stay in touch with class notes

I started a new job in July of 2022 working with old colleagues at an engineering startup company. I love the environment and the commute as well. It’s great working with old friends doing good stuff to help people.

Sandy (Springside ’69, Hollins ’73) and I will be celebrating our 45th wedding anniversary in August. Our primary residence is in Park City, Utah.

I just won re-election as Maryland State Senator. This four-year term will be my last, and I am not coy about telling people that I will retire in 2026. Anne and I bought a great house in Rehoboth Beach last year, so I will not lack for recreational opportunities when I close up shop in Annapolis in 2026.

Karl Miller is a research scientist for the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) and associate professor in the University of Florida’s Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation.

Members of the class of 1994 caught up for an informal, mini reunion at Tarks in Baltimore County in late October.

David Shapiro and Nick Owsley caught up for lunch in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Than'l Badder ’94 in September 2022.

Jim Nesbitt, died suddenly on August 20, 2022, at Keswick Multi-Care Center where he had been in a long-term care bed since a fall in 2021.

Jake Beverage and John Ward (and their families) enjoyed some time on the water in Nelson, British Columbia in August 2022. Jake and his family recently moved to the Vancouver area.

Peter Bogue was in Hawaii in August 2022 with his family and connected tonight with classmate Mikey de Lara.

Last weekend's mail included the summer edition of Gilman’s alumni magazine, with an “in memoriam” page that painfully brought me up to speed on the passing almost a year ago of Temple Grassi.

Brice Baradel '93, John Kim '94, and Billy Gonzalez '92 caught up at a conference hosted by the Association for Corporate Growth in Montauk, New York, in July 2022.

Members of the class of 1962 caught up for a meal and to share some great old Gilman stories at the Elkridge Club in Baltimore in early June 2022.

Read on for updates on the class of 1953.

Conway Zeigler provided the impetus for a mini-reunion of our class of 1966 for the reunion weekend last November. Several of us gathered at the Valley Inn for lunch.

Last fall, Rick Green reported the arrival of his second grandchild. Rick’s son, Yeardley, and wife Chris, welcomed Thomas Yeardley Green, nicknamed TYG, as in “Tigger the Tiger,” a favorite Winnie the Pooh character. TYG joins big sister, Birdie, now aged 3.  

Charlie Fenwick sends the following update on his seven grandkids...

Gordy Allen and Janice welcomed a fourth (and last) grandchild with the arrival of Norah to son Ben and Megan early in 2021.

Barbara and I, after 27 months of sidestepping COVID, finally fell victim to it in April. Thankfully, Barb’s case was moderate. Mine was more toward the severe end of the spectrum, bringing all of the symptoms we had heard about, except severe respiratory issues.

Retired Judge Ben Legg reports that he and wife Kyle now enjoy the winter months at their place on John’s Island in Vero Beach, Florida, where Kyle managed to become elected president of the island community (a post that Ben likens to being mayor of a small city!)

“Your children, even as adults, continue to occupy a lot of your thoughts and time.” Thus writes Michael Stanton, who along with Maureen, married away daughter Abby last September.

A third grandchild is on the way, due to arrive in mid-May, and Lew is proud of his portable grandparenting capabilities.

Dave Irwin and Kendi are now fully settled into the newly renovated primary home in Bethany Beach, Delaware. Now that the pandemic has waned, Dave has resumed a pattern of weekly commutes back to Towson, where he continues his law practice in association with the Baltimore firm of Kramon & Graham and plays in a weekly tennis match.

Read on for updates from the class of 1979.

In April, Laura and I broke our two-plus years of not flying, by visiting our son/stepson, Alex, in Miami.

Bryson Cook retired at the end of 2021, from his 47-yearslong practice of law at Venable LLP.

Amatsia Spigler is chief executive officer at Hakshiva, a nonprofit organization in Beit Shemesh, Israel, dedicated to the belief that every child deserves a loving, supportive presence in their lives and this presence should have the professional support to really make a difference in that child’s life.

Not yet completely retired from practicing environmental law but time increasingly consumed with service on the board of Ballet Arizona.

Limited report from our ambassador in Central Florida: “I continue to enjoy retirement to the max — I was born to be retired!” Notwithstanding his University of Miami alma mater making it to the NCAA basketball Elite Eight, Ken lamented his “worst bracket of the century.” There is always next year!

Retired to Delaware 12 years ago after running a HomeOwners Service in Baltimore for 35 years.

Judith and Don doing well. Two days before Thanksgiving 2021, his last case was resolved (in client’s favor!) so now fully retired from 52 years of law practice (except for some trustee duties). Well done, Don, and welcome to the next phase.

Hard core retired, and probably totally unemployable and unmanageable at this point; I did, however, have a satisfying academic and business career in computer science and software engineering with the usual highs and lows.

Margie and Charlie still living in Yarmouth, Maine, and Holderness, New Hampshire.

Just back from our snow-bird trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I had the opportunity to drop by our school the other day for a lacrosse game with our 7-year-old granddaughter.

Mainly reading, writing, editing, and walking outdoors in myoid age.

“COVID the first of the year; new hip in January (to match the earlier one on other side), and now the knees are complaining.” Long COVID in February treated with colchicine (usual gout treatment) that helped with no side effects. “Sad when we get to the point that most of what we have to report relates to medical events.”

All the news for me and my family is the pandemic. With age and medical issues putting us at a high risk we have been extra careful ... and have avoided COVID so far.

Sara and Andy continue to enjoy good health “with the usual manageable aging challenges with which we all contend.”

I spend a lot of time chasing the five grandkids, which is great.

Michael Jeffrey is now a novelist still living in Perth, Australia.

Ian Miller continues in his role as chief information officer at the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in New York.

Hey gang! Today we are in Indian Springs, Nevada, (northeast of Las Vegas in the Desert Wildlife National Refuge and due east of Death Valley, California)

Terry Booker is managing partner for Axis Partners in Philadelphia, which specializes in health equity strategy and health industry expertise. Terry’s nephew Thomas Booker ’18 was just drafted by the Houston Texans.

Mike Liebson is now a vice president of marketing at New at Horizon Soft, LLC, focusing on supply chain planning software using machine learning and artificial intelligence in Acton, Massachusetts.

Gary Raab continues in his role as vice president of innovation and business development for Flavor Materials International.

Rick Friedman is still at his off-season home in rural Utah.

I feel a bit of an imposter as I left Gilman in 1970 so never graduated (though I did graduate from Millfield School in England, just!).

After a healthcare investment banking and capital markets career of over 25 years taking me through New York (Salomon), Baltimore (Alex. Brown) and finally Richmond (BB&T), I’ve most recently been working on a couple things, most notably a digital health startup back in Baltimore.

Vanna and I are coming up on 20 years in Richmond. Evidently, our 12th move was the charm.

For the past few years, I’ve been working on a book.

I feel really lucky and grateful as we each fight the aging battle. I am the last Wingard at the family manufacturing business in Baltimore that my father started when our class was in first grade.

Splits time between Bowleys Quarter near Baltimore on the Bay and Ft. Myers Beach, Florida, home.

Retired from Brown Advisory in February and splitting time between Baltimore and Florida.

Retired in 2005 after 40 years in the Army as a full colonel and senior executive Army civilian.

Chris Anderson’s son, Colin, recently found a Gilman 5A & 5B compositions book from 1992. Chris has since digitized the work for those interested.

Charlie Marek is currently reliving the glory days of Roland Park baseball through his son. Go Toppers and Rangers! He’s also working on his soccer skills with his daughter and hopes to understand the game by the end of the year.

Mike Rogers has been busy with work but is glad concerts are finally back. He recently went to see the Orioles play in LA with Evan Bedford, Kwaisi, and Kenny Kang. Word has it they kept all banter to 2022 standards.

David Reahl continues in his role as managing director at USAA Real Estate Company.

Tim Webb recently welcomed Henry James Webb this January. Henry’s older brother (Timmy) and three sisters (Avery, Georgia, and Mason) are doting on him. Mom and Dad are questioning their sanity with five little ones running around…

Darryl Jordan recently graduated from Teachers College with a doctorate in music. He and his wife, Linda, welcomed their fourth child, Gavin, as they all moved to a new home in East Orange, New Jersey. He is still actively involved in music as a vocal director at the FAME school, LaGuardia High School in NYC and a member of the Broadway Inspirational Voices!

Dr. Chris Cebra continues in his role as the department chair for clinical sciences; Glen Pfefferkorn and Morris Wendorf Endowed Professor in Camelid Medicine; Professor - Large Animal Medicine at Oregon State University. 

In the thick of the pandemic, the Gilman Class of ’82 celebrated its 50th reunion in grand style — an occasion “Of Primary Importance,” as the old Lower School newspaper founded by John Schmick’s first class read across the banner.

In the throes of a midlife crisis, Bill Miller has moved to Sarasota, Florida. He plans to keep the family's place in Baltimore for summers and vacations.

With nothing of interest to share personally, I commend Del Schmidt for his service to the Alumni Association. This was his last year on the alumni board. I think he logged more years in this capacity than he did as a 12-year man in his 'student' days.

Vincent Hom is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he serves as an information Technology Specialist for the Smithsonian Institutions.

Hollyday continues in his role as vice president of sales, SecqureOne Inc., which provides cyber security solutions and compliance services while also delivering industry-defining insights and vision to organizations looking to augment and improve their overall cyber security, IT risk, and governance in Norwell, Massachusetts.

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.

When not dating Brazilian models, Geary Stonesifer continues in his role as president and owner of Mrs. Peters Smokehouse, which specializes in smoking local wild fish on open racks with local hardwoods.

Taylor Classen continues in his role as a partner for Delbert Adams Construction Group in Baltimore.

Tom Ahern writes about their active and varied life.

Crawford Parr continues in his role as a commercial pilot based out of Anchorage, Alaska.  

Ben Kim continues in his role as deputy chief counsel at The Walt Disney Company where he is the lead attorney for the Disney media and entertainment distribution and Disney streaming technology teams, covering tech for all Disney brands, including ABC, ABC News, Disney+, ESPN, ESPN+, FreeForm, FX, Hulu, Marvel, National Geographic, and Lucas.

Five Gilman alumni — Gerry Brewster ’75, Eben Eck ’83, John Purnell ’76, John Worthington ’81, and captain George Doub ’82 — teamed up on behalf of the Green Spring Valley Hunt Club (GSVHC) to defeat The Metropolitan Club of Washington, DC 3-2 in a backgammon match on February 10. 

