in Chicago and Denver.
- 1980s
Dr. Jay Goldstein continues in his role as an Instructor in Kinesiology at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Health. Jay also runs his own consulting practice in youth sports initiatives.
- 1980s
Les Goldsborough is now the Director of Philanthropic Planning at Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
- 1980s
John Zentz’s daughter, Allison, graduated from TCU this spring.
- 1980s
Steve Snyder’s daughter graduated from James Madison this spring. The proud father posted some pictures on Facebook.
- 1980s
I was in Singapore for SARS, so I had a dry run of sorts. Not something I would have ever recommended, but it has come in handy.
- 1980s
As I sit in my office at home and try to make sense of all the world’s madness, I find myself continuing to refocus on the things that have mattered most to me.
- 1980s
I have been practicing to be a hermit for decades, so being forced to be a hermit has been a great big ‘who cares?’ for me. So far, so good.
- 1980s
In July of 2018 Mac Ford was named All-Metro Girls Lacrosse Coach of the Year, and one of Mac’s players, Hannah Mardiney, niece of Michael Mardiney, was named All-Metro Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year!
- 1980s
First, and most important, was the tragic loss of our class act brother, Henry Galleher, in July of 2019.
- 1980s
We went into the fifth grade game overconfident and thought we were going to run over the smaller Calvert players. Only trouble was those smaller guys were really fast and they ran by us all day long in a thrashing.
- 1970s
It’s been a busy year for the Cha family. Zan and I are extremely blessed and proud to see our kids grow up and move on to their next stages of life.
- 1990s
Sadly, one response was the news that Jock McNair died in June 2018. Those of us who attended Calvert School were his classmates for 12 years.
- 1950s
Not that any year is good to have a pandemic but for it to happen the year of our 45th reunion made it that much worse.
- 1970s
Your secretary, Guy Hollyday, now a great-grandfather, writes a daily poem for his local community and plants a tree or two in nearby Wyman Park
- 1940s
Tom Fenton and Simone are living in New York City, where they have both had ER visits and hospitalizations and are now quarantined in their apartment trying to recover from the coronavirus. Tom deeply regrets the recent death of his older brother, Matt.
- 1940s
George Thomsen and his wife, Mary Ellen, are looking forward to a family vacation this summer in Cambridge, Md. Included in the fifteen people on the trip will be Philip Thomsen ‘15, son of Roszel ‘76, who graduates from Harvard this year, and Abigail Thomsen, daughter of Laurence (Lee) ‘85, who is graduating from Macalester College.
- 1940s
Bob Rich and his wife, Joan, are involved and Zooming with their families, including eight grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren, with another on the way.
- 1940s
Holland Wilmer continues his law practice although his work time has eased back to four days a week.
- 1940s
Mark is still managing money down in Bethesda and doing very well.
- 1980s
As some of you may know, we lost Chris Murray last year to ALS. He handled his illness with incredible courage and grace. He was a great friend and classmate.
- 1970s
Gough Thompson and Irene continue to enjoy their Rancho Santa Fe home, its natural setting, and bird life.
- 1940s
John Strickland is not enjoying stay-at-home, but is happy to be well and living in Florida. He gave up flying last year, but is still living at the airpark and has his old plane still in his hangar, even though it has been sold.
- 1940s
I’m still teaching at Butler as a professor in dance (since 2004).
- 1980s
Jennifer and I along with our two 9-year-old kids are making the best of the situation. Life is simple.
- 1980s
Year two of career ‘shift’ is going well. Higher Ed/Trinity College is definitely different from financial services, but at the end of the day, I’m using my core IT skill set and get to witness the fruits of our labor walking on campus.
- 1980s
Life is better once you get two monitors.
- 1980s
Rob DeMuth works at Merrill Lynch and walks a lot.
- 1980s
Dan Long is itching to get back to his bees. He lives in Athens, Ga., has undertaken the task of building a house, is becoming a certified Master Beekeeper, and is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his Brushwood Nursery.
- 1980s
James Smoot is an avid tennis player, but he tore his Achilles last year. He’s almost 100 percent and is back on the courts.
- 1980s
We moved back to Denver in 2017 and I’ve been commuting to NYC.
- 1980s
I’m living in New Canaan, Conn., and having a lot of family dinners these days with my wife, Susan, and our kids, Eleanor (10) and Steele (8).
- 1980s
John and I are healthy and happy eating various vertebrates.
- 1980s
My report is same old but all just getting older. Ratcliffe Architects — 12-person firm — office and home near each other in Greenspring Valley area.
- 1980s
...still in Baltimore, and now is raising two daughters with his wife, Catherine Pierre.
- 1980s
...has never been busier running his global CEO advisory firm Laurel Strategies, especially during the pandemic where he seems to be on Zoom calls from dawn to dusk...
- 1980s
Still living in south Florida just below West Palm Beach.
- 1980s
Both daughters are home with Jennifer and me during the COVID-19 crisis. Our daughter Maeve finished her junior year as a fine arts major at George Washington University..
- 1980s
Dr. Gino Freeman is living in Baltimore and is active in his Jonestown homeowner’s association.
- 1980s
Dr. Chris Wilson, who lives in Silver Spring, has been married to Tiffany since 2015, and works as a physician with a specialty of physical medicine and rehabilitation in a multidisciplinary group.
- 1980s
Speaking of touching classmates, I made the big move to Dr. Willie DeVeas. I remember those big claws from the gridiron, but I must say he’s quite agile for a big guy. He’s a fabulous dentist.
- 1980s
Mark Kaufman, a former Maryland Banking Commissioner and a former U.S. Department of Treasury official in the Obama Administration with experience in community development banking, was named president and CEO.
- 1980s
This strange time has offered unique opportunities for my firm. I was hired under an emergency contract by the state of Maryland as a medical planner to work with the Department of Health and medical facilities throughout the state to prepare for bed surge needs in response to COVID-19.
- 1980s
The Carroll family is thankfully non-remarkable while navigating the new reality.
- 1980s
Fortunately I wrapped up an exciting year of exhibiting with art fairs back in November, great shows in D.C., Miami art week, Los Angeles, and NYC Soho, as well as delivering and installing several corporate collections and commissions...
- 1980s
Hey all! I’ve actually been in Baltimore since March 12. Sadly my mother passed away and I travelled back home to handle her funeral arrangements right before the whole pandemic thing hit.
- 1980s
John-William DeClaris lost his father in March. Despite that, he said he “continues to work at the Food and Drug Administration, which, by the way, is a great organization and always looks for good people..."
- 1980s
I’m happy to report that I got married last September. My wife, Marisa Kurtzman, is an architect with a firm in Los Angeles. We got married up in Northern California, and we’re weathering the shutdown at our home in Santa Monica. Hope to get back to Baltimore once things open up.
- 1980s
Michelle and I are having a great time with Lily, who is now 18 months old and so much fun! Caroline will be a senior at Episcopal High School in Alexandria next year. Georgia will be a ninth grader at McDonogh, and I’m struggling a bit with that. Henry lives in Federal Hill and works for PWC, and I’m still at Legg Mason.
- 1980s
Wayne Farley told me, for a change, he has “a little time on my hands to write an update, go figure. Seven weeks into this crisis I have all my children home..."
- 1980s
Tom Parkinson witnessed the marriage of his oldest son, Carter, to Whitney Duc at a beautiful ceremony in Charleston, S.C., in February 2019.
- 1960s
Roger Novak closed the door of his highly regarded venture capital firm, Novak Biddle, at the end of 2019.
- 1960s
Gill Deford and wife Laura continue to reside in Cambridge, Mass., close to Harvard, where they met as students.
- 1960s
Betty and I are sequestered in our homes like many others. Both of us are fortunate to be able to work from home.
- 1970s
Michael Stanton continues guiding his successful San Francisco architecture firm, with no plans for retiring anytime soon.
- 1960s
At the close of 2019, Dave Irwin took down the shingle of his longtime law firm, Irwin, Green & Dexter, closing that chapter of his career as a criminal defense attorney of some considerable good reputation and renown.
- 1960s
Rick Green is retired and has enjoyed being back in more regular contact with friends from childhood days at Calvert School and Gilman.
- 1960s
I am still living in Connecticut and working at Vineyard Vines dressing the world in prep.
- 1990s
Chuck Baker quit his job and is now a dedicated online poker player and blackjack enthusiast; he has to play online because casinos have banned him due to card counting and stealing robes.
- 1990s
Will Stewart is excited to announce he is engaged to Jessie Montgomery of Harrisonburg, Va.! She is a graduate of UVA and Fuqua, currently working as a VP of external affairs for a nonprofit.
- 1990s
Ben Lucas is still living the Cali life…typical day includes chai latte, surf, burrito for lunch, surf, yoga class with wife, surf, hang with the family, decide board shorts/tee combo for next day, sleep and repeat!
- 1990s
Alec Riepe’s wife, Kelly, owns Uber Bagels & Deli. Alec can be seen from time to time making the dough in the kitchen and trying to remember what shape the bagels are supposed to be formed into.
- 1990s
Major Noah Bengur is flying for Delta Airlines and still in the Marine Corps Reserves. He lives a pretty normal life when not “flying the friendly skies” or “catching the spirit.”
- 1990s
Brian Margarine and his wife, Brooke, with their children, Victoria (11), Parker (10), and Scarlett (7) got a puppy named Jax.
- 1990s
Clayton Apgar and Kate are in Los Angeles trying to keep up with their son, Cal, who arrived August 20, 2019.
- 1990s
Keith Baker, when not sunbathing in the lower lots at Gilman or working the umbrella rentals in Dewey, can be found wearing a hard hat and a lax penny at his day job.
- 1990s
Andrew Wooten’s life in the ‘Big Easy’ has changed and Mardis Gras will always be different post-COVID.
- 1990s
Matt Garrity has mastered the art of installing car seats in rental cars to enjoy hiking or ski days outside Manhattan.