I just had knee replacement surgery and cannot travel. Best wishes to all!

Dr. Bill Heller continues in his role as an orthopedic surgeon with Midland Orthopedic Surgeons in Chicago.

Ross and his wife, Kathleen, have their hands full with teenage triplet boys.

Wallace Simpson is a technical program manager at ServiceNow. Wallace continues with his passion for photography — check out his website wallacesimpsonphotography.com.

Stephan Miller continues in his role as senior director of clinical development at SANIFIT, a biopharmaceutical company focused on treatments for calcification disorders.

Dr. TR Levin continues in his role as a gastroenterologist with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc where he runs the clinical practice of gastroenterology managing a department of 17 physicians and clinical research in cancer screening and implementing large clinical programs. 

Bruce Zukerberg was looking trim and fit at the reunion obviously benefiting from his new life as a retiree.  

Alberto Zapata continues in his role as senior counsel at the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. 

Randy Wilgis is now chief executive officer at Hoowaki, LLC, which specializes in microsurface technologies and friction solutions.

Joe Seivold continues in his role as headmaster of Berkeley Prep, Tampa’s premier college preparatory institution.

Life has been getting back to a semblance of normalcy, with caution where needed.

Wendell Phillips is vice chancellor for external affairs and military relations at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Still avoiding downsizing, John Redwood reports that, like some others, he also continues to work a fair amount, as an independent consultant.

After more than 10 years at the Richards Group in Dallas, Doug Eyring is now creative director with Eyko Creative, his own boutique agency in Dallas.

Dr. Scott Bowerman continues in his role as an orthopaedic surgeon with Rome Orthopaedic Center in Rome, Georgia. Scott focuses mainly on joint replacement of the hip and knee as well as general orthopaedics.

Scott Bortz continues his career as a partner for Tribek Properties in Charlotte, North Carolina, which specializes in ground-up development, property management, brokerage, disposition, and acquisition.

Tom Waxter remains a partner at the law firm of Goodell DeVries concentrating primarily on product liability defense.

Doug Riley has made a full recovery from the brain surgery he had in 2020 to correct an arteriovenous malformation.

I contacted Rhett Waldman before the reunion and he let me know he was unable to attend due to family obligations and the end of Passover.

Dr. Mark Peeler continues as a vascular surgeon with Cardiology Associates in Annapolis, Maryland, and Chester, Maryland.

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.

Wells Obrecht continues in his role as president of Obrecht Commercial Real Estate, working every day with David Knipp.

Nick Kouwenhoven continues his role as executive director for the Academy of Lifelong Learning at University of Maryland Baltimore.

Will Howard is a freelance editor working in Baltimore for clients such as Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Sheridan Journal Services.

David Abrahamson reports that, inspired by a few classmates, who over the years have found happiness in distant locales, last spring, he and his wife bought a second home in a small village less than an hour north of Lisbon.

Jamey Hebb is a senior client solutions executive with Manheim Auctions.

Dr. John Harrison continues practicing medicine as an internist affiliated with the University of Maryland Rehabilitation & Orthopaedic Institute.

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.

Ken Brown is in Baltimore where he is a performing artist — under the performance name “Analysis” — and a writer, minister, bookseller with more than 20 years of experience in transformational education and ministry, dissemination of information and dynamic performing arts. Ken continues as a bookseller at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse.

Nick Brader continues to run NJB Engineering, concentrating in land planning and site feasibility analysis development with extensive experience in site feasibility studies, and civil engineering projects.

Frank Bonsal is now Managing Partner at Bonsal Capital, which invests in pre-seed, seed, and early-stage focused companies that target the future of learning and work. Frank’s son, Frank IV, is a Third Former Class of 2025.

Dirck Bartlett and his wife, Christy, are empty nesters on the Eastern Shore where Dirck continues his work at Ilex Construction.

Chris continues to practice as a urologist with Chesapeake Urology Associates.

Charlie Lang retired and has moved from Miami to Santa Fe. 

Peter Williams continues in his role of director of business development for Baker Roofing.

Jeb continues his role as special deputy attorney general, North Carolina Department of Justice, Consumer Protection Division where he assists seniors who are victims of fraud and files civil actions against businesses and individuals engaged in unfair and deceptive trade practices.

John Sanders continues in his role as manager of international trade for The David J. Joseph Company managing the international ferrous raw materials marketing and procurement actions of Nucor Steel (a Fortune 150 Company) with specialization in the European and MENA regions. John and Kathy recently moved to Daniel Island, South Carolina, in Charleston.  

Bill Rush continues in his role as a client executive with Optum Healthcare Solutions.  

Ransone Price continues in his role as an actuary at Genworth Financial in Richmond, Virginia.  

Jose Maisog continues in his role as senior data scientist for Blue Health Intelligence in Washington, DC.

Dr. Jay Goldstein continues in his role as a lecturer at the University of Maryland where he lectures on the growth, learning, understanding, and application of psychological skills training for sport and exercise and the stress management for life, the biopsychosocial aspects of children in sports and the management of youth fitness, sports and educational programs.

Les Goldsborough continues in his role as director of philanthropic planning at the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Peter Wilson continues in his role as principal and director of business development at Waldon Studio Architects in Baltimore.  

Edwin Villamater continues in his role as chief of the department of anesthesia, Northwest Medical Center in Baltimore and a clinical assistant professor of anesthesia at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Tim Robinson continues in his role as a senior systems engineer at Northrup Grunman. Tim’s son, Talbott, is graduating from UMBC in 2022 and his daughter, Rebecca, attends Columbia.  

Pat O’Brien continues his role as owner of Patrick Reid O’Brien Studio, which specializes in custom art and commercial design.

Tim Naylor continues as president of Naylor Antiques, which advises clients on appraisals and consultations on specific pieces to acquire or sell.

Simon Najar is a purchasing manager at DTLR where he manages the procurement and contract negotiation for goods and services for 85 door national retail operations.  

John Morrel continues in his role as principal at Marshall Craft Associates, a high-quality, technically advanced, solutions-based architectural design firm based in Baltimore. 

Dr. Bill Mathews has retired from his research work at The Johns Hopkins University. He and Michaela are splitting time between their home in Ruxton and Avalon, New Jersey.  

Glenn Lacher is a real estate agent with Long & Foster in Lutherville. At the reunion, Joe Seivold led us in a hearty rendition of “Happy Birthday Lenny Lache” to celebrate Glenn’s 58th!  

Tim Krongard is a partner at Anchor Capital Management Company.

David Knipp continues in his role as vice president at Obrecht Commercial Real Estate working every day with Wells Obrecht.

Tom Hoen continues in his role as senior vice president of growth technologies at Network for Good, which provides simple and smart fundraising software for nonprofit organizations.

David Hess and his wife, Sally, recently bought another house in Hampden.

Mitch Ford continues in his role as senior vice president, financial advisor, and portfolio management director of The Ford Group at Morgan Stanley where he is fortunate to work with his dad and brother Mac ’81.

Van Dorsey continues in his role of general counsel for the Maryland Insurance Administration. Van’s daughter, Julia, is a member of the women’s soccer and lacrosse teams at UNC.

Jim Cooke has left Network Media Partners after 25 years and started Wasitacatisaw LLC, a company committed to building a better catamaran.

Aaron Bryant continues in his role as curator of photography, visual anthropology, and contemporary history at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution.

Don McPherson and his wife, Ann, are thrilled that their former daughter-in-law, Anna (wife of their deceased son, David), and her three children have returned to the Baltimore area after living in Europe for years.

These class notes come on the heels of what was a hugely successful 50th reunion for our class.

My wife, Jane and I are happily celebrating our 56th year of marriage in May.

I am fortunate to split my time 49:51 between Baltimore and Naples, Florida, the latter where my vote counts and my taxes don’t.

Pretty unexciting here, especially with the pandemic. Our daughter and her family moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, so are now 415 miles away instead of 15.

Biggest news for me is retiring from my psychiatric practice of more than 45 years. I am very grateful to have had such a fulfilling career.

Not much to report in the Allan family. Both my wife, Bonnie, and I are retired. Bonnie is very active in Outward Bound and NAMI, the national alliance of the Mentally Ill, and I, along with several relatives, am working with the Baltimore Community Foundation to fund urban gardens in the city.

We have started to get out and about in spite of COVID. Last summer we rented a house in the Bergerac region in SW France for five weeks enjoying sights, food, and friends.

Seeing as I am one of the elder statesmen of our class, I guess it is only fitting that I am in the vanguard to move into a retirement community, Roland Park Place.

Nancy and Fred Kelly are celebrating 46 years of marriage in Savannah in the winter and Boothbay Harbor, Maine, in the summer.

I am still working full time, e.g., defending Duke Energy in antitrust litigation in the western district of North Carolina.

My travel for the last two years has consisted to two or three lunches in Washington, DC (although this is about to change). I am still working albeit from home), still married to the same woman (Karen), still have the same kids (with no new grandkids).

Allison and I, at a mere 27 years, are still in Prince George’s County where the 200-acre farm across the road and down the hill has turned into fields full of McMansions on 1/6-acre lots and the colonial-era road, still only a lane and a half wide when I came here five months after law school, is now a by-passed cul-de-sac in “Country Club Acres” (though we’re free of the burden of “membership” in the homeowners association).

Mike Austin wrote of what has followed a son’s death and a daughter’s move, along with notes from his social media chats with classmates and changes in his work and health regimen.

Laurey Millspaugh sees “a fun pattern here as we all shift our attention to far-flung children and health. Jinks and I are no exception."

Mark Caplan was preparing to be on his way to New Orleans for French Quarter Fest, where “Linda and I hope to spend time with Blazer [Catzen] and Kathy. How things do not change."

Sandy Dugan writes from Wrenshall, Minnesota, that he, too, hopes to come back for our 70th reunion. He has recently started taking guitar lessons to keep up with his grandson, but he finds it to be a very humbling undertaking! But it’s always good to learn something new at any age, I hear!

In that vein, Ron Nelson reports from Fort Myers, Florida, that he and Cynthia are doing well, and he’s looking forward to our 70th class reunion in 2026! How's that for positive thinking?! His son and daughter live nearby “so it couldn’t be better,” he said.