- 1990s
Billy Buppert loved homeschooling his kids so much in 2020 he decided to pull them out of Calvert to permanently continue their educations at home.
- 1990s
Danny Mooney has made official news and moved to Charlottesville during COVID summer.
- 1990s
Brendan Callahan’s life in 2019/2020 has been spent chasing around their three kiddos (8, 5, and 2), which was his same response as last year and will be the same next year, but the math on their ages will be different thanks to Mr. Matthew’s skilled teachings!
- 1990s
Morgan Salmon is living in north Philadelphia (but not born and raised), he works at Amazon going on year two where he spends most of his days, he enjoys chillin’ out, maxin’ relaxin all cool on the beaches of Jamaica when the three young kids (10, 5, 3) aren’t in school.
- 1990s
David Chalmers’ mother (and our class mom) Linda Trapp celebrated her final year at Gilman teaching language and coaching cross country; let’s be honest, she was the only good runner in the family.
- 1990s
Ken McNish is finishing his 12th and final year at Charlotte Country Day School. This coming year he will be the Upper School athletic director at St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minn.
- 1990s
Mark Scott continues to enjoy life in Winchester, Mass., with his wife and two children.
- 1990s
Big news is that, after 25 years, I retired on January 1 from the faculty of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
- 1960s
Trent Stone is working on multiple DIY projects around the house over the last year. He has an almost completely potty-trained and totally rambunctious 2-and-a-half-year-old boy. In June, he will have a little girl to add to the family.
- 1990s
Gene de Juan has been dealing with chronic pelvic pain for eight months and had to take a break from medical school.
- 1990s
Jordan Angell spends his time in the operating room at Chesapeake Urology, on the golf course working on his putts, or challenging his friends for money on his Peloton bike.
- 1990s
Brooks Marshall has been working on staying jolly and keeping others focused in the COVID era!
- 1990s
Brian Nottingham is still in sales and playing lacrosse, bruh. He enjoys being a husband and father to three kids in Parkton, Md. Brian loves coaching his kids and teaching them his quick reflex secrets.
- 1990s
Ben Stevens lives in the Baltimore metro area with his wife, Megan, and three wonderful kids, Greyson (8), Olivia (5), and Tucker (3), and their 100-pound Bernese Mountain dog, Putter.
- 1990s
David Sandler and his wife had a baby in September (their first).
- 1990s
Alan Woods’ wife, Staci, who is exceptionally gifted, is slowly adding to her business, attempting to conquer the criminal justice system in Maryland.
- 1990s
Erik Atas got engaged and planned to get married sometime in June 2020! Erik is still dominating the legal system in Baltimore.
- 1990s
John Schmick reports that he continues to enjoy teaching at Gilman. His younger son, Bo, will join older brother Johnny in the Lower School next year.
- 1990s
Geoff Greenblatt continues to work in the gaming and e-sports world as a brand strategist (ownership of Blockbuster Video never came to be for better or worse).
- 1990s
Still at The Tech and finishing my 32nd year on the faculty. My wife, Stephanie, and I have been living in Perry Hall since 1998.
- 1970s
My son, William V aka “Five,” will start in Gilman’s pre-K next year, and my daughter, Natalie, is wrapping up kindergarten at Bryn Mawr. Becky’s business Tinyhood is growing quickly too.
- 1990s
Beau Smith’s son, Reid, is wrapping up his first year at Gilman’s pre-K.
- 1990s
Will Miton, wife Raffaella, and son Oliver (now 3 and a half years old) live in northwest Philly, right across from a nice park and near some amazing mountain biking trails.
- 1990s
Lauren and Charles Wagandt’s kids keep getting bigger. Everyone is still alive and employed, which Charles points out is a genuine achievement these days.
- 1990s
Dr. Karan Kamboh is just as sexy as ever, and he recently starred in a YouTube music video called “Brusher Now,” which is worth two minutes and forty-six seconds of your time.
- 1990s
Shaun Woodland is racking up awards for his work on the big screen. He starred in the film “Unarmed Man,” available on Amazon Prime, which won the HBO “Best Feature” competition at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival in 2019.
- 1990s
Craig Bennett is expecting his second baby in September. He is the dean of the middle school at Calvert and lives in Rodgers Forge, where he is neighbors with Andrew Faraone.
- 1990s
Henry Russell’s second baby is due any day now (the middle of May 2020.) He coaches the football team at St. Frances, which finished with the #1 ranking in Maryland for the third straight year, and #3 in the country, their highest final ranking.
- 1990s
Tim Hurley may have been in the hospital at the same time as Justin Haas, as his third child, Willa, entered the world on April 6.
- 1990s
Justin Haas was a couple weeks ahead of Kittu with his second son, Wesley (older brother Nathan is 5). Justin lives in Silver Spring and works for the Navy, representing sailors and Marines before the Physical Evaluation Board on issues relating to discharge from service due to medical issues.
- 1990s
Kittu Rao’s wife had an emergency C-section in Miami, as baby girl Anisha Rao arrived on 4/15/20. Anisha remained in the NICU for 12 days and is now doing well.
- 1990s
Apaar Singh’s mom, Mala, passed on May 5 from complications tied to COVID-19. Touching tributes to her appeared in The Washington Post and elsewhere.
- 1990s
My best regards to everyone. I’ve been locked down with my wonderful wife, Sandy, (and a giant orange tabby cat) in Federal Hill during the recent viral crisis.
- 1970s
All good from here in Reisterstown, Md., with the Rienhoffs — lots of projects, open space, and critters out here. Married to Pat for just about 33 years (don’t ask me how she could put up with it).
- 1970s
All is well in Richmond, Va., three adult kids, two who happen to be sheltering with us at this moment. The third lives a mile away. I
- 1970s
I’m trying to meet a ‘Cooper Deadline’ which (after 12 years at The Tech with Hap) I know is an oxymoron. Betsy and I are celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary. Since we’re not going anywhere, I may have to surprise her with something beyond the meal kits in 15 minutes that represent my culinary skills.
- 1970s
Gentlemen, I guess I started my retirement three months early due to the pandemic. If I survive online teaching I will be retiring from The Tech after 38 years, with wrestling (28 years) and baseball coaching (9 years), I can honestly say that I enjoyed every aspect of my 38!
- 1970s
I’m living and working in the northwest corner of Connecticut, not far from David O. My wife, Hope, and I bought property in Sharon, Conn., and are building a high performance factory-built home up at the top of the property on a rocky ledge.
- 1970s
Hello everyone — It’s really amazing what my classmates have done! At the moment I am enduring the COVID pandemic just like everyone else.
- 1970s
Everyone here is healthy and working under COVID-safe rules. Katie goes to the office but she is the only one there. Carter (25) and his roommates work from their apartment in Fed Hill.
- 1970s
Hello from the War Zone in the New York Metro Area. Does anyone else live in the area? We live in Manhattan , but escaped with the full family at the end of March to Salisbury, Conn., in the Berkshires, two hours north of NYC.
- 1970s
As many of you know, Mary Anne and I still live in Grosse Pointe Park, a couple of blocks from Detroit. We’re going on 21 years here. We have three children, who make me a blessed and proud old man.
- 1970s
I guess it has been a few years since I’ve been in contact. It’s great to see everyone here doing well. I hope we all survive this current crisis.
- 1970s
Howdy, folks, and greetings from Wisconsin! Sue and I are now in our 26th year in Milwaukee where we have become Packers, Bucks, Brewers, Marquette, and U Wisconsin Badger fans, there IS a lot of cheese and beer, and we did have some snow flurries on Mother’s Day.
- 1970s
From Baltimore, I can report that I have rejoined the Gilman Board of Trustees after a two-year absence, and if my math is correct, by serving for another eighteen years I will have tied our classmate Michael Weinfeld’s tenure on the board.
- 1990s
Greetings from Chapel Hill. Sue and I are still in the same house where we raised our daughters. It’s tucked into a forest above a marsh — getaway spaces that have been a boon in the time of COVID.
- 1970s
Debbie and I returned from a ski trip to Whistler, BC on Friday the 13th, just in time to shelter in place.
- 1970s
Great to hear from everyone; the Jerveys are well,shivering in fear in the basement of our house in Bethesda
- 1970s
We too are “hunkering in the bunker” in Richmond, but do escape to the lower Chesapeake as much as we can. Both kids are in Colorado living the dream as fly fishing and mountain biking are accepted forms of social distancing.
- 1970s
Life is still wonderful here on the Chesapeake, although these incessant Zoom calls impinge on my ability to go outside and enjoy the beauty of living on the Bay.
- 1970s
It’s good to hear that so many of us are safe during these uncertain times. I’m happy to report that all is well with the Wyche family.
- 1970s
I am happy to report the family is safe. I work at a software company in Virginia while living in Randallstown, not far from McDonogh (pass it all the time). I have been telecommuting for years so the stay-at-home order has little to no effect on me.
- 1970s
I moved back from California in November to Baltimore to work for a firm that is now moving its headquarters to Phoenix in only six months...another corporation leaves...so sad.
- 1970s
I’m pleased to report the Johns family is healthy. Susan and I had the fine planning skills to buy a larger house in the same community we have been living in Bonita Springs, Fla. just before COVID hit.
- 1970s
I recently ended a 16-plus-year career at M&T Bank/Wilmington Trust. Not ready to hang it up; so, looking for the next chapter opportunity.
- 1970s
Life continues to be good in Burlington, Vermont. Nest is empty. Kids all healthy though entirely hobbled by COVID — their many fire-irons cooled way off.
- 1970s
I’m still teaching physics at Eastern Michigan University, so of course that means I was scrambling a couple of months ago to convert all five of my courses to entirely online experiences.
- 1970s
After nearly three decades of expansion, Jennifer and I decided to downsize. So last summer we moved onto the campus of McDonogh School — which is surreal.
- 1970s
Another journey comes to an end as I completed my MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
- 1990s
Ross Pearce has had a challenging spring as senior steward of the Maryland Racing Commission and co-chairman of the Manor Steeplechase Race.