Cooper Graham reported from Baltimore that he and Pat are fine, both children are fine, and they were planning a trip to England in the spring to visit their daughter …. “Boris Johnson, COVID, and Vladimir Putin permitting,” he said. Sounds good to me!

Tom Carroll stays active in Havre de Grace where he and Winnie have lived for many years. His recent activities include restoring an old Skipjack, the “Martha Lewis,” which is an oyster dredge built in 1955. It will soon be sailing again to show school children about the essential part of history on the Chesapeake Bay.

Mike Fisher continues to split his time between his homes in Black Butte Ranch, Oregon, and Rio Verde, Arizona, and he reminded us that he has lived “out West” for more than 60 years! His health is good overall, but he says that bad knees, bad shoulders and cciatica have slowed him down considerably.

Sam Smith says that he is finally seeing the light at the end of his project to identify and catalog the War of 1812 Maryland Participant Burials. All of this data has been sent to the Maryland State Archives and the Maryland Historical Society. He and Judy are doing well and exercising as much as possible,

My life continues to be good, with both of our children and all three grandchildren nearby here in Richmond. Sue and I still visit Bermuda regularly (her original home), and I’m still playing with old cars, including a '49 Ford just like the one I had while at Gilman. Good memories!

Howard Stick reports (via Christmas card) that he and Alyce are doing well. They enjoyed a sunny vacation in Jamaica recently — their first venture out of the U.S. in two years. 

Harry Lord spent a week in a remote region of Yellowstone National Park in January seeking and tracking “remarkable wolf packs reintroduced there nearly two decades ago.”

Another Floridian is Ambler Moss, who reports from Coral Gables that he and Serena are happily settled in a house that they bought in1982, and are fortunate to have two grandchildren nearby. 

Nick Penniman mentioned that a 70th reunion sounds interesting, and that “88 years is achievable.” Let’s hope he’s right for everybody. He lives in Naples, Florida, where he has been for many years. 

Leland James reports from his longtime riverfront home in Irvington, Virginia,that life is good, although a few back and leg problems have curtailed some of his traveling. He has three sons and three granddaughters, all spread out from Colorado to New York.

Bill Zeeveld reports from Hendersonville, North Carolina, that he still enjoys his home office engineering consulting business. His most recent noteworthy activities were all medical-related: successful cataract surgery, minor concussion from a fall on black ice, and COVID infection after three vaccination shots. 

Our youngest graduates high school this year and is headed to Purdue in the fall. We have a family situation that has my wife, Kiki, in Brooklyn at least once a month.

“Laura, Bryan and I just returned to Baltimore from Florida, by way of Woods Hole for Laura’s mom’s funeral,” Charlie wrote, “in the same small, ancient church in which Laura and I were married 42 years ago, this August.

Continuing his reacclimation to life stateside, Arthur Cromwell wrote, “After three years in Woodbridge, Virginia, my wife and I are still readjusting to the ol' USA after almost eight years in Venezuela. No bars on our windows and no 12,500-volt fence around the house — still hard to get used to.”

Phil Scott wrote that he’s “still punching the clock in NYC, but the pandemic has brought an unexpected silver lining in that I was able to work remotely from the Maine coast for a little more than half of the last two years. Now, I’m back to the office, but the summer-in-Maine bug has got me, and Lindsay and I are planning a more permanent address change to our home in Castine next year."

Henry Jenkins wrote that he was “holed up here in Owings Mills for a bit having just had a minor back operation last week performed by Charles Edwards II ’88, which was a complete success. No heavy lifting and no boogying for a few more weeks. Quite a relief after eight months of not being able to stand up straight comfortably finds me in a much better mood.”

At the risk of being considered a bit of an interloper, reading all these responses brought back many memories of my time at Gilman, which ended after ninth grade. Through the years I have occasionally seen many of you (The Maryland Xmas lunch comes to mind), and have enjoyed catching up.

Tina and I are doing great, and about to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. Still working hard, as I have two daughters getting married this year. We couldn’t convince them to get married on the same day. Our oldest daughter is married and lives in San Francisco. They had our first grandchild a year ago. Sure wish they lived closer.

Judy and I traveled to Southern California for a couple of weeks last year to see Lindsey, who moved there in the fall of 2019, a few months prior to the pandemic. From there we spent a few days in the desert, where the temperature rose as high as 114 degrees.

I have not retired either, but am increasingly involved in theater so maybe I should. I am lighting “Rock of Ages” at Annapolis Summer Garden. Then I revert to an on-stage persona playing Mayor Josiah Dobbs in “Bright Star.” As if that is not enough time suck, I am now on the Annapolis Transportation Board. So, I am most definitely not a man of leisure!

Sandy Watkins broke his long silence and sent an interesting report on his life in Annapolis! He is a retired physician (hematology/oncology) after 49 years of practice. He and Gail have a son and a daughter, and five grandchildren. He currently runs a farm in Rock Hall, Maryland, where he hunts, fishes, and runs his retriever. What a life!

I continue getting bent out of shape once or twice a week in yoga class, training and participating in volunteer mediation, and taking part in a couple other nonprofit activities culled from what was once a longer list of potential post-retirement pursuits.

The sad news on my end is that my mother passed away last week. The happy news is that my wife, Pam, and I sold our house in Dallas last year — after spending the past 39 years as transplanted Texans — and are now back on the east coast full time. 

Full retirement is not in the plans any time soon, as there are bills still to be paid in California. We got a break last week when gas prices fell to a bargain $5.10 per gallon!

Suber Huang provided an update on worldwide and national pandemic statistics, both test-positive cases and deaths, and told of his son’s experience, in a location hit hard by the illness from the onset.

Frank Rosenberg wrote concisely of loss, love, and family projects.

I anticipate working for about another two years. I think the latest I will work is June 2024, maybe an earlier departure. Jan reminds me each day that she goes out to play golf that I could be doing that, too!

Andy deMuth thanked “everyone for making our 45th giving effort and reunion another success. When we get back on campus, I don’t feel any older."

Dixon and Jan “celebrate 37 years in June, and she didn’t ditch me during the pandemic. We [also] became vegan when COVID hit, and it has been great for our health. (Truth be told, we are not hard-core, and when we go out, we happily eat whatever is served.)”

Joe Healey wrote from New Vernon, New Jersey, where he was on safari from his home at the Maryknoll Society in Nairobi, Kenya.

Polly and I are starting to scale back our formal work commitments without fully embracing the ‘R’ word, which somehow doesn’t describe what we hope the future looks like when we are not working full time. We’re hoping to downsize to a smaller space sometime soon, but the prospects of decluttering are rather overwhelming!

Fritz Baukhages continues to split his time between his home in Luray, Virginia, and his condominium in Southern Pines, N.C., where he and Ann have wintered for many years. " Not much going on except golf and seeing doctors," he said. But it sure beats the alternative!

Jim Burgunder wrote from Switzerland of “splitting our time between our place in Rheinfelden, currently being renovated, and our place in the mountains next to a school which our sons attended. Anna is now entering her final year at Deloitte before her mandatory age 60 retirement."

Anita and I are both well and still in the working world. While I have no plans to retire, I would have to say that, on any day, I’m one really crappy week from retirement.

I’m alive and well in Philly. One more year of police work, then I’m hanging up my handcuff key. I recently had dinner with Chris Lambert and his wife. They were in Philly for the weekend. Can’t wait to get back to Baltimore, I need a real crab cake.

As part of our 45th Reunion celebration, members of the Class of 1977 got together for some golf at Mount Pleasant and some grub at Das Bierhalle on the Friday of Alumni Weekend.

Susie and I have a few big events ahead. Our son, Will, is getting married in Colorado in July. At age 45, he is not one to rush into things! His bride, Carly, is a gem, and we are immensely happy for both of them. In September, Susie and I will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary in Maine. Our daughter, Jenny, had been invited to ski at the Special Olympics World Winter Games (not to be confused with Paralympics) last January in Kazan, Russia.

Randi and I are still raising our two grandsons (ages 18 and 15) and have been doing so for nearly eight years.

Looking back over the sequestered time of the pandemic, I’ve done a lot of reading — history, biography, fiction…and more mysteries than I care to admit.

Greetings from Rome, Italy. This year, believe it or not, marks my 37th here in Rome, which may be my last since Yasuko and I are planning to return to the States at the end of this year or in 2023, depending on how things go.

2020 and 2021 will go down in our collective history as either lost years or pivotal ones.

I miss seeing Ritchie Evans and classmates at our bi-monthly class lunches that he used to organize. I am attending lacrosse games at Archbishop Curley’s (Friars) as Wilson IV plays Crease attack there and looks forward to football in the fall.

I’m still on my journey of recovery from Fran’s death last April, helped by numerous friends here and elsewhere.

Jeff informs us that he does “not have much to say about what I did this year, but some nice things happened to my daughter, Caroline Miller Solomon.”

I am hunkered down here in HK thinking about how to deal with the CCP and the local government.

My wife, Hailley, and I have a beautiful 1-year-old daughter, Diana.

McKee Lundberg receives this year’s “shortest but sweetest” award.

I am living in Columbus, Ohio, with my wife, Brittany, and our 7-month-old son, Emmett.

Bert Keidel reports that he is “still waiting for final publication of my book on China (the publisher now says March).

I am excited to say that this past year, my wife, Noémie, and I, had our second daughter.

Eighty is the iconic age I never thought I would reach. I have looked forward to the “80s” experience.

Bill Anderson tells us from sunny Florida, that he wished he had something exciting to report “but I don't.”

Here’s my update, with dubious personal health news up front, as it is for most of us at this stage. After a heart event in June 2021, good doctors gave me two stents, and they added a pacemaker last November.

Ski season ended as of April 24 in Aspen, with a bit of new snow but not-so-great weather for the final day.

George Sourlis recently moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he continues to practice dentistry and has partnered in a local private practice.

Brian Lyles was unable to attend but says he has been keeping busy with marketing and internal corporate communications projects at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other government agencies.

Rick Bowie was recently hired as offensive coordinator for the Valdosta State Blazers. Valdosta State is aptly nicknamed TitleTown for their Division II national football championships in 2004, 2007, 2012, and 2018.

Will is in his seventh year of working for Linkwell Health and recently promoted to VP of client engagement.

Paul Hazlehurst was the best dressed at the lunch. All those reading this, please get up off the floor.