- 1970s
Dave Emala relates how so much of life has been affected by COVID-19 precautions, including two rescheduled weddings and new business and civic efforts related to supplying personal protection equipment.
- 1970s
Jim Lynn proudly announced the birth of his first grandchild, Declan James Feeney, born last November.
- 1970s
Henry Blue writes he and wife, Liz, remain in Butler, with Liz active in volunteer work and riding horses, both of his sons now married (one in NYC and one in Chattanooga), and his daughter living in Maryland coaching varsity lacrosse at Garrison F
- 1970s
Mac Finney continues his essential work keeping us in Baltimore informed, as he files news stories and broadcasts remotely out of his car.
- 1970s
A.C. George writes about enjoying the great Holiday Luncheon hosted by Clinton at the Maryland Historical Society.
- 1970s
Marc Zarbin reports that his wife, Susan, Nicolas (16), Francesca (14), Isabel (14), and he are well in New Jersey.
- 1970s
Brad Mudge writes that he is finishing up a yearlong sabbatical from his teaching duties at the University of Colorado, but that progress on his research has stalled a bit around the recent coronavirus shutdown of the university.
- 1970s
Clinton Daly has been spending the stay-at-home time painting, polishing, planting, and having lots of board-related Zoom calls strategizing for the post-COVID recovery.
- 1970s
If any of us ever do get back into an airplane post-pandemic, we no longer have the opportunity to be flown by a classmate, as Captain Kimball Byron retired from American Airlines in February.
- 1970s
David Seiler continues as senior consultant for a specialty manufacturing company, and as an essential critical infrastructure business in the medical supply chain, the facility remains open and fully staffed.
- 1970s
My family is staying safe during quarantine. I have two frontline workers. My wife, Emma, works in the pediatric emergency room while my oldest, Lexi, works in the emergency room. They are my heroes.
- 1980s
Greetings from eight weeks in quarantine. This has been a rather fascinating year in every respect.
- 1970s
Pierre Bouscaren, remains similarly “retired” here in Gainesville, Va. Sarah has me digging, seeding, hauling, lawn-mowing and otherwise helping maintain her truly glorious garden.
- 1950s
Rick Betts and Laura tell me they are dutifully keeping proper distances in sunny Oakland, Calif.
- 1950s
Ben Stallman, still happily living in York, Pa., among family and longtime friends, informs us that his life is full and sweet.
- 1950s
Warren Buckler and Pat have happily surfaced once again in Valparaiso, Ind.
- 1950s
Ben Bird wrote in from his Seabrook Island, S.C., paradise that he is short on news, long on health and living the good life with Marsha just waiting for the next Spoleto Festival in Charleston.
- 1950s
Bert Muecke wrote in raving about the recent trip he and Tania took to Oregon.
- 1950s
Doug Godine and Ellen are reported to be doing quite nicely out there in Ruxton.
- 1950s
Cristobal Bonifaz has assured us that this is the year that his (I think somewhat autobiographical) novel, "The Curse of Eleuterio Rodriguez," will be published.
- 1950s
Kent Flannery and wife Joyce Marcus don’t let a mere virus cramp their style.
- 1950s
Speaking of walking the neighborhood, Tony Carey and Ellie are still ensconced at home in their stylish townhouse near the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
- 1950s
Bill Eaton, still living in D.C., has “taken the plunge” and moved to a retirement community, Ingleside at Rock Creek, in Northwest.
- 1950s
Ben Proctor and Sue, avid travelers, have been really slammed by COVID-19. They cancelled an RV excursion to New England and then a cruise to the Greek Isles.
- 1950s
From Silver Spring, Md., George Urban writes that he and Alicia are coping with the virus as well as a spate of difficult family illnesses and losses by reading real books and planning for better things ahead.
- 1950s
John Seiler filed a report from Louisville that the Derby Day that wasn’t forced what is usually a raucous weekend into deadsville.
- 1950s
Cary Woodward, our contribution to the Gilman faculty where he distinguished himself for several years, regrets having to forego his customary vacation to Maine with Peggy.
- 1950s
Harry Thomas reported from Tarrytown, N.Y., that he and Karen unsheltered for a while on Mother’s Day and hiked (yikes!) along the Pocantico River with their daughter and granddaughter.
- 1950s
Bill Trimble responded from his home of 58 continuous years on the hill in Owings Mills, Md.
- 1950s
Andy Gantt weighed in early from Wingina, Va., the telephone pole capital of the state, where he and wife Digna own a huge timber operation.
- 1950s
My personal big news is that I retired for a second time; this time it will stick. I live in Charlotte, and our three children are currently sheltering in place with us.
- 1970s
On the religious front, I’ve been particularly engaged these past two decades with The Institute for Islamic, Christian & Jewish Studies (ICJS.org), an organization with quite a few Gilman connections having been founded by Gilman buddies Charlie Obrecht and George Hess, along with others they attracted, with former Gilman pastor Chris Leighton as its first executive director.
- 1970s
I’m still living outside D.C. in Northern Virginia and working at a commercial finance company called Midcap Financial. I’ve been staying home since mid-March where my wife, kids, and I are all trying to keep up with work/school remotely.
- 1980s
Presiding from home, Baltimore City Circuit Judge Sylvester Cox wrote, “COVID 19 has severely hindered the administration of justice, yet we do what we can to preserve the judiciary.”
- 1970s
Dudley Parr wrote that, a dozen years ago, “at the end of the school year, I left Shady Side Academy where I taught science and was a dorm parent, to go to Trinity School for Ministry outside of Pittsburgh."
- 1970s
Arthur “Tiger” Cromwell wrote that his athletic activities at Gilman focused on running, “on dirt, gravel, sidewalks — it didn’t matter — just keep going as long as you could, as fast as you could,” and that the pandemic’s relevance to the more than seven years he spent doing mission work in Venezuela includes confronting fear with the power of prayer.
- 1970s
These days, I am counting my blessings more often as we stay sequestered. Reopening our respective towns will not be easy but there is hope now, I believe.
- 1970s
Annie and I are enjoying having our two boys, Benji and Timmy, home again. When not complying with a government-ordered quarantine, Benj works in D.C. for the consulting firm Water Street Partners.
- 1970s
My favorite recollection of the Calvert football team was the ‘Suber Sneak,’ where our massive front line would part the enemy forces, and while the entire blocking force ran to the right in front of Charlie Jenkins, he made a sly handoff to Suber Huang, who would sneak through a gap in the center of the line for a big gain before some huge linebacker flattened him.
- 1970s
During my time at Gilman, I was good friends with Alex, and used to spend the night at his home in Roland Park often.
- 1970s
John Purnell and his wife, Claire, in their 30th year together in Annapolis, “quarantine well together,” he wrote, and “her office is now in our dining room where she is designing books for the Smithsonian and for other customers.
- 1970s
Last year I took the plunge, and bought the ‘retirement home’ down in the warmer climes of central Florida.
- 1970s
Bill Spragins’ “two major life changes in 2019,” he wrote, included that “after 34 years of living in Denver, Colorado, I decided I was not paying enough taxes, so made the move to the San Francisco area to be with my girlfriend, Barbara, whom many of you met at the 40th reunion, and her son, Spencer, who is in 10th grade.
- 1970s
Suber Huang, who was scheduled to be the keynote speaker for the Calvert School’s class of 1970 50th reunion, until that event was postponed amid the pandemic, focused his update less on his ball-carrying skills and more on concerns, including his son’s role in addressing the worldwide plague.
- 1970s
My life is rather strange, even by the current standard. I am living alone. Ann, my wife, is ‘trapped’ in Anguilla, which has not allowed entry to anyone since early April. Ann went back to Anguilla on March 6.
- 1970s
While COVID is a big deal here, as in Baltimore, I think we will have enough beds, ventilators, and PPE.
- 1970s
I am working from home, as most are these days. I must say I don’t like it, as I have always tried hard to separate my work life and my home life. Now that I know I can do it, I just may work from the beach on Fridays this summer, if we are ever allowed to go.
- 1970s
Kirk Smith assured us that “I’m still conducting in various locations around the world and looking forward to the world opening up again. I’m also working from home in the CBD industry as well as world travel. As (Leonard) Nimoy used to say, ‘Fascinating.’”
- 1970s
Dixon Harvey wrote from his home just outside Baltimore that “the most important things on the personal front are that as Janet and I get ready to celebrate our 35th anniversary, our kids, their spouses, and our grandson are all healthy and doing fine through the shutdown."
- 1970s
Garrett Waters’ evangelistic forays and recent sermonizing coincide with his “working part time at present, and thus, have some money to pay my necessities.”
- 1970s
We are all still healthy, and we now count ourselves among the luckiest. Even though Switzerland has among the highest infection rates in the world, social distancing is the default condition in the mountains, so the general lockdown is not very difficult for us.
- 1970s
Also living in Baltimore, Scott Graham wrote that his wife, Beth, is a yoga teacher, their daughter, Maria, is finishing up college, and of the older two children out of school, Duncan lives in San Francisco and is a “techie,” while Rachel is living in Hampden and is a wellness coach.
- 1970s
Among our classmates already making life changes when the pandemic hit was Nick Richardson, who wrote that, “I changed employers at the end of last year leaving M&T to go to Fulton Bank, still in the capacity as an SVP and senior lender."
- 1970s
We are still in Philly as well, and I’m still working for GSK Pharma R&D. I’m also hoping to hang in there for three or more years. Hope everyone is doing well during these difficult times!
- 1970s
Keith Christian, weighing the culinary offerings of Philadelphia and Baltimore, is “still working in law enforcement,” he wrote, but only “a couple more years, and I’ll hang it up. As much as I love hoagies, I miss steamed crabs.”
- 1970s
Charlie Steinberg tallied that this spring marked “the 44th anniversary of our Encounter projects — and mine is beginning its 45th year..."