Danny Johnson M.D., is moving back to Baltimore this summer for a fellowship in orthopedic trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. 

Jason Frankel qualified for the Ironman World Championship in which he competed on May 7, 2022 in St. George, Utah.

Paul Danko has now been married for over a year and is the Brady Bunch plus one. I see Paul often at the golf course and he is doing well.

Sam Frank is owner and founding partner of Four Twelve Roofing, which was named the fastest growing company in Baltimore by the Baltimore Business Journal.

Keith Keel is enjoying being Pop Pop. I hope he will be able to make the next lunch.

Lives in San Francisco with his wife, Haesun. He recently joined a startup fintech company named Ness as their head of credit.

Brendan and his wife, Heather, moved to Marietta, Georgia, in July 2021 (suburb of Atlanta and her hometown) and welcomed their first child, a girl named Emerson, in April.

Matt Holman and wife Kelsi welcomed a little girl into the world.

I was recently promoted to Vice President of Sales for Tanteo Tequila — an ultra-premium craft tequila brand that shares distillery ownership with the agave farmers themselves.

Our iconic English teacher and drama director A. J. “Jerry” Downs, age 97 and a half, is here in another section of the Roland Park Place retirement community where I live, and we visit. 

Had a really great random virtual encounter with a classmate.

Jeff Salkin did make the lunch and told me his daughter moved to London and, on a recent visit, he was able to connect with Alan Livsey. He was happy to report Alan is doing well.

My wife, the fabulous Sandy Dodson, and I are still living in Federal Hill (read South Baltimore) not far from where I grew up in Locust Point.

All good with the O’Sheas. Our three adult children are finding their ways, the oldest Andrew in Philadelphia with wife Hannah and grandchild George. Middle child, daughter Tori has evolved from a teacher/coach to a finance/investment professional and seems to be on a good path personally and professionally here in Richmond, Virginia. Youngest son Riley is also in Richmond, will wed in June.

I have just celebrated, if that applies, my 80th birthday, impossible that we are getting to that age but it is happening. My activities include working at Churchill Downs in the capacity of a seasonal employee since 2002, wonderful job and nice coworkers.

I’ve now been retired for 25 months. I had originally planned to work until next year, but decided to let my grandmother have the title; she worked until she was 81.

Katie and I too are empty nesters and living near Gilman, as you will find out if you can attend our reunion.

Senescing gently in a house built 350 or so years ago, in the middle of an estate bought from a family who'd owned it for 450 or so years — since the time of the English Civil War — looking out over relatively unspoilt North Norfolk, UK, farmland/countryside...

Judy and I now are permanent residents of New Hampshire, but still spend time at our house in Maryland, for which I seem to have taken on the role of caretaker, having decided to hold on to it for our son John and his wife, Stacey, who live in Vermont.

We are empty nesters in our same ’70s house tucked in Chapel Hill woods … lately rebuilding window sills with Bondo and replacing chunks of siding. We are basically borrowing this place from the bugs and moss that really own it.

No, I have not had any kids lately, but Debbie and I do have a couple of godchildren we see regularly.

The Lundvalls are doing OK. Both kids are in Colorado.

A couple of years ago I joined TAG Video Systems, a media technology company based in Tel Aviv as their Chief Strategy and Cloud Officer.

My wife, Christine, and I both retired last year and we are still trying to figure out the right cadence for our daily lives (most of my ‘figuring’ takes place on the golf course). We live about 30 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina, in the town of Denver, which is on Lake Norman.

My wife, Chadijah, and I are preparing to celebrate 40 years of marriage this coming June. We are still here, near Baltimore.

Susan and I are doing well. We were fortunate enough to have all four children, their significant others, and our granddaughter with us in Florida for the Christmas holidays.

My wife, Kate, and I are marking 20 years in Kensington, Maryland, just north of the Washington DC line. COVID saw our two daughters (ages 20 and 23) living with us. Both are well and thriving.

Jeff and I are enjoying being back in the LA area. We found a place in La Cañada Flintridge, a town next to Pasadena. Our boys are high school seniors. Jacob will be going to Caltech in the fall, and Scott will be going to UC Berkeley.

My family is doing well. My oldest is working in the ER at St Joe’s. My middle daughter is finishing her junior year at Coastal Carolina. My son is finishing his junior year in high school and has straight As.

I've been married to my college sweetheart for 38 years. My daughter is married and is a surgeon and researcher in NYC. My son lives in Brooklyn Heights, works for Big Tech, and enjoys running and travel.

Currently my mom (102 years old) is in hospice, we are all on standby alert, expecting the inevitable outcome, and trying to conduct normal day-to-day routines.

On April 22, 2022 Randy Cockey, Ted Knowles, Karl Mech, and I attended the Gilman Forever luncheon at the School.

It has been nice having things get back to a bit of more normalcy in NYC — going out to restaurants, concerts, plays, etc. (at least when the COVID rates have been low).

As for me, no COVID – yet (May 1) and still adjusting to life after losing Evie after 68 of dating and marriage. Thirty-four years ago we sold our four-story Tudor and bought what she called our “wheelchair house,” which it is.

Carlton Seitz reported that his heart is ticking in a way that makes his doctors happy after some trouble in September of 2020.

Frank Loweree reports that the past two years have been among the best of his life despite the pandemic.

Dick Fryberger may be the most chilled out of all. He reported (in April) that he and Nancy were ready to leave their assisted/independent living digs in, I believe, Cambridge and join their friends and neighbors in beautiful Chocorua, New Hampshire.

Larry Wagner walks with a cane, but still gets to his boat so he can head out into the Gulf of Mexico to catch whatever is biting.

Scott Sullivan, who is also the corresponding secretary for the Yale class of 1958, reports that he stays pretty much close to home.

Greg Friedman is already transitioning into a more peaceful chapter of his life. He and his wife, Meg, are getting ready to send their youngest off to college.

Matt Horwitz is still loving his return to Baltimore. Like many of us, he’s approaching the big “Five Oh,” and he’ll do so in style with Jen, his wife of five years.

Work is going gangbusters at Southway Builders. We were just honored with a Project of the Year award for a City affordable housing building, and we were just listed #7 on the Baltimore Business Journal’s list of contractors in Baltimore with the most work in the city.

On behalf of the Class of 1974, I am proud to congratulate our classmate Andrew M. Brooks as the incoming President of the Board of Trustees of Gilman School.

Peter Bowe writes he and Barbara have moved from the Baltimore Inner Harbor to Annapolis on the water, which should provide inspiration for him as publisher of DredgeWire.

Doug Nelson and Clinton Daly became grandfathers again to a baby boy, John Riggs Nelson. Clinton continues as President of the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Center for History & Culture.

Andrew Felser reports he has unretired as an attorney, and moonlights acting as a film noir police detective in “The Interrogators.”

Jock Whittlesey and wife Monique are living in a book-filled apartment in Jupiter, Florida, where they enjoy an ocean swim or a beach walk nearly every day.

He’s very appreciative of a great life with his wife and kids in northern Virginia and references the Joe Walsh song, “Life’s Been Good”: “I can't complain but sometimes I still do.”

Gary Carr says he isn’t doing much but breaking his back carrying pavers to repave their walk. He says he misses the Classes of ’54 and ’55 lunches that Tom Swindell of ’55 put together for many years at the Valley Inn and then the L'Hirondelle Club.

He says the “ponzi scheme” perpetrated by the owners and contractors has been going on virtually non-stop since he moved in more than 40 years ago.

Katie and I continue to work for Metro Nashville Public Schools. I am coordinating a Teacher Leadership Institute focused on equitable teaching, collective efficacy, and the affirmation and sustainability of community cultural wealth.

Stuart Cherry is spending lots of time watching his sons play travel baseball.

Doug Kaufman, Greg Friedman, Eric David, and a couple other friends are heading to Asheville, North Carolina, for a collective birthday party in late September!

Jack took advantage of a two-year shutdown by completely renovating and restoring a 200-year-old farmhouse in the Val Ferret of Switzerland.

David Boyd is a veterinarian living in Virginia with his wife, Carrie, and three children.

Chaz Howard remains the University Chaplain at the University of Pennsylvania and VP for Social Equity and Community. He lives in Philly with his wife and two daughters.

Noah Gallico continues to work at NBCUniversal and live in LA with his wife, Sarah, and their two boys.

Gus Lewis reports that he and wife, Debby, are vertical “most of the tome.” They were able to travel to Florida this winter and are planning a river cruise in Europe this Summer.He recently attended the class reunion dinner with Eddie Brown and Sam Hopkins.

John Raiti is still in Seattle, where he has two children and teaches in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Washington.

Kevin Frank remains in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Rebecca, and their daughter, Elanor (3). Kevin is an attorney for Atmos Energy and lectures on energy topics at UT-Dallas’s business school.

Tommy Knowles continues his work at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, where they recently launched an amazing new deep sea exhibition. Tommy lives near there with his wife Meghan and their daughter, Maisie (5).

Evan Kreitzer remains in the mortgage business and lives in Owings Mills with his wife, Keren, and their two boys and three dogs. He spends his evenings and weekends as a car service for the boys’ club soccer and lacrosse practices/games.

John Boyle lives in Columbia with his wife, Tara, and son, Johnny.

Jason Yang remains a butcher in New York City, but changed companies last year to Ends Meat, where his team puts out some amazing stuff that I have been lucky enough to enjoy with Jason and his wife, Lizzy, at their home in Brooklyn.

Jason Mersey started a new position at Davidson Kempner, building out a new team.

Brett Brandau, who started working for SMBC (a large Japanese bank) to launch a consumer bank in the U.S., is moving with his wife (Jen), son (Turner), and daughter (Piper) to Orlando, Florida to enjoy the sunshine and be able to go water skiing year-round.

Sean Kiernan recently switched sports agencies to Athletes First, which is the biggest agency in the NFL.

Ross and wife Holly will be very busy this spring with the National Steeplechase races in Maryland this April, as Ross continues as an official and organizer.

Dave Emala has welcomed three grandchildren into the world, which includes a set of identical twin boys, Hunter and Finney.

Henry Blue writes that he is practicing for upcoming golf tournaments in North Carolina, Virginia, and New York, culminating in an International match this October in Canada, the Devonshire Cup.