- 1970s
Angus Finney and his wife, Allyson, were preparing to move to Table Rock Lake, Mo., later this year.
- 1970s
After becoming the 1,459th person to spend the winter at the South Pole, Antarctica in 2015/2016, Darby is now the Partner and COO of the largest independent craft brewery in the country of Colombia. He is still a chef and world traveler while he builds his companies in South America and around the world.
- 1990s
Elizabeth and I returned on March 1 from Belize to our home in Butler, Md., just in time to go into quarantine at home where we have been ever since.
- 1960s
We are still living in Albuquerque and are now legal guardians of our late daughter’s two sons, Jaewon Choi (age 16) and Jin Choi (age 13).
- 1960s
Looking back 60 years, I think we were fortunate to be at Gilman under the leadership of Henry Callard and to be taught by such a gifted faculty.
- 1960s
I have gotten much pleasure lately out of remembering Traveling Men practices at Bill Porter’s house.
- 1960s
No thoughts of retiring from my law practice and civic activities yet. Katie and I are doing more traveling.
- 1960s
2020 started out like any other year here in Italy, then in early February came the news about the spread into Italy of this mysterious coronavirus.
- 1960s
I have produced a new Dixie-Land music piece entitled, “Gilman Strut” on my keyboard and hope the next time we get together in Baltimore, I can play it for you.
- 1960s
What a bummer! Heading into my 79th year, I was hoping Jo and I could get in a little travel, a successful sale of our house in Louisville, and perhaps some of the cold months in Florida or other points south.
- 1960s
In this time of COVID-19, and with the possibility of dying a premature death, I find myself feeling the preciousness of each day.
- 1960s
Hi everyone, it’s so good to hear from all of you! Sit down, folks, because I have a lot to tell you.
- 1960s
Since our class cannot connect this spring as hoped, I send greetings from Colorado, where I am still staying busy. Three things have occupied most of my time over the past year, at least until six fatal weeks of ignorance and deception by a dangerously corrupt and self-serving national administration literally put the lives of our “vulnerable cohort” in danger.
- 1960s
Ski season in Colorado (and my job on Aspen Mt.) ended abruptly on March 14 and Aspen looks like a ghost town now.
- 1960s
Charlie Bradford and his wife, Sue, in retirement, enjoy living in an old family farmhouse on 40 acres in Marshfield, Mass.
- 1960s
Johann Torres is now the senior medical director and chief medical information officer at Miami Beach Community Health Center where he is also an internist and HIV specialist.
- 1980s
On a personal note, I’ve finally retired and am enjoying the peace and quiet.
- 1950s
On a personal note, my wife of 61 years, Evie, (nee Gans) was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early 2020. There is no cure, but rather than curse the darkness, we have chosen to celebrate the incredible life we have had together.
- 1950s
He has been caring for his wife, Betsy, who has suffered with Alzheimers for 15 years.
- 1950s
George Shriver passed away in a retirement home in Tucson, Ariz., on April 24, 2020.
- 1950s
Our Pacific Northwest classmate and lacrosse-legend-turned-treefarmer, Sam Sadler, had this to report...
- 1950s
Another scholar athlete and class treasurer, Cliff Harding, reported that as a member of the “Octo Generation,” he is acutely aware of life’s changes.
- 1950s
Carlton Seitz was newsy as always. Here are the highlights...
- 1950s
Class vice president and classmate voted most popular, Neil Bouscaren, reports that, “Nothing of significance here, still doing a few surveys solo of local fauna and flora for local NGOs.”
- 1950s
Frank Loweree reported that his “big news is that I moved back in with my present wife of 37 years after living under separate roofs for nine years. We both mutually decided that living alone as octogenarians wasn’t much fun.”
- 1950s
Lew Rumford and Fran have had much to do over the past few years, including the sale of their wonderful home in D.C. and the purchase and renovation of two condo units into one large one in a lovely D.C. building not far from the Naval Observatory.
- 1960s
Being in an assisted/independent living facility, Nancy and I are very restricted, and not by our own limiting. No activities, no dining room socializing, no trips, i.e. no diversion.
- 1950s
John still pursues his great love of sailing, but no longer as a skipper.
- 1950s
Among our scholar athletes (I was neither) is former Class President Charlie O’Donovan, who is living the life of the typical ninth-decader and lamenting the fact that it’s spring, the grass is green, the trees are full, the flowers are blooming, BUT — as of this writing, the golf courses are closed thanks to COVID-19.
- 1950s
Larry Wagner reported that he and DeeDee are “sheltering in place” on Florida’s Marathon Key, a challenge made easier by the fact that as of this writing, Florida has closed the only highway from the top of the Keys all the way to Key West to all but residents and people who have legitimate business in the Keys.
- 1950s
Another of our ground-pawing peripatetic classmates, Scott Sullivan, is stuck in place, in his case New Orleans, for the duration.
- 1950s
Dave Andrew and Bonnie, back from three weeks in New Zealand last year, had a three-week trip planned from Honolulu to New York for five days.
- 1950s
My wife, Lisa, and I celebrated our third wedding anniversary this May. We live in Dundalk where we both grew up. She’s quite the Greyhound wrestling fan...
- 1980s
I am a partner at Rimon Law, an international law firm with a new Baltimore office. I still do real estate transactions and real estate litigation.
- 1980s
Rob Demeule is a civil engineer at Huitt-Zollars in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- 1980s
Rob Mendelsohn is a senior software engineer at Neurala in Boston.
- 1980s
In 2019, Reverend Tim Schenck of The Episcopal Parish of St. John the Evangelist in Hingham, Mass., published a new book, “Holy Grounds: The Surprising Connection between Coffee and Faith — From Dancing Goats to Satan’s Drink.”
- 1980s
I have been with Walt Disney World for the past 22 years after serving as the assistant general manager for the Stockton Ports Professional Baseball Club. For the last 10 years, I have been the manager of Food and Beverage Concept Development Projects.
- 1980s
I am still down in sunny Sao Paulo, Brazil. I am the general manager of iCAABS, a consulting firm that helps international companies expand into the Brazilian market.
- 1980s
I’m living in Media, Pa., with my wife (20-year anniversary coming up!) and three kids, the oldest a senior in high school. I’m an anesthesiologist at a local community hospital with neuroscience, trauma, and burn center.
- 1980s
I am celebrating ten years at Brown Advisory on July 1 where I am focused on client work and community engagement. I volunteer on five nonprofits and otherwise try to catch every sports event of my two high schoolers — one at Gilman, one at RPCS. All good!
- 1980s
I am a pediatric heart surgeon at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. I have a busy lab doing research on surgical planning in virtual reality, tissue engineering, and artificial hearts.
- 1980s
All is well in Charlotte, N.C. I retired from Bank of America a few years ago. Took some time to fish and do some Habitat builds in El Salvador.
- 1980s
I live in San Antonio, Texas, with my wife, Debra, and sons, Aidan and Kyan. I am the senior financial officer for USAA Residential Real Estate Services.
- 1980s
I have been social distancing since mid-March with my family in Santa Fe. All are well. I opened up my own consulting company last fall — Fish Leadership Consulting — helping schools, universities, and companies to build cultures of leadership (fishleadership.org). Wishing all Gilman community safety and good health!
- 1980s
I have become an avid saltwater fisherman but am limited by sea sickness. I still strive to be a Redmond Finney first-class citizen and pick up trash when I see it!
- 1980s
I live in Manhattan with my wife, Georgia, and my two boys, William (18) and Robert (16).
- 1980s
I am living (and now working) in Bethesda, Md., with my wife and three kids (two of whom were in college before COVID).
- 1980s
I am still living in Alexandria and I’m in my 19th year working with the Department of Labor as Director of real estate services for their Job Corps portfolio (I’m a consultant with CBRE but have been on this particular contract since 2002.)
- 1980s
I have been working as a senior electrical engineer for a company called Aloft for the past four years.
- 1980s
My wife, Megan, and I live in Annapolis with our three kids.
- 1980s
Hugh Marbury and his wife, Elise, have two high school children in Annapolis, and Hugh is now a partner in the D.C. law office of Cozen O’Connor.
- 1980s
Kenzie Marty and wife Elizabeth have four children in Rodgers Forge, and his oldest daughter is about to graduate from the University of South Carolina.
- 1980s
Rick Roebuck and his wife, Jen, are at home with their SMU freshman Ted while their older son Ricky is living off campus until he graduates from the University of Richmond.
- 1980s
I recently moved our Merrill Lynch wealth management team to Hunt Valley and coach travel soccer.
- 1980s
All is good in the Wyskiel house. Christy is doing her Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures work from our sunroom.
- 1980s
I moved to Greenspring Valley in January, leaving Roland Park. Jack is graduating from Gilman this year, off to study and play lacrosse at Syracuse next year.
- 1980s
Pre-COVID-19, I had the good fortune of not only celebrating 100 years of Gilman Wrestling, but also watching my nephew Andy Weinstein ‘20 be crowned the 126lb MIAA champion.
- 1980s
Currently, I am head of school at the Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, Fla. It’s been a whirlwind of change as we have experienced the novel coronavirus and its impact on our economy.
- 1980s
We are just trying to manage through the pandemic as best we can. Like many of us are probably doing, I’m teleworking from home, still with KPMG, and currently on a rotation with their audit technology office.
- 1980s
I am a vice president with The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company. I have been with W-T for 28 years since graduating with a civil engineering degree.
- 1980s
I started a new position with Honda Motors Trading Division: risk manager for Honda’s North America regional supply chain activity.
- 1980s
I live in San Carlos, Calif., with my wife, Kelly, and two sons, Nate (16) and Xander (13).
- 1980s
My wife Corie is doing great after a battle with breast cancer. My oldest transferred to our alma mater, UVA, and is headed there in the fall.
- 1980s
I am two years in now as the founding director of the Burlington City & Lake Semester. It’s an immersive program in partnership with Burlington High School that gives a diverse group of 20 juniors and seniors the chance to use the city as their classroom for one semester.
- 1980s
I am a partner in Franklin Financial Group. We work with businesses and individuals all over the country with their employee benefits, insurance, and retirement planning.
- 1980s
Ethan Weiss chronicled his decision to head to New York from San Francisco to help treat COVID-19 patients
- 1980s
Laura and I are still in Baltimore. She’s working part time for an internist and watching our grandson, Harry, two days a week.
- 1970s
In a quite remarkable coincidence of health events, Rick Green, Gordy Allen ‘65/’66 and I, all of us born within 60 days of each other, were each diagnosed with prostate cancer within 60 days during fall 2019.
- 1960s
Greetings from sunny South Florida where Sara and I are stranded in paradise.
- 1970s
Matt Buck enjoyed a very proud moment, in June of 2019, with the graduation of daughter Abby from the school that Matt heads, Calvert Middle School.
- 1990s
Neil Harris has completed his first year of retirement with wife Ann, moving from Boston to their place in New London, N.H., where they are enjoying rural life.
- 1960s
Steve Redd is retired, but he reports he is the person who opens the Towson Y each morning at 4 a.m.
- 1960s
Jimmy Potter recalled the 50th anniversary of his UVA lacrosse championship team. Jimmer was captain and an All-American midfielder on that team.
- 1960s
From left to right - George Ward, Rip Zink, David Winstead, George Brown, Alex Yearley, King Carter
- 1960s
Gordy Allen and Jan welcomed their third grandchild, Olivia, in June of 2019.
- 1960s
Tom Webster reports that he is now a grandfather.
- 1960s
He is still working with Marquette Associates, a $220 billion investment advisor out of Chicago. Since his firm merged into Marquette, he has had more time to be involved in a couple of nonprofits, Baltimore Tree Trust and the Church of the Good Shepherd.
- 1960s
Although this is hard to believe, Marcia Goldberg has put up with Nelson for 45 years of marriage!
- 1960s
I am consumed fighting huge industrial open-net salmon farms being introduced into Nova Scotia’s bays and harbors.
- 1960s
John Helfrich is a grandfather, now for the third time, but is worried that our Class Notes are moving closer to the front.
- 1960s
Diane and I and family are all alive and doing well under the current virus restrictions.
- 1960s
Coming up on three years since closing ceremonies this coming May, and I can still remember sweating through my blue button-down and blazer.
- 2010s
During this time I have been able to continue my acting through a group called The Pandemic Players who present classic play readings over YouTube every Saturday evening.
- 1960s
Butch West and wife, Peggy, still are living in the house Otts found for them years ago.
- 1960s
David Trussel is another one of these winter travelers, but not to Florida.
- 1960s
T Tall reports that he is now entering his 10th year building houses for Habitat for Humanity.
- 1960s
John Stockbridge is still living in Bedford, N.Y. with his wife, Anita. He right now gets the distance award for the Grumpies dinners when he comes.
- 1960s
John Snead is enjoying retirement.
- 1960s
Tom Salisbury continues to work on his six-month house upgrade.
- 1960s
Carol and I moved into Stonebridge at Montgomery, a continuing care retirement community just north of Princeton in September of 2019.
- 1960s
Linda and I have little to report other than coping with various skeletal issues (backs, necks) but soldiering on.
- 1960s
Moby Mudge and Sis (wife) and Lark (German shepherd) have finished upsizing the kennel in Sharon, Conn., to which they downsized in 2018.
- 1960s
I am looking forward to our 60th reunion and to seeing all my “old friends.”
- 1960s
Corbin Marr and Liz are so enjoying DC life and visiting old friends and classmates in Baltimore often
- 1960s
Nothing important has happened to me. I am somewhat busy trying to make money to pass on to my wife and children.
- 1960s
Nancy and I are spending our second winter in our new home on Jupiter Island.
Bill Hardy is doing well. Last summer, he and Lin did a cruise from Moscow to St. Petersburg with his son’s family and his sister.
- 1960s
John Gerhardt and his wife, Ann, have had a stressful year. In July, their son, Mo, was taken to the hospital and placed into ICU. According to John’s note in October, everything that could have gone wrong, did. Except Mo’s determination kept him going.
- 1960s
Jim Garrett writes that the tradition continues: Edie and I have three Greyhound grandsons.
- 1960s
Scott Faulkner enjoys his time and family as always
- 1960s
Jack Emory continues to be the “snowbird,” after 46 years in Maine, escaping Maine winters for the sixth year in Vero Beach
- 1960s
Chris Creed has been busy traveling and dodging a few bullets: “2019 was a mixed year for Barbara and me...
- 1960s
Steve Cordi is adjusting, he says: “Now, in early April, Marque and I have settled into seclusion in our Roland Park home. On the whole, it’s been very pleasant, as doing nothing turns out to be one of my skill sets.”
- 1960s
Bryson Christhilf reports that he is still living a relaxed life.
- 1960s
Rick Born says things remain pretty much the same...
- 1960s
Ted Leach is now in his seventh year teaching first- and second-year med students at F.H. Netter School of Medicine.
- 1960s
Bob Dobbin’s response emphasized spending significant time with his four grandchildren (two 5-year-olds and two 1-year-olds).
- 1960s
John Loeb writes that despite his and and Anna Belle’s love of New Orleans, they are moving back to Philadelphia to be closer to their son Locke and four grandchildren.
- 1960s
Dave Robinson and Tom Chase caught up halfway between their respective residences in Salem, N.H., where Dave spoke of enjoying lunch in Amsterdam with then expat Tom Salisbury, who has since moved to Boise, Idaho.
- 1960s
Craig Cutter had some good news. He is healthy and feels good “except when I look in the mirror or remember that our youngest grandchild graduates from college this spring.”
- 1960s
Bill Paternotte, who had recently returned this winter from fly fishing in Patagonia with son Chris, now has a grandson in each of Gilman’s three divisions, and still works at Brown Investment Advisory as well as with nonprofits.
- 1960s
It’s unlikely that anyone in our class visited more classmates around the country than Tom Chase.
- 1960s
Nothing to report that everyone is not already all too familiar with.
- 1960s
For yours truly, life has become less frenzied as I seek to understand it better by attempting an autobiography. I also continue to write about, photograph, and sell mineral specimens online.
- 1960s
Paul Dowling, while reporting no changes, boasted of a notable accomplishment.
- 1960s
George Scarlett is still teaching at Tufts and finds enjoyment FaceTiming with his new granddaughter Sadie in NYC.
- 1960s
Teddy Mudge and Joan live in Ligonier, Pa., where they raise thoroughbred race horses.
- 1960s
Bill Lamb and wife Jenny moved — for the 14th time since they’ve been together.
- 1960s
Lance Bendann enjoyed excursions to Williamsburg, Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Shore, Chadds Ford, Stone Harbor, N.J., Chautauqua, and Washington and Lee.
- 1960s
Unfortunately diagnosed with Parkinson’s and prostate cancer.
- 1960s
Robin Baker traveled to the same part of the world as Jack Nesbitt. Upon returning, Robin spent a week in UNC Hospital (followed by three weeks of home care) with an encephalitis infection.
- 1960s
Jack Nesbitt enjoyed a Baltic cruise in late June and early July 2019 before a traditional two-week visit to the family cottage in Canada.
- 1960s
See what Jimmy Rouse has been up to by going to portfolio.jimmyrouse.com.
- 1960s
Barry has been in the commercial real estate development and investments business for 47 years.
- 1960s
Ward Coe and Christie went to Rincon, Puerto Rico, in February, Western Ireland in April, and in October to Uganda and Rwanda on an excursion that included tracking chimpanzees and mountain gorillas
- 1960s
Our most traveled classmate, Ed Supplee, visited Cuba independently and drove the length of the island.
- 1960s
His son and daughter-in-law both work in the emergency room at GBMC.
- 1960s
Peter Rodman wrote that a family reunion in Cape Cod in May to celebrate his 75th birthday might not happen.
- 1960s
From Naples, Florida, John Claster, after expressing sadness over the losses of Craig Woodward and Reddy, reported only that trips he and Heather had planned for Europe in May and Idaho this summer could well end up on hold.
- 1960s
From his winter residence in Florida, Bill Legg mentioned that as president of a golf club in Key Largo he was preparing for a board meeting that would decide whether to close the club to guests and family members just as spring break was about to flood its membership with kids and grandkids.
- 1960s
Peter Ness relates from his home in Connecticut that he remains vertical thanks to a hip replacement and is reliving his love of lacrosse through his grandchildren.
- 1950s
Some sad news to report. This past year we lost G.B. Gordon and Bill Woodward to illness.
- 1950s
Some nice news. Gus Lewis remarried January 11 to Debbie Woods. Jim and Judi Gieske and Sam and Genya Hopkins were in attendance
- 1950s
Sam Hopkins and wife Genya still live in the same duplex they first occupied in 1969.
- 1950s
Jim Gieske and Judi have moved from their house of 46 years to a smaller one in downtown Easton.
- 1950s
Pat Mundy is still working at the Maine State Prison, where he continues to teach American History and Justice to inmates.
- 1950s
Conway Ziegler reports of a wonderful trip taken in June 2019, with his daughter Julia (now 26), to London, Paris, and the Normandy celebration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 4.
- 1960s
Richard Wasserman “Wass” reports that he “timed out” at Venable, after almost 40 years there, in December 2017, and joined the Baltimore-based firm Offit Kurman.
- 1960s
Since our 50th reunion, Charlie Fenwick has made major changes and taken a giant step into retirement.
- 1960s
Bryson Cook and Cindy hosted the marriage of their daughter, Laura, to Brooks Wunder in mid-November at their home in Palm Beach.
- 1960s
Always, one of our most adaptable classmates, Crossan O’Donovan and wife, Brenda, have tolerated and survived COVID isolation in their new retirement center in Raleigh, North Carolina, and are seeming to appreciate the gradual opening up of things.
- 1950s
Fred Neesemann reports that he has recently moved to a retirement community in Jacksonville, Florida...