Doug Nelson and Clinton Daly became grandfathers again to a baby boy, John Riggs Nelson. Clinton continues as President of the Board of Trustees for the Maryland Center for History & Culture.

David Seiler continues working in Baltimore for a specialty manufacturing company and has resized his role to Senior Director.

Dave Rich writes that he and Madelyn continue to carve out a happy existence in Homeland, a neighborhood a brisk walk from the Gilman campus

Jim Vandenberg continues playing golf in retirement and traveling between Richmond and Nags Head.

Mike Fisher writes that he and Honey are enjoying retirement in Delaware and spending time with their four grandchildren.

Mark Stamidis and wife Kathy welcomed their little girl, Elliana Zoe, in September 2021.

Jeff Feige’s company has come out of stealth mode, publicly announcing its existence in January 2022.

Will Spencer and family — wife Katie, son Alex (10), and daughter Charlotte (3) — continue to reside in Tabernacle, New Jersey.

Sofía and I have been honing our non-technology-based skills, in my case welding and distilling, so that even after the economy crumbles we’ll be comfortable.

Jon lives in Mt. Washington with his wife, Sarah (BMS, ’98), son Ben (Gilman ’24), daughter Emma (BMS, ’27), and two golden retrievers, Dory and Daisy.

Jonathan Markham and crew are larger in number since Jon’s previous update. Anna (now 4) is hanging well with older sibs, James (10) and Alexandra (13).

Back in April, Tom twirled real fancy like for the 2022 Alzheimer’s Association Memory Ball Dancing Stars! Tom was among the featured performers, each dancer selected for their leadership and commitment to the fight against memory-related diseases.

My life has become some strange combination of Groundhog Day and a Progressive Insurance commercial. Consistency can’t be all bad – Cal Ripken rode it all the way to the Hall of Fame.

Alan Fleischmann has begun traveling again now that the shadows of the pandemic are lifting. Things are going really well with his firm Laurel Strategies. His hobby has become among SiriusXM’s most popular radio shows: “Leadership Matters.”

After living on Taplow Road for 70 years, Ted Rugemer and Virginia are happily settled in at Broadmead.

David Cook was one of the first to support Billy’s “Bring Johnny Cash to Poland” campaign. When he is not golfing or fishing, David has been winning duckpin bowling tournaments.

After two false starts due to COVID restrictions, we managed to pull off the wedding of my youngest daughter, Charlotte. She married one of her Washington & Lee classmates, Alex Newell. We have eight grandchildren: two in Sarasota; three in Baltimore; and three in Bath, England.

My new hobby has been my new podcast, “It’s the Climb,” where I either interview adventurers on unbelievable mountains or people who have overcome tough obstacles, climbing huge figurative mountains.

Daughter and fiancé relocated to Dallas area in January. I started a new position at Queens U of Charlotte and should close on a house in the first half of May. CT house should hopefully be sold by then.

I have this recurring COVID-times dream that I am sitting at a table in some new restaurant Tony Foreman built with my husband, John, and Felipe Albuquerque and his wife and children. We are drinking champagne and eating snails and birds and organs, and the deliciousness just keeps coming. Then I wake up. And it is really happening.

All is well with me. Michelle and I are having a blast raising Lily, who is now 3. My oldest, Henry, is a CPA and lives in Federal Hill. Caroline is a freshman at Ole Miss, and Georgia is a sophomore at McDonogh. I run into many of our classmates on a pretty regular basis, and am still at Franklin Templeton, which used to be Legg Mason.

Bob Dobbin reports his children and grandchildren are all healthy. The biggest change in his household has been the arrival of a 2-month-old puppy named Mrs. Brown.

Bob Dyer, while usually in town, enjoys a significant amount of travel. It includes visits to his place by the Choptank on the Eastern Shore as well as accompanying Paige on her business trips to high end destinations around the U.S. and occasionally beyond.

Carol and Tom Farley’s grandkids from San Diego spent a week with them in Baltimore during a week off from school, albeit without their mother who teaches Spanish there in another school district. 

John Zink retired from his law practice in late 2019, and suspects that being outside taking a lot of walks has served his good health.

Bill Paternotte, who admits having begun to “ratchet back” his investment career, has had more time to enjoy golf, hiking, and cross country skiing. His fingers are crossed that planned visits to Zimbabwe and Dubai will happen this summer.

Tom continues to correspond with classmates regarding a plethora of information about our class.

All is well. Both kids are in NYC and ‘off the payroll.’ We find ourselves going there what seems like once a month.

Writing this as I just watched Coach K’s hopes for a fairytale career-end come to a grinding halt. I care because a) sports fairytales are worth cheering for (but not betting on) and b) I have a junior at Duke. One other daughter is in college at Wake Forest and my twins are juniors in high school.

Yours truly, in addition to a variety of daily fitness programs going back nearly four decades, took advantage of COVID seclusion by writing my memoir, which is nearly complete and should be in print within a year.

George Scarlett continues teaching at Tufts and also spends increasing time contributing to environmental education.

I am certain I am at the highest levels of the good life, and for that I am thankful every day.

Robin Baker also has a new granddaughter living five minutes from him and Mary. Robin still works with MetraMetric, which he describes as a “great time.”

Nick Schloeder coached the Gilman JV baseball squad last spring. The team included the sophomore son of Teddy Winstead, who has been back on the Gilman sidelines with his camera, snapping photos of football and baseball.

Not much new, finished my walnut spice box, added a turntable and engine house to my train layout, I still nurse along a few orchids as well as roses and dahlias in the summer. Had a family vacation in New Hampshire last summer and got back to Canada for two weeks.

Walker Jones’s daughter recently finished her first year at Grinnell College and his son finished his junior year at St. Mark’s School. In Boston, Walker sees Mitch (Caplan) Rock, Richard Ginsberg, and Dennis McCoy ’84.

All is steady with Jimmy Rouse. He continues to spend three hours in the morning working to improve Baltimore’s public transit with the nonprofit Transit Choices.

Ben Miller and his family moved to London from Hong Kong in 2014. “I attended two wonderful Gilman alumni gatherings in town a few years ago,” he writes. “I hope they do more.”

Ward Coe still practices law, much of it pro bono for worthy causes, at an office in a downtown building that COVID rendered sparsely populated and relatively safe.

Ed Supplee reported, “Feeling like I’ve been living in a cave for two years.” COVID concerns reduced Ed and Sally’s typically extensive travels to a trip to Hawaii, one to Asheville, North Carolina, and a few spots in their home state of California. Ed said his granddaughter Piper is searching for an acting career in Los Angeles.

The pandemic forced Tom Washburn to “retire” from his wine distribution business. He’s been purchasing and renovating rental properties around Baltimore, including a row house in Hampden. “It’s been fun and challenging because of high housing prices, supply constraints, and crazy inflation, among other things,” he writes.

Joe Jennings’s daughter, Alexia, is headed to Stevenson University in the fall.

Bob Landon is living in a small village in Spain (pop: 400) and growing his own vegetables.

Kurt Schultheis got married in August. “Last year we fled the suburbs and moved to Fells Point,” he writes. “I’m on Baltimore Street, two blocks from where Bob Landon’s dad used to live."

Father Raymond Harris serves as a consultant to the National Black Catholic Congress, which represents African American Roman Catholics and affiliated organizations.

Billy Logue has been delivering babies in Łódź, Poland. After earning his medical degree last year in Łódź, he has been sampling various medical specialties. In his spare time, Billy has been developing plans to open Poland’s first country music bar.

I would first like to acknowledge and thank my predecessor, Howie Baetjer, for 50 years of class notes. I seriously doubt that I will be doing this for the next 50 years. He covered our class well, and his notes were always informative. Many of us are now retired and are grandparents, so yes, Howie, this was a good time to retire from the newsroom.

Having retired three years ago from the practice of law, I now focus on running the Sheridan Foundation and pursuing my history interests, particularly the American Civil War.

Ted Leach is now “fully retired” after eight years of teaching at Quinnipiac’s Frank H. Netter School of Medicine. He now looks forward to more time with family. 

I am still working as an attorney for the California Labor Commissioner, helping workers get paid. I just finished a four weekend run in the musical “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” at the Woodland Opera House, a state historic park near my home in Davis. My Gilman Latin came in handy for a number of the songs.

Because of his empty nest, Ken Kang recently sold his home in Vienna, Virginia, and moved back to North Bethesda, Maryland. “I’m still working at the IMF, focusing this time on the macro impact of digital money and global policies to address the pandemic,” he writes.

Drawing on his experience with digital media, Steve Comfort has launched a new venture called GTM Tech Consulting. During ski race season, he can be found on the slopes cheering his daughter.

Ted Gans has found a new lady companion, Valerie Wilson, and has found that there is life after 80, and he has been seeing and traveling extensively with Valerie. They both extend best wishes to the class of ’59.

Charlie Offutt who spends a long winter in Naples, Florida, and spends some time working with the city government, offers this successful effort of his and a significant change with the City Council.

Herb Tinley and Betty have settled in nicely to their new home in Huntsville, Texas, where they are close to her son, after many years in Florida near Ft. Myers.

Frank Pine and his wife, Lorraine, have spent the winter in Baltimore at the Village of Cross Keys. They will spend the summer in the Adirondacks, returning to Baltimore in October.

Rick Uhlig has a new lady in his life, Midge Menton, whom he has been seeing since last year. Rick’s wife, Susan, passed away in 2020 after a serious stroke in 2018, and Midge’s husband, John, passed away six years ago. Rick and Midge enjoy their time and travels together, most recently a two-week trip to Florida.

Marsha and John Ramsay have enjoyed several nice trips in the last year after the relaxing of travel limits.

Bill Spencer-Strong and spouse Sylvia went on a fantastic eight-day journey through the Holy Land in early April.

Bonnie and Chip Markell have enjoyed a year, though somewhat restrained by COVID, marked by frequent visits with family and eight grandkids, the renewal of our annual spring visit to Captiva after missing 2020, our annual summer visit with family to Ocean City, and opportunities to meet with friends. We wish all of ’59 the best of 2022.

Unfortunately, we lost a classmate, Ridge Warfield, in October 2021.

Walter Reuben sent a note that he is doing fine and is very busy with his business endeavors, walterfilm.com. It is good to hear from him even in short notes.

Frank Morgan announced last June his opening of a new law office in the fields of trademark, copyright, business, and entertainment.

Ormond Hammond is still in Hawaii enjoying the never ending summer. He joined us via Zoom at our 60th reunion dinner and his Facebook page has posts of wonderful Hawaiian scenes.

COVID dominated most of our family’s concerns. Children and grandchildren had the infection, Katie and I were fully vaccinated and did not. I completed therapy for prostate cancer that appears to have been successful.

Last December, our daughter, Alexandra, was married at the Hitchin Post during “Cowboy Christmas” in Las Vegas. She now owns two veterinary practices. My son, Forrest, continues at his senior position in information technology at The University of Virginia.

T Tall is still very active in and around the Middlebury, Vermont, area. The pandemic slowed things down for him as they did for all of us, but things are starting to move again.

Another year of COVID has been a challenge. Zoom calls, masks, a change to work and recreation, but a time of good health for our family. Our four adult kids and seven grandchildren have all had another year of well-being.

Mary and I are spending the month of March and early April in Amelia Island, Florida. Oldest grandson, Jack, finishing up his freshman year at the University of Vermont. Looking forward to the resumption of our 1961 class dinners!

One more year flying by much too quickly. We continued to stay home, as we were ‘lucky’ enough to live in a high COVID-rate county.

This June, I will be celebrating two granddaughters’ graduation from RPCS! Emma (Catherine’s oldest) as a senior going to Connecticut College, and Courtney (Tammy’s oldest) from Lower School to Middle School at RPCS. Also in June, my youngest daughter, Sarah, turns 40! Sally Ridgely and I continue to “pound the pavement” while walking three to four miles daily, usually six times a week. Good health and happy times to all!

Carol and I spent a great week in November 2021 in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada watching 45+ polar bears. As part of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project, helped staff the New Jersey Legislative Apportionment Commission which adopted the first BIPARTISAN legislative map in its history.

Ed Muhlenfeld died August 29, 2021. He was a devoted Gilman graduate. After graduating from Princeton and receiving his master’s from Georgetown, he served as a captain in the Army in Vietnam where he earned the Bronze Star.

Henry Hopkins is still spending time in Florida, Maryland, and Vermont. He was in town enough to host our Friday evening dinner on our 60th Reunion weekend.

Bill Hardy and wife Lin are settling into their new home at Broadmead, a CCRC in Hunt Valley, Maryland. It has been a good change and a chance to make many new friends.

Not much to report. We are back in Vero Beach for the winter after a hiatus last year because of the pandemic. This is a good winter to be out of Maine. The family is all fine. I will refrain from bragging about our two daughters and grandchildren. My tennis game will be a work in progress until the end.

Since I’m retired and living in a CCRC, there’s nothing earthshaking for me to report. I still do a little church work, and we get to our second home at The Sea Ranch (north Sonoma coast) when we can. Over the next year or so we have trips planned to Scandinavia, the Great Lakes and Japan and hope it will be possible to have these adventures.

Steve Cordi reports that Carl Cummings and Elaine and Rick Born have helped him resuscitate his long-dormant bridge-playing skills, and he finds himself in demand as a regular substitute for various octogenarian bridge groups. His wife, Marque, also says he is still dealing on Ebay.

Rick Born didn’t send any notes in, but he and Elaine manage to keep busy with family and friends. They are regular participants in our Grumpies dinners (when we have them). This past fall they managed a land trip to Italy. Their wine tasting group has just restarted in April.

Carl Cummings had to deal with the unpleasant task of closing his parish’s school, which became unsustainable due to the pandemic. He still had time to shepherd Steve Cordi in his bridge playing. 

Pope Barrow protests that he has nothing of any importance to report and yet he says he is still playing pickleball, swimming, dancing to old time rock and roll, racing his sailboat, growing veggies, and watching grandkids ride horses and play hockey.

We’ll miss the perpetual smile of Chuck Gomer, who died December 21 at his home in Aquia Harbor, Virginia.

It’s nice to see that Sam Hopkins and wife, Genya, are continuing to enjoy good health and enjoying life. They continue to live in Roland Park and play tennis on a weekly basis.

Despite a few mild impairments and limitations from a stroke I suffered nearly four years ago, I’m still able to enjoy the important things in my life. I have a wife and family, who remain healthy and vibrant, and friends who have meant so much through the isolation created by COVID.

Tom Andrew is retired in Seattle doing what he wants and enjoying time for seeing his grandkids.

Tim and Pam Callard have retired to North Hampton, Massachusetts, to be near family, including four grandkids.

It is hard to believe but we have turned the corner. We have become those old guys we never thought we would be.

John Fishman has for many years been a chaplain in the VA hospital near his home in California. He continues to inspire us all with his weekly Instagram posting where he shares his personal experiences of the week, provides his own commentary of the current state of world affairs, shares his favorite quote of the week and caps it all off with a l’chaim (a toast) with his favorite “spirit” selection.

Gilby and his family are in Baltimore where Gilby enjoys his change of career from army ranger and professional firefighter to clinical social worker at the Baltimore VA Medical Center. He enjoys hiking with his boys and helping them learn a little bit about his own childhood.

Chang Oh is getting ready to celebrate his 18th anniversary with his wife, Erin. They have two children who will both be in high school next year in Howard County.

If you have a chance please google our classmate, Matt Riggs, and read the beautiful story of his kindness and empathy for a neighbor of his in need.

Mac Plant is a happy resident at Blakehurst.

Tommy Swindell is a happy resident at Blakehurst.

Bev Compton reports that he fell at home and broke his pelvis, which he was operated on. Soon he will have a hip replacement.

Charlie Cole is now domiciled in Florida but returns to their house in Baltimore County in the spring. He and Barty enjoy croquet and are often Hillsboro Club champions.

Things have returned to normal and we have resumed our trips to Florida and New Hampshire. We are also going on a cruise on the Great Lakes in the summer.

Walter Birge writes that life in the Concord area is quiet but stable. “Susan keeps me on the straight and narrow, and, happily, our son, Jesse, lives near by. Serving on a town committee and as a corporate for our local hospital gives me a sense of worth.” 

I've been busy mostly in the theater — my production of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” ran at Spotlighters on St. Paul Street in January and February, and my production of “Twelfth Night” opens this coming fall (so I’m already working on it). “If music be the food of love, play on!”

Steve Thomas is still working every day at Thomas & Libowitz, P.A. and still living in the house he and Audrey built on Hillstead Drive.

Checking in also is Tom Webster, hoping that all in the class are enjoying good health during all the craziness. Tom is playing golf two to three times a week and traveling to the beach house as often as possible.

Dawson Farber just wasn’t satisfied with having sold his marina business in 2016 and being retired, so he purchased Cape Cod Colonial Tables in Chatham.

Jack Turnbull has been on the road, at least as much as the pandemic allows, visiting the Biltmore in Asheville in all its Christmas glory and also checked out the National Gingerbread Competition at the Grove Park Inn.

Fred Whelan, says that it has been a quiet year, with reading, music and a new grandchild (#12)! Fred wonders if, with the wars, politics, and the environment, what life will be like for his latest grandchild, and indeed for all our grandchildren.

Clay Primrose, our class expat, says all is well in San Miguel (de Allende, Mexico). Clay wrapped up a two-year stint as the chief people officer for Nectar Cannabis (largest cannabis outfit in Oregon), while finishing their dream house in San Miguel.

I received some nice news from our part-time classmate, Butch Khoury, a few days ago. On the day I received his news, he was to be married to Eberly Barnes in his home town of Del Mar, California.

My wife, Emily, and I just celebrated our baby’s first birthday on March 27. Our daughter, Ella, is keeping me plenty busy as is Columbia Business School where I am pursuing my MBA in their executive program.

To no one’s surprise I pursued a career in politics. Met my wife on Bernie in ’16. More recently I was Andrew Yang’s National Organizing Director and then had a contract helping Hollywood celebrities use their social media effectively for the election.

While dodging tornadoes in Alabama, Tinsley Van Durand, or TVD for short, reports his daughter, Parker, 25, is getting married in June and moving to Nashville, which seems to be a popular spot for people her age.

For the past five years I’ve been focused on renovations of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, including the past 18 months as the on-site architect.

Erik Atas and his wife welcomed their first child, Jason, into the world over the holiday season. It was a fun way to end Erik’s first year as a judge in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. 

Jim Gieske and Judi have maintained a high level of health and have been able to keep up with family living in the area. Although their zest for travel has been limited, they were able to take an unforgettable trip to the Galapagos islands.

Millard Firebaugh seems to have lots of time and opportunity to spend with his family in the DC area. Health-wise, things seem to be doing well. A big piece of news is that two of his four grandchildren have just gotten their driver’s licenses.

Things are good in the Neumann household and we are enjoying our empty-nesterhood. Our oldest, Paul ’13 is getting married in June to the girl he took to his junior prom. He obviously didn’t take a dip in the harbor as I recall some classmates did at our prom! We continue to spend a lot of time in Bethany Beach (yes, even in the winter) and I can usually be found bartending at The Penguin on weekend mornings.

In April 2022, the University of Virginia's men's lacrosse team celebrated the 50th anniversary of its 1972 championship team, the first in school history. Included on that roster — and back for the celebration — were a host of Gilman alumni including: Tom Duquette '69, Scott Howe '71, Bob Proutt '68, Boo Smith '70, John Stalfort '69, and Stuart Webb '68.

Continuing my scholarly work as a professor in the department of physical therapy at the University of New England. Currently I am a co-investigator on a five-year, multi-site clinical trial studying the effect of a physical activity (walking) intervention for persons with Parkinson disease, mediated by mobile-health technology.

Well, it is hard to believe that another year has flown by, and I am very grateful to be back in the office with my partners. This is my fourth year with Merrill, and I could not be happier. Without a doubt the greatest satisfaction I experience every day is being a father and seeing what were my young children who have now become young adults.

Life is still good for Eddie Brown, who seems to have nearly completely recovered from a small stroke that occurred a few years ago, and is back playing golf on a regular basis.

Bruce Brian and wife, Linda, have established permanent residency in Priest Lake, Idaho, after splitting time between there and the Villages in central Florida.

Aside from a few medical issues which have, for the most part, resolved, Crossan O’Donovan reports that life in his and Brenda’s Raleigh, North Carolina, retirement community is slowly normalizing. 