- 1950s
Once again, Bentley Offutt hosted a very enjoyable luncheon for Joe Healey, who was visiting Baltimore from Kenya. In attendance were Dick Biggs, Cooper Graham, Julian Jones, Phil Briscoe, and yours truly.
- 1950s
Spencer Everett has married again, as reported last year, to Ellen, his “#1 bridge instructor!”
- 1950s
Ralph (Merrill) Lincoln is still living in New Castle, N.H., and enjoys sailing his Wianno Senior gaff-rigged sloop as often as he can in the Cape Cod area, but he’s not racing as much as before.
- 1950s
Jim Hartle retired from the University of California-Santa Barbara 15 years ago, but he still goes into the office most days “working hard to understand the beginning of the universe through theoretical physics.”
- 1950s
Fritz Baukhages reports that he and wife Ann spend winter months at their condominium in Southern Pines, N.C., but continue to live in Luray, Va., where they have been for many years.
- 1950s
Dick Biggs provided a very interesting summary of his life since Gilman, covering his education, his career, his family, and his health.
- 1950s
Lorne Smith is living in Lafayette, Calif., outside of San Francisco with wife Ashley and two daughters, Mozelle (7) and June (5). Lorne is working in lacrosse for TRUE Sports building the next great brand of lacrosse gear, while also coaching in town and making his own lacrosse products under the Firethreads brand. Lorne was inducted into the US Lacrosse Baltimore Chapter Hall of Fame a few years ago.
- 1990s
Aaron Hunter bought a new house in Timonium and promises to get himself some Vineyard Vines clothing.
- 1990s
Paul Schilpp lives in New Canaan, Conn., and works at a private equity firm in town. He has three little ones, ages 9, 8, and 2.
- 1990s
Alex Mueller lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife, Kari, and two children, Anja (12) and Beck (10). He enjoys coaching baseball and basketball, fly fishing, skiing, and hiking with his dog in the foothills of Idaho. He runs the engineering department for SigningDay and is a freelance software engineer.
- 1990s
Mark Abrams is the chief product officer for Ascend Learning’s nursing education division. He lives in Ellicott City and is married with four boys.
- 1990s
Drew Poffel leads a team at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, based in Rockefeller Center. He works primarily with HNW individuals, families, and small institutions. He’s been living on the Upper East Side of Manhattan for the past 10 years.
- 1990s
Jay Arnold has lived in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. for the past 15 years. He left Investment Banking in NYC and headed back to grad school for his MBA at Darden (UVA).
- 1990s
Nauman Siddiqi moved back to Baltimore five years ago. He is an interventional cardiologist and works just down the street from Gilman at Union Memorial. Nauman and his wife, Aiza, have a 7-year-old son, Zidan, who is in first grade at Gilman.
- 1990s
Lieutenant Colonel Brian Holloway is serving in the Army as an engineer. He is currently stationed near Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, working on a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology.
- 1990s
Herb Beatson moved to San Francisco in September of 2018 after 15 years in D.C. to join Sepio Capital as co-CIO and managing director. He is running a hedge fund and real estate private investment fund for the firm. He is currently splitting time between San Francisco and Utah.
- 1990s
David Payne and his wife, Jennifer, live in Baltimore with their sons, Beckett (6) and Xander (3). David is currently the CFO of Tessemae’s and spends his down time volunteering for the football program at Saint Frances Academy.
- 1990s
Doug Hamilton lives in Baltimore City with his wife, Angela, and daughter, Charlie, age 10.
- 1990s
Matt Carbine works at Calvert Hall. He has a 10-year-old daughter and just finished an MBA at Loyola University Maryland.
- 1990s
Terrance Whitehead is residing in Northern Virginia with his wife, Kourtney, where he has been for the last 20 years.
- 1990s
Andy Snow and his wife, Kim, are celebrating their 15th anniversary and live near Annapolis with their two boys.
- 1990s
Peter Bridgman is the president of Visionworks, a $1B eyecare company based in San Antonio. He has two little girls, Evy (4) and Charlie (2), and is married to Hilary.
- 1990s
James McIntyre lives in Mountain Lakes, N.J., with his wife, Lauren, two boys, Trevor (8) and Grant (7), and daughter Adair (4). He coaches his boys’ lacrosse and works in New York as Sr. MD and COO of Moore Strategic Ventures.
- 1990s
Hans Breville is currently working at PwC, advising health care clients on how to transform to best meet market and customer demands.
- 1990s
Dr. Arman Taghizadeh is a board-certified child, adolescent, adult psychiatrist and a sports psychiatrist.
- 1990s
Brandon Thornton lives in Baltimore. He just started his 17th year at the Public Defender’s Office. He got married last year.
- 1990s
Corey Popham is married with three children and lives in Rumson, N.J. His kids are 14, 13, and 11. Corey works in Manhattan for BTIG, which is an Investment Bank. In his free time, he enjoys coaching his children’s basketball and lacrosse teams.
- 1990s
Dan McGill lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, Nicole, and two girls (Josie, 5 and Dulany, 2). He earned his master’s in real estate from MIT. He works for a value-add focused real estate development firm and skis whenever/wherever the opportunity presents itself.
- 1990s
Brett Myerson lives in Baltimore with his wife, Kelly, daughter, Sophia (9), and son, William (5). He is heading into his fourth year as in-house counsel for Priority 1 Automotive Group.
- 1990s
Jason McCormick lives in Towson with his dog, Mosby. He is managing McCormick’s charitable giving and outreach programs.
- 1990s
Robby Kang is an assistant clinical professor in head and neck cancer and facial plastic surgery at City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is also in a part-time touring band called Help The Doctor.
- 1990s
Spencer Finney lives in St. Louis with his wife, Jodie (of 18 years), and four daughters, Margot (12), Sarah Catherine (10), Julia (7), and Josephine (5). He is a partner in a small private equity firm called Sage Capital, where he has worked since 2005.
- 1990s
After fifteen years of living in NYC, Alex Lopez, his wife, and two young daughters have settled down outside of Chicago, where he works as a portfolio manager.
- 1990s
Bryan Lopez is married to Danielle and has three children, ages 14, 11, and 10 years old. His daughters, Olivia and Lexi, started eighth and fourth grades at RPCS this year. Luke is at Saint James Academy.
- 1990s
Bart Kenney completed medical school, pathology residency, and a GI/hepatobiliary fellowship at Yale. He was an assistant professor at the Yale School of Medicine for several years before eventually taking a job in private practice. He lives with his wife, Alexa, also a physician at Yale, and his daughter, Charlotte (age 4) in Westbrook, Conn.
- 1990s
Dr. Amani Hemphill lives in Leesburg, Va. He is practicing wound care and plastic surgery. In 2018, he founded Skyline Wound Care PLLC, specializing in skilled nursing wound care in W.Va. Amani is also looking for venture capital.
- 1990s
Will Gee is living in Fells Point with his wife, Blair, and spends his days creating virtual and augmented reality at Balti Virtual, a company he founded in 2015.
- 1990s
Travis Brown and Heather live in Pikesville, Md., and are raising three daughters (ages 13, 10, and 7). Travis has a financial advisory practice of 18+ years, and when not at work you can find him in nature, usually biking the local trails.
- 1990s
Lewis Applefeld lives with his wife, Pamela, son, and twin girls in Rye, N.Y. Lewis helps manage a private investment fund
- 1990s
Jon Jachman lives in Rye, N.Y. with his wife, Arielle, and children Matt, Blake, and Hannah. He is a portfolio manager at Taconic Capital, where he has spent the past 19 years. In his free time, he enjoys helping coach his children’s soccer and lacrosse teams.
- 1990s
Ben Wilson lives in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife, Courtney, and their three children, and works in New York City at Barclays.
- 1990s
Anand Dutta is currently a gastroenterologist specializing in biliary and pancreatic disorders working at Wellspan York Hospital in York, Pa. Anand is married to Tara who is a vascular neurologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. They live in Hunt Valley, Md., and have three children (Divya, 6, Jyoti, 4, and Sonal, 1.)
- 1990s
Karthik Balakrishnan is currently an associate professor of pediatric head and neck surgery at the Mayo Clinic, specializing in reconstructing kids’ airways.
- 1990s
After 40 years of practicing law, I retired last year. I have been thoroughly enjoying the freedom retirement brings.
- 1970s
I am still living in Rock Hall on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
- 1950s
This is his son Ed '84 advising that my father Gene Austen '63 passed away peacefully on 11/15/19.
- 1960s
David B. Levy Ph.D. was recently featured in UMCP Alumni Spotlight, which notes David’s forthcoming 10-volume set, three volumes published so far.
- 1980s
- 2010s
- 1980s
It is with great sadness I report the death of my father, Bruce Turnbull, age 88.
- 1950s
David Biddison and Delia live in Newtown Square, Pa., with their son (12) and daughter (8). They have lived in the Philadelphia area for the last 14+ years. David co-owns Traditions of America, a real estate development and homebuilding company.
- 1990s
Dylan Slagle is currently living in Westminster, Md., with his wife, Julie, and son, Nathan, 8. He has been working as a newspaper photographer for the Carroll County Times and Baltimore Sun Media Group for the past 14 years.
- 1990s
- 1990s
Marcus Simms is still living in Atlanta after 21 years, but still keeping the pulse of Baltimore politics. Marcus recently hosted the Gilman Atlanta Alumni event in January 2020.
- 1990s
Living in DC, working as a software engineer for Fundrise. I recently finished an M.S. in Computer Science.
- 2010s
I continue to do a bit of doctoring, in retirement from JH Medicine, using the Spanish I began with Alf Townsend at Gilman, to volunteer offering primary care to Baltimore's undocumented immigrants at Esperanza Center.
- 1950s
- 1950s
- 1960s
My wife of 47 years, Robin, passed on in 2017. Our two daughters are living here in Washington State, and we have 3 grandchildren. Some of you remember my brother, Dave. He is living in Blacksburg, VA. (He doesn't have e-mail at present.)