A few weeks ago, Pat Mundy contacted me to see if I knew the name of the Carver High School wrestler who beat him in the semi finals of the 175-pound weight class of the MSA interscholastic tourney. He wanted to try to locate him and reminisce about the match.

John Lewin, our class Renaissance Man in residence, has added another creative skill to his repertoire. During the COVID pandemic, he and Tolly began to take up painting in earnest. He shared many of them with me, and I must say, they are impressive. I’m including one to share with everyone. Move over, Paul Gauguin! John, Tolly, and their two dogs, Oscar and Ernie, are living full time in Bethany Beach. They hope to take a Baltic cruise this summer.

Enjoying being a grandfather. My first daughter gave birth to a boy in August 2021. My second daughter is getting married the same day as our 40th reunion, April 23, 2022. Sorry, walking her down the aisle will take priority. 

I just got to Beaufort, North Carolina from St. Croix, where I was both cook and watch captain.

As for me, fixing noses here in Boca Raton since 1987. My wife, Franny, is a recently retired nurse. We spend as much time as we can with our kids and getting involved with our community.

In January, members of the Class of 1987 gathered at Johnny’s in Roland Park to celebrate the School’s first win at the Haswell M. Franklin ’50 Gilman Duals Wrestling Tournament in 30 years. Pictured left to right are Peter Kwiterovich, Hugh Marbury, Rick Roebuck, Matt Wyskiel, and Louis Angelos.

I just visited Baltimore for only the second time in two years. This was the first time that my wife and daughter had seen my parents in person in all that time. I made sure to drive by Gilman to see whether it was still there. After these two strange years, it seemed important to question every assumption. Gilman was there, and it looked as impressive and inviting as always.

Members of the Class of 2015, many sporting Ted Lasso-style mustaches, caught up at an Irish Pub in New York in February. Pictured are Peter McIntrye (seated in front) and left-to-right Andy Matthews , Adam Luray, Carlyle Turner, Jimmy Williams, with Graham Duncan in the back.

Semi-retired after more than a dozen years as a head of school in Texas and Nevada, “Cousy” has launched his own consulting firm, trained as a legal mediator...

After 25 years working in house at Fidelity Investments, I retired at the end of 2021 to embrace new adventures. My wife, Jane, and I are in the process of downsizing from our home in Wellesley, Massachusetts, and I am taking on teaching several courses at a local law school and also doing a lot of volunteer nonprofit work. My youngest is graduating from NYU/Tisch this spring and our oldest is working in Chicago, so we are truly empty nesters.

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.

Retired from the Navy on August 1, 2021, after 38 years, as a Vice Admiral. Relocated back to Jacksonville Beach, Florida, and starting a new chapter in the consulting business. Welcomed grandchild number four just before retirement.

In late January, Thomas Beck ’64, Ted Bedford ’60, David Johnson ’64, and Rob McCormick ’64 caught up with one another at the home of Gary and Missy Gill (RPCS ’76 and sister of T. Beck) in Vero Beach, Florida. 

I am working with the Bonobo Conservation Initiative to protect nine million acres of bonobo habitat in the Democratic Republic of Congo (www.bonobo.org), and recently made a film about our efforts, featuring Ashley Judd (ourhomeplanet.us/special-places).

Bean and I transitioned to Delaplane, Virginia by May 2019. I retired from a large group orthopedic practice and faculty position at Northwestern University after 31 years.

Members of the class of 2021: Charlie Pope, Capp Reynolds, Ben Tewey, Carter Spahn, Heath Otenasek, Cole Emry, Tucker Hebert (front), and Ethan Maddox, who had taken the senior elective, “Perspectives in Modern War,” sat down to catch up and reminisce at Atwater’s in Baltimore with their former teacher Jay Brooks ’10 in December 2021.

Jay Brooks is in his first year in med school at New York City’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he is getting his MD and Master’s in Public Health.

Gilman alumni gathered in the Mile High City to cheer on the Ravens as they faced the Denver Broncos on October 3, 2021.

I left Baltimore after my freshman year at JHU, first for the EPFL in Lausanne. I then moved to Silicon Valley and Stanford for a Ph.D., the first 20 years of a research career, a fantastic and enduring marriage, and two great kids who are now professionals in their own right.

John Kim came back to Charm City and gathered a crew for dinner in September 2021. John Bond, Brett Rogers, Mitchell Whiteman, Jason Finkelstein, and Than’l Badder joined him at Johnny’s in Roland Park. 

All is well here in Park City. Barb and I have isolated ourselves and have kept the virus at bay. One exception is that I have continued to volunteer at the local free health clinic.

Evans Lansing Smith is Chair and Core Faculty of the Mythological Studies Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.

Members of the class of 1992 caught up for a day on the boat in Middle River, Maryland. Shown left to right are Victor Carter-Bey, Geoff Berry, Cheo Hurley, Antoine Hutchinson, and Dana Underwood.

I have been living in San Diego, CA. for over 20 years. I am a trader and investment adviser.

Doug Sandler and Sung Min Chung caught up recently at a family party in Hong Kong, where their families have been weathering the pandemic storm together.

Doug Sandler and Sung Min Chung caught up recently at a family party in Hong Kong, where their families have been weathering the pandemic storm together. 

Former Greyhound baseball teammates Matt Tilley '13, Gavin Sheets '14, and Ryan Ripken '12 caught up recently in Norfolk, Virginia. Gavin’s Charlotte Knights were in town to play Ryan’s Norfolks Tides. The Tides got the better of the Knights that night, but Gavin homered in the loss.

Former Greyhound baseball teammates Matt Tilley '13, Gavin Sheets '14, and Ryan Ripken '12 caught up recently in Norfolk, VA. Gavin's Charlotte Knights were in town to play Ryan's Norfolks Tides. The Tides got the better of the Knights that night, but Gavin homered in the loss.

Ah, life in Pandemia! So, the Miller family were early adopters of COVID-19. I was first to contract it, in February 2020.

I’m in LA with my wife and two daughters, 13 and 16. When I’m not paying taxes, I’m working to pay more taxes

Andy has been navigating the pandemic from the vice chairman’s office of the NY Mets!

Neal is back in Baltimore, living in Owings Mills with his wife and 12-year-old son. His son has Neal’s great locks, but longer and cool, but Neal insists his son cannot be cool, because he goes to Friends School!

Has been with Principal Financial Group for many years and moved over to the firm’s international business unit a couple years ago to lead a digital product team.

Always international and debonaire, Stef has taken his style and smarts to Woolrich, where he’s CEO.

I was just named a Distinguished Agriculture Alumnus by Purdue University’s College of Agriculture.

Rachel and I flew to Israel last June to sit out the pandemic in our Jerusalem apartment, within walking distance of our four children and 12 grandchildren.

I had a granddaughter born in Cuba and I worked in the COVID Command Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview where I am director of community relations...

It is with great angst that I, and we, have already conceded to COVID-19 and have had to postpone our in-person class reunion last year. It finds me in a difficult place in my life and in the world

Another death deserves mention here even though it happened back in May 2018. As the Baltimoreans well remember, Kevin Kamenetz, then Baltimore County Executive, had a fatal heart attack in the middle of a hard-fought primary campaign to become Maryland’s Democratic nominee for governor.

Mike Phipps passed on Dec. 17, 2020 from complications of a stroke.

As family is a big theme here, I’m reprising one of my favorite and least conventional family stories – Adam Weisenberg discovering the half-brother he never knew he had, thanks to one of those family ancestry genetic home tests.

Where to begin? I’m still working. I plan to retire 5/1/22. I’ve got three well-adjusted kids, all doing wonderfully.

Bill Harwood seems like a Baltimorean because he’s so good at keeping in touch with so many classmates, hometown or otherwise, a class president to his bones.

Gerry Brewster reports from the Maryland COVID front lines, which turns out to be the Maryland Fairgrounds. Gerry, not coincidentally, is the chairman of the board of the Maryland State Fair and Agricultural Society.

Recently, they’ve been spending more time in Florida which, I guess, is what you do during a pandemic if you don’t get a puppy (much of the Upper West Side of Manhattan having opted for the latter option).

He is no longer the country squire, the digital don of the Worthington Valley, but has moved back into the Roland Park house, on St. George’s Road, where he and his family lived our last two years at Gilman

Last November, Susan and I went to the Midwest to some battleground states to help out on the election. Our most interesting experience was working in the downtown Chicago precincts handing out food and water to people standing in line to vote, encouraging people to wait it out and keep turnout high.

MacKay Wolff spends two-thirds of every month in New York City, engaging virtually in local culture, and the remainder in DC contributing to a study of Syrian refugee movements.

Divorce was 2017-2018…..I’m back in the dating pool as we speak (had one first-meeting dinner last evening and another scheduled for tomorrow evening)…

Still trying to hit this Mega Millions (only missed five out of six numbers last time!).

Henry and his wife, Zan (BMS ’91), live in Ellicott City.

David Olsen just moved to Michigan last summer after completing a one-year graduate program at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Remember when classmates Brian Margerum, Andrew Wooten, Matt Garrity, John Steele, Vince Tuohey, and Josh Hrebiniak would drive into Baltimore every day from Annapolis to attend Gilman on a bus? Well, now Josh Hrebiniak lives in that very same bus.

Danny Mooney and Stu Wyeth, after years of preparation, are finally launching the Zebra Lacrosse League (ZLL).

James Bentley is running communications for the city's pandemic response and he also took over as director of communications at the Department of Public Works.

John Allen is a self proclaimed “girl dad.” He is loving all the close family time with his first and third graders and his oldest daughter, Kya, is a Terp like Dad and dominating her studies at University of Maryland!

David Kim is still in the heart of downtown Atlanta. He has a gentleman's farm with fruits and veggies, some chickens and even a goat! Chicks are not only hatching on the farm as David and Minjae just had their fourth little one, Emma.

Mike Stanley is living in Astoria, Queens. He, his wife Dana, and 3-year-old daughter Sara are doing well, especially since Sara is able to be in daycare.

Bobby Moran and his wife, Becca, have been incredibly lucky over the past year. Just before the pandemic, they bought a house on the water in Arnold, Maryland, just north of Annapolis, and they have thoroughly enjoyed living in the area.

Jay Sullivan is the Tiger King of West Palm Beach where he winters and spends the warmer months in Locust Valley, New York.

Sue and I are doing fine here in Franklin, Massachusetts. We’ve managed to stay COVID-free and are looking forward to getting back to normal life where we can do short trips, etc.