- 1950s
At age 65, having completely read Social Security and Medicare for Dummies, I have alas decided to continue to work, most likely until I drop.
- 1970s
I caught up with (retired teacher) Cary Woodward ‘53, and John Behm ‘76 at Miss Shirley’s for lunch in early October.
- 1970s
Dr. Rodney Glasgow '97 recently spoke with students, faculty, parents, and members of the community in the middle and upper schools at the Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS) on questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- 1980s
Mitchell Whiteman, Stewart Kesmodel, and Than'l Badder caught up at October's Baltimore Homecoming event held in the newly re-opened Broadway Market and Choptank Restaurant.
- 1990s
Thomas G. Bias of Flanders, NJ died peacefully at home following a long illness on October 17, 2019, surrounded by his wife, Linda Bryk, and daughter, Fiona Kyle.
- 1960s
I was in LA for work and wanted to find a place to watch the Ravens-Cardinals Game.
- 1990s
It's been a busy year for the Cha family. Zan and I are extremely blessed and proud to see our kids grow up and move on to their next stages of life.
- 1990s
Living and working in Los Angeles. Currently as an engineer at Tinder.
- 2010s
My family and I continue to call Manhattan home. Work is at NYU Langone. Play is in Miami. All is well after 29 years.
- 1990s
Our classmate Cary Stewart passed away August 1, 2019.
- 1960s
Members of the class of 1982 – including Tom Waxter, Taylor Classen, Frank Bonsal, Chris Alevizatos, Glenn Lacher, George Doub, Billy Matthews, and Tim Krongard
- 1980s
Dad lived the last year of his life at Blakehurst in Towson, where my visits on Sunday afternoon afforded brief chats with Angus Finney and Ken Volk, and with younger schoolmates who also provided valuable insights on that transition.
- 1970s
Working in the Southwest and vacationing in the Northeast, Frank Vecella wrote that he and Pam “married off both kids last year.
- 1970s
Not far from Baltimore, Randy Kiefer wrote, “Lynn and I continue to live out in Reisterstown, and I work from home for the American Institute of Physics covering Asia Pacific. Lynn spends time with our granddaughter Taryn 3-4 days a week. Taryn will start kindergarten in the fall, so there will be more free time – maybe. Our daughter Bethany continues working at the Owings Mills branch of the Baltimore County Library, while her husband Jason works for SECU.”
- 1970s
Bob Thomas shared his take on these unprecedented times, and on the continuing legacy of a classmate we lost not long after our Gilman days had ended.
- 1970s
Retirement can mean just switching from full time at one job to part-time at another, as Jim Bergunder wrote from Rheinfelden, Switzerland, “We are doing well in our now 23rd year living in Switzerland, and this has now become our likely endpoint.
- 1970s
Not much new to report career-wise, still keeping busy bridging the medical and IT and informatics worlds in my role as the Chief Apology Officer (apologizing to all the Yale doctors for the extra clicks the EHR; it'll be interesting what we can do with all the data one day though).
- 1990s
Duane Holloway left the New York City area and moved to Pittsburgh in early 2018 to join U. S. Steel as its SVP, General Counsel, Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary.
- 1990s
Big news for 2019 - the reality of middle age is setting in. More back hair, less head hair.
- 1990s
- 2000s
- 2000s
Hill continues to work at RCM&D, his same company, for over 50 years! He remains active, playing golf regularly and having regular lunches with FRANK and DICK RIGGS.
- 1950s
Pattsy and I have moved to the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. Mac Plant and Carey Martien are also residents there so we are in good company.
- 1950s
We have a novelist in our midst! John Lewin recently composed his first novel, “The Black Jacaru.”
- 1950s
Although I didn’t hear from him this year, I wanted to mention Ludlow Keeney for his effect on our psychic well-being during his time with us at Gilman and afterwards.
- 1950s
Sandy Cochran and his wife of 56 years, Allie, appear to be making Alexandria, Va., their permanent residence after previously living in eight different locations.
- 1950s
Eddie Brown and I had a nice phone conversation a month or two ago. Aside from the reassurance that we have more body parts that work than ones that don’t, we reminisced about Willie and his being our wrestling captain and winning two MSA championships.
- 1950s
Our retired rear admiral, Millard Firebaugh, continues to reside in Annapolis.
- 1950s
My wife and I welcomed our first child our daughter Madeline Pearl Huber on November 21 2017. |
- 2000s
Adam became a named partner at Janet, Janet and Suggs, LLC.
- 2000s
Fitzhugh Lee, a junior at the United States Air Force Academy, was inducted into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, for being in the top 7% academically of his class.
- 2010s
I am graduating from Dartmouth this June and moving to San Francisco in August. Let me know if you will be in the area!
- 2010s
I graduated from Johns Hopkins University from School of Arts and Sciences in May and will start at AXA Advisors in July.
- 2010s
STEVE THOMAS is working and going strong! His daughter, Anastasia, works for Tome's law firm and has two children, both of whom attend Calvert School.
- 1960s
JACK TURNBULL says that he is enjoying retirement as well, with two trips to Europe, one to Switzerland and one to England. Jack
- 1960s
FRED WHELAN has retired from teaching four years ago due to declining eyesight, but he finished his last book, a text on democracy.
- 1960s
STAN KLINEFELTER retired from Brown Advisory late last year, so he was able to take care of Sarah, who was very ill in December and January.
- 1960s
RIDGE TRIMBLE visited CLAY PRIMROSE in San Miguel de Allenda. Ridge reports Clay is enjoying the life as an expat in Mexico. More from Clay later. |
- 1960s
Our daughter loves living in Baltimore and teaching art at Garrison Forest School.
- 1960s
Each fall, I volunteer as an English conversation aide for middle and high schoolers in Gyergyoszentmiklos (Transylvania), Romania.
- 1970s
I also had breakfast with WALTER and SUSAN BIRGE while visiting friends in Concord MA.
- 1950s
- 1950s
Lyons George is pursuing his juris doctor degree at Stanford Law School.
- 2000s
Your secretary is still in an apartment in Crozet, Virginia, only a few miles from two of his daughters and their families. Other than a weekly Meals on Wheels delivery and calling Bingo at a nearby retirement home once a week, I vegetate.
- 1950s
Bill Blue wrote to say that Chipper has joined Charlie Obrecht, Gatch, Tom Waxter and him in their monthly luncheon get-togethers. He now has a great-grandson, William F. Blue IV.
- 1950s
Note from George Callard's wife: George has had several strokes in recent years and is currently in a long-term care facility for incurable neurological diagnosis.
- 1950s
Dick Gatchell, who has moved to the same retirement home on Joppa Road that Chipper Hoff and wife, Peggy, are now living in.
- 1950s
Bill Trimble has passed away.
- 1950s
Ever efficient with words, CHIP OFFUT writes: "No updates, and that is good news these days." Amen
- 1950s
I (we) am (are) moving back the Mid Atlantic States on May 18, 2019, after 32 years in Chicago and one year in Indianapolis doing my hand surgery fellowship. Bean and I have a home in Delaplane, Va. we moved out of our home in Winnetka in 2017 and I have been in an apartment in Evanston since then and Bean led the charge to Virginia.
- 1970s
I will be joining the Chinese tech giant Tecent's Investment & M&A team in Bejjing after graduation from U of Chicago in June, 2018.
- 2010s
Christopher Clark lives in Franklin, MA with his wife. three kids, two dogs, one cat, one bird, and an axolotl.
- 1990s
I am living in northern Virginia and working in Washington, D.C. at DLA Piper.
- 1990s
Keep up with Jason and his family.
- 1990s
James B. Young '57 passed away on February 18, 2018.
- 1950s
I can report feeling relatively healthy, wealthy enough, and wise enough.
- 1950s
There should be a selection RUMINATIONS1. it was the 5th-grade end of the day in the little white cottage and Mr. Goodwin startled us all by bringing a book out and reading aloud to us.
- 1950s
Keep up with Bruce and his family.
- 1960s
I am excited to announce I have a book coming out about marketing, analytics and org dynamics called The High Roller Experience. Available on Amazon now and bookstores soon. Click here.
- 1980s
Excited to announce the merger of my family business, Chase Fitzgerald & Co with another locally owned firm with multiple generations of roots in the real estate industry, O'Conor & Mooney (they're both Loyola guys but we won't hold it against them.) We are now known as O'Conor Mooney & Fitzgerald.
- 1990s
Still working on the indigent appelate cases in both federal+state courts. Sentences are insanely long, espically for those poor people of color, Great relief to go to Lake Tahoe and see our daughter Caitlin play cello in the symphany there.
- 1950s
Approaching the age of 84! Had a nice visit with Chipper and Peggy Haff here in Charleston several months ago over dinner.
- 1950s
Loving life on the Eastern Shore. Had to give up golf, but playing + singing in a band.
- 1940s
With great sadness we learned that Michael Swanson passed away on October 24, 2018.
- 1960s
Read more about your peers in Alumni Buzz!
James Piper Bond '77, the longtime president and CEO of Living Classrooms Foundation, has been named a member of the 2021 class of inductees into the Business and Civic Hall of Fame by The Baltimore Sun. These distinguished men and women, who are chosen for their leadership and community focus, will be honored at an awards banquet in September. Living Classrooms seeks to disrupt the cycle of poverty through hands-on education and training programs. James has led the organization since 1995, though he joined it nearly a decade earlier as its first full-time employee. Under his guidance, Living Classrooms now reaches 25,000 young people annually. Read the full story here.
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- BUZZ News
Former University of Texas at El Paso quarterback Kai Locksley '15 has signed a contract with the NFL's Miami Dolphins. In two years at UTEP, Kai appeared in 20 games and completed 186 of 350 passes (53.1%) for 2,266 yards with nine touchdowns and 14 interceptions. He also rushed 237 times for 875 yards and 11 touchdowns. This is the first NFL team for Kai, who will play wide receiver for the Dolphins. Read the full story here.
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- Athletic News
- BUZZ News
President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate Jonathan Davidson '89 to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs at the Department of Treasury. Jonathan has worked on Capitol Hill for more than two decades, serving as Senator Michael Bennet’s Chief of Staff since 2011. Previous to that, he served as Chief of Staff to Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative John Sarbanes '80, and Chief Counsel to Senator Mark Warner. During the transition, Davidson served as the Biden-Harris Transition’s Economic Nominations Confirmation team lead. Davidson is also an Adjunct Professor at American University’s School of Public Policy where he teaches a class on the Legislative Process. Davidson clerked for Judge William Sessions, Chief Judge of the Federal District Court of Vermont. Read the full announcement here.
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Leon Newsome '88 has been named Senior Vice President, Chief Security Officer for the National Basketball Association (NBA) where he will oversee all aspects of security operations for the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League, and the soon-to-launch Basketball Africa League, as well as the NBA’s 15 offices worldwide. Previously, Leon served as the Deputy Director of the U.S. Secret Service, where he oversaw the daily investigative and protective operations globally, implemented emerging protective technologies, and led the agency’s public and private partnerships on issues directly impacting national security. “Leon is an extraordinarily accomplished security professional and leader and we are grateful to welcome him to the NBA,” said NBA President, Administration Bob Criqui. “His vast experience with the Secret Service on a global basis will be an enormous benefit to our fans, players, teams, and staff.” Read the full announcement here.
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Army freshman guard Jalen Rucker '19 was named to the Patriot League's All-Rookie team. He is the 18th Black Knight to do so and the first since 2016-17. Jalen averaged 9.5 points, 1.9 rebounds, and 23.9 minutes per game. He shot 36.3 percent from the field, and led the team with 50 assists in 19 contests. Read the full story here.
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- Athletic News
- BUZZ News
Kadeem Rodgers '08 has been named assistant athletic director and head football coach at Episcopal High School (Alexandria, VA). Since 2019, Kadeem has been the head football coach at Millbrook School in New York, where he was also the Associate Director of Admissions; Co-Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and a dorm parent. At Millbrook, his team went 6-1 in 2019 in just its third year of competition following a nearly 40-year hiatus. Kadeem previously served as Episcopal’s offensive and defensive line coach from 2015-18; the team went 27-9-1 over those four years and won two IAC championships.
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Although the Ivy League's spring lacrosse season hangs in uncertainty, Yale freshman Jack Stuzin '20 has been named the sixth-best incoming freshman by Inside Lacrosse. The defenseman/longstick midfielder spent the fall doing schoolwork remotely, and following an intense workout and strict diet program while in Park City, Utah. Click here to read more about how Jack decided to join the Bulldogs.
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- Athletic News
Jakob Metz '11, a Baltimore-based attorney, and friends from the University of Maryland noticed a concerning amount of hesitation about the new COVID-19 vaccines. So, they decided to create a vehicle for people to show their support for vaccinations. Their website, vaccinepledge.org, allows individuals to sign a pledge to get a COVID-19 vaccine when it is available to them and to share this pledge on social media. Their hope is that when people see family, friends, and neighbors committing to getting vaccinated, they will become more comfortable with the idea themselves. They are also working to compile and share information about COVID-19 vaccines, including interviews with experts explaining the importance of vaccination as well as how to sign up to receive the vaccine in their state. And, they are also selling bright red #vaccinepledge bracelets to help accomplish these goals, with 20% of the proceeds to be donated to organizations supporting COVID-19 relief.
- CovidHeroes
The Washington Post has announced that Dan Diamond '98 will join its Health and Science desk as a reporter focused on federal health agencies and leaders. Diamond comes to The Post from Politico where his high-impact reporting has sparked congressional investigations into a top Medicaid official’s lavish spending on consultants and led to the resignation of former health secretary Tom Price. During the pandemic, Dan has broken stories about efforts to shape a $300 million coronavirus advertising campaign, political meddling in the CDC’s most authoritative scientific publication, and promises broken by the federal government to the Marshallese and other Pacific Islanders. Read the full story here.
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Dr. Edward Trusty, Jr. '91 has been named the 33rd head of school at St. Paul's School for Boys. Dr. Trusty joined St. Paul’s School for Boys in July of 2020 as interim head of school.
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Trusty. Read morehere: stpaulsmd.org/boys.
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Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has appointed Erik Atas '97 as a judge on the Baltimore City Circuit Court. Erik has worked with the firm of Zirkin & Schmerling Law since 2013, primarily focusing on criminal defense. His civil practice primarily involves personal injury cases, protection orders and peace orders, and administrative hearings for Motor Vehicle Administration matters. He regularly works with nonprofit drug treatment programs and women’s shelters on a pro bono basis to help people of limited financial means expunge their criminal records. Before joining Zirkin & Schmerling Law, Erik worked as a public defender in Baltimore City for six years, defending clients charged with misdemeanors and traffic offenses in both district and circuit courts. Erik received his B.A. from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and his J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law. Atas was one of three appointments made by Governor Hogan, who said, “I have every confidence that Mr. Atas, Ms. Middleton, and Ms. Dean will continue to be strong advocates for the law and will serve the citizens of Maryland honorably.” Read the full story here.
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Adam Aist '14, an Investment Banking Analyst at M&T Bank, has been named a 2020 Living Classrooms Foundation Rising Star. All under the age of 40, Rising Stars are nominated and then honored for their personal and professional achievements, as well as for their charitable efforts. Read the full story here.
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By all accounts, the past twelve months have been a roller coaster for Cyrus Jones '12. In a two-week span in November 2019, the cornerback and return specialist was released by the Baltimore Ravens, picked up by the Denver Broncos, and admitted to the University of Colorado Hospital, where he would undergo surgery to repair a life-threatening heart defect that had gone undiagnosed for years. Finally, on December 3, 2020, almost a full year after his surgery, doctors gave him the green light to resume football activities. Now, he's ready to get back into the game he loves and to finish his career on his own terms. Read the full story here.
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- Athletic News
When Nick Polydefkis '18, a junior water polo player at George Washington University, made the difficult decision not to go back to GW this year, his parents encouraged him to be "part of the solution" to the pandemic. So, rather than simply continue his studies - which already included research on viruses in the Department of Emergency Medicine - virtually, Nick didn't just get one job. He got three! Nick currently works as a full-time EMT and a transport safety officer at Johns Hopkins, and volunteers his weekend time as an EMT for the Baltimore County Fire Department and at George Washington University EMS. While his work has brought him face-to-face with the harsh reality of this pandemic, Nick has also been witness to a number of inspiring moments including childbirths and life-saving CPR resuscitations. Read the full story here.
- CovidHeroes
New England Patriots Linebacker Brandon Copeland '09 has been named to the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 in Sports List for his efforts on and off the football field. On the field, Brandon is an eight-year NFL veteran. Off the field, he teaches financial literacy at the University of Pennsylvania, operates two real estate companies, and leads a nonprofit organization, Beyond the Basics, that focuses on youth empowerment. Read the full story here.
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Each year Gilman recognizes its most loyal supporters with a festive celebration called Founders' Society Dinner. In addition to honoring these special individuals, this event helps to remind us all why institutions like Gilman are so important in today's complex and ever-evolving world. This year, the pandemic prevented us from bringing together several hundred alumni, parents, and friends in person. But, we didn't want to miss the opportunity to thank these special individuals. So, we invited a trio of remarkable alumni — Victor Abiamiri '03, Stewart Finney '77, and Arif Joshi '94 — to talk on video about their personal experiences, how Gilman impacted their lives, and what lessons they carry with them to this day. Click here to hear, in their words, what it means to “Be Gilman."
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A number of Gilman alumni have been named to Baltimore Mayor-Elect Brandon Scott's transition team. As a member of the Environment & Sustainability Committee, Will Baker '72 will work to protect natural resources. As members of the Housing & Neighborhood Development, Charlie Duff '71 and Khalil Uqdah '06 will work to increase access to affordable housing. As members of the Business, Workforce & Neighborhood Development Committee, Mark Caplan '76 and Cheo Hurley '92 will work to strengthen Baltimore's neighborhoods and businesses. As co-chair and a member of the Fiscal Preparedness Committee, respectively, Mark Kaufman '83 and Doug Schmidt '85 will work to align resources to ensure fiscal stability and innovation. And, as part of the Public Health & Public Safety Committee, Wally Pinkard '69 will help to reimagine public safety and public accountability. Read the full story here.
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Stephon Jackson '80, currently associate head of U.S. Equity and a 13-year veteran of T. Rowe Price's Equity Division, has been named the Head of the newly-formed entity, T. Rowe Price Investment Management. In support of the firm's continued efforts to generate strong investment results for clients, T. Rowe Price will establish T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc. (TRPIM) as a separate U.S.-based SEC-registered investment adviser. The firm hopes that having two distinct investment platforms with independent research teams will allow it to generate new capacity while retaining its scale benefits and positioning the investment teams for continued success on behalf of clients. TRPIM will have its own investment platform and veteran leadership, with more than 100 associates, including at least 85 investment professionals. Read the full story here.
Click here to read about Stephon's plans for his new position and some of the challenges on the horizon for T. Rowe Price in a conversation with Bloomberg Markets’ Annie Massa.
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Garrett Weinstein '14 has developed CareFull, the only peer-to-peer app connecting diners to COVID-safe establishments. CareFull instantly tells you the safety precautions like table distancing, sanitization practices, and seating arrangements including heat lamps and tent installations that restaurants are taking. The app launched in Boston, and will expand to New York, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Learn more and download the app here. Read more.
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Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive end and current Portfolio Manager at Brown Advisory Victor Abiamiri '03 sat down with Dr. T - Arman Taghizadeh '95 - on his popular podcast, The Mindset Experience, to talk about his path to the NFL, what it takes to succeed both on and off the field, and life after football. Listen to the whole episode here.
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