I continue to work full time in the finance world and still find it both challenging and stimulating

The first to respond was Dr. Dave Andrew from Honolulu where he and Bonnie have been in the same house for 30 years. Evie and I visited them a few years ago, and when he says they have a “spectacular view from 400 feet above the Pacific Ocean,” he understates the reality.

We belatedly learned that Doug Small passed away on October 11, 2019 after an injury sustained while mountain biking.

My year was filled with road trips up and down the eastern seaboard and across the country.

Noah Bengur retired from the Marine Corps after 20 years and seven successful tours overseas. He is flying for Delta Airlines.

Not much has changed in the Wilkes/Wilson household. Health is still relatively good for the two of us.

Looking back a year, the most important thing was to avoid and survive COVID, both physically and mentally, and eventually to receive two jabs of Moderna.

Unfortunately, in November, he was diagnosed with an aggressive and incurable form of brain cancer and succumbed to it on January 2, 2021.

Billy Buppert's oompa loompas were hard at work this year at Ruxton Chocolates gearing up for Valentine’s Day.

Danny Mooney and Stu Wyeth, after years of preparation, are finally launching the Zebra Lacrosse League (ZLL).

The Scott family has been enjoying the challenges of balancing full-time employment with full-time homeschooling for our two children, Dylan (9) and Bronwen (7).

Jordan Angell continues to be a glowing light in the Baltimore community. He connects people he meets each and every day and builds bonds that will last a lifetime, not to be confused with what he does at his day job where he quite literally cuts ties.

Time is certainly hurrying by. COVID-19 and health issues are keeping me pretty much locked up. Sadly, Mo (his son), is under 24-hour care for his breathing issues.

Brooks Marshall's highlight of 2020 was a visit from yours truly (Lanacow) in their epic voyage across the country!

Jim Garrett reports the main thing is that Edie and I have remained healthy throughout the past many months of the pandemic. During the 2020-2021 academic year, my connection to Gilman deepened in two different ways.

Ben Stevens still lives in Maryland with his wife (Megan), three kids (Greyson, 9, Olivia, 6, and Tucker, 4) and their 135-pound Bernese “puppy” named Putter.

Scott Faulkner enjoys his time and family as always

John Schmick continues to enjoy working in the Upper School at Gilman. His wife, Kate, is a learning specialist in the Lower School, where his two sons are in pre-k and third grade.

Geoff Greenblatt and his wife, Carly, hunkered down in Brooklyn for the past year with their dog, Lola.

Bryson Christhilf is like many of us. He says he can't think of a single notable thing that happened this year other than getting his COVID shots in February in Florida. It was the high point of the last 12 months. Next year will have to be better.

Aaron Hunter has his two boys, now 6 and 8, who he has been coaching in soccer and baseball.

Andy attended Gilman in our first and second form years as a five-day boarder before moving to St. Andrews in Delaware and then Trinity College. ... He died February 16, 2020.

Jim Keesey admits that chess games with his granddaughter are “taking longer than before” and his ping pong games with his grandson now have a “predetermined outcome.”

Oregonite Sam Sadtler reports that his large tree farm is thriving. And he reported they sold their Oregon Coast getaway.

Leigh and I continue to live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Dick Hoffman retired in June 2019, after 44 years in higher education, in which his last posting was at Salisbury University.

Since our 50th, I have continued to work on Defense Institution Building, under the auspices of RAND and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Tom Parkinson passed away in late November, after a several months’ battle with pancreatic cancer

Roger Novak reports that he and Kathy were enjoying an early March getaway last year as the full serious nature of COVID became apparent.

Carola and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in May of 2020, by staying home!

I am now semi-retired as a graphic designer and have been transitioning to a new career as a printmaker.

Coming on the call two hours and 45 minutes late was none other than George “Mad Fin” Finney. I distinctly remember hearing “Did I do that?” and yes, George, you did.

Eric Hendrix died peacefully at his home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Steve Pulimood runs a real estate business in Baltimore when he’s not collecting cool cars and art.

Chisom Opara is entering his fourth season with the Minnesota Vikings in the personnel department, and he is moving to Minnesota after the draft to work in the front office.

After exiting the financial services rat race almost a decade ago, Jonas Mendoza became a sommelier based in New York.

Mark has not sailed in more than a year and he looked like he was going through withdrawals.

Jeff Hossfeld has been grinding along and is now a “senior” project manager at Whiting Turner Contracting Co, which he says “is basically the same job with a new title.”

Jack Dietrich and his wife, Ellen, have been busy with their three daughters (6, 4, 2) while growing their children's sunglasses brand, WeeFarers, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Mark Bower is working with Helm Partners in research and business development.

Bruce Bower got married in March of 2019 in Spain.

Ward Bank just got his vaccine and could not be more excited about it.

Alan Livsey sends his best from London but was unable to make the Zoom call since it was past his bedtime. Totally understandable.

David deMuth says that after working downtown for the previous 36 years, his office moved to Towson last spring.

Steve Plunkert is a new grandfather.

Shockey Gillet has a grandchild on the way. He is doing well living on a horse farm and still riding every day.

Charlie O’Donovan visited John Zentz in St. Louis to do some shooting in the fall.

Tom Schermerhorn is a doctor in North Carolina.

Mike McGeady is in his family’s marine construction business.

Tim Codd is the man to see if you have a shoulder issue.

Brad Dwight is in San Diego working for the Padres.

Rob Haley is a bank manager at M&T Bank in Virginia.

Steph Jackson returned from London in early 2020 working for T. Rowe Price, and is taking on the role as head of T. Rowe Price Investment Management, a new business unit to launch in 2022.

Mark Licht also joined late. He could not get Karis on the call with him, which was a shame. She is like a classmate.

Paul Lohrey joined the Zoom call from California. Paul now works for BlackRock and lives in Oakland.

My daughter, Maddie, graduated from Duquesne in Pittsburgh and just finished her internship in music therapy at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in D.C.

A big thank you to Will Griffith for posting for the Zoom call. We know how hard it is to get him off the surfboard. At least he did most of the call poolside in La Jolla, California. I also wanted to thank him for getting me in touch with other classmates

Single. No kids. Ninety percent retired. Just bought a place on 58th Street so apparently I believe NYC isn’t dead or dying.

Tom Brodie joined the Zoom call from his apartment. His beautiful bride, Renee, was kind enough to say hi. I see them on Facebook all the time so it was nice to actually say hi. Their daughter is studying law in New York.

Tom Scott also joined wearing the hated New York Yankees hat. We will cut him some slack since his money is in New York with his daughter.

Peter Pozevsky is teaching history at a small school in Ohio. He is also the proud owner of a full head of hair.

Tolly Merrick was able to join us from his home in Charlottesville where he is continuing his career in academia.

Alan's daughter is graduating from Princeton this spring and heading to Penn Law School.

Betti and John (who christened Gilman sports teams as “The Greyhounds” in 1961) get the prize because they will have celebrated 55 years of marriage by the time you read this.

After 42 years in private practice of allergy and asthma, continuing to stay active (for the brain) in a part-time consultancy with community health centers and (for health) hiking, biking, rowing a small White Hall skiff, cross-country skiing (or as his children call it, uphill skiing) and, for the last year, golf.

Connie and Bill celebrated 52 years married this past June, 47 years of which were in New Jersey, 41 years of which were, and still are, in Princeton, New Jersey, across the street from Tim Schweizer’s sister and brother-in-law.

Back on land in Bellingham, Washington, where he took advantage of the COVID lockdown to produce a 576-page guide book, “Profiles of Northwest Fungi.”

King lost his 57-year partner, Sherry Doeller (Bryn Mawr), suddenly in the fall 2019 from a virulent form of cancer, leaving two daughters and five grandchildren (ages 16-22).

Rick Betts chimes in from sunny Oakland, California, with an observation that, whilst brunching outside with Laura on his birthday, he endured too many people going maskless.

A breath of fresh air arrived with a newsy bit of information from Warren Buckler. He and Pat live in Northwest Indiana where wildlife and wild flowers abound and Lake Michigan is not far away.

Doug Godine and Ellen will tell you lots about their granddaughter at McDonough who was recently featured by The Baltimore Sun as one of the phenoms of high school lacrosse and a sure-fire collegiate star.

Another midwesterner, Professor Kent Flannery, laments in his latest communique that he has to teach his (archeology) classes online.

Bill Eaton checked into a retirement home in D.C. last February whereupon the dining room closed!? Pandemic you know. He is looking forward to using the exercise room, enjoying the food and camaraderie when “things get back to normal.”

George “Pope” Urban reports from beautiful Silver Spring, Maryland, that he and Alicia have found considerable respite in their Deep Creek Lake vacation home.

John C. Seiler, or “Cotton” as his Cornell pals nicknamed him, and Harriett seem to be getting in their travel needs in spite of pandemic restrictions.

Harry Thomas and Karen have taken the bull by the horns. They have decided to leave comfortable Tarrytown, New York, and relocate back to Maryland.

Bill Trimble reliably sent news from Owings Mills, Maryland, that he and Barbara are comfortably surviving even though The Baltimore Sun Is not.

From remote Wingina, Virginia, Andrew Gantt and Digna, our class tree farmers, revel in the noteworthy accomplishments of their three children while planning another summer trip to their place on Madeline Island, Wisconsin.

Talbott Huey writes that he and Abhirada have been relegated to long, but scenic, walks to Lake Roland and the occasional obligatory foray to the grocery store.

Neaville and I rode out the pandemic hunkered down in Charm City, welcoming our daughter Shelby home after her graduation from VCU and helping son Charles IV (“Cal”) transfer from East Carolina U to his new home at the University of Maryland in College Park.

I heard from one of our class’s MIA members, the esteemed Jack Parrish, who happily writes of 37 years and counting of being a teacher of history in several private middle and high schools, and, he notes, “a few more left in me.”

They are well, residing in Homeland, and enjoying watching their children grow and thrive.

Kraig Holt, reports having visited every continent but one — Antarctica — and that’s next on his list once the world opens back up again after COVID.

Tolly and Wendy are looking forward to traveling again soon, perhaps to Florida to see eldest daughter Annie, who’s a historical preservationist for the Sunshine State and due to marry this November.

Bill and Sally have enjoyed settling into their sylvan new digs, and any given day you will find Mr. B deep in the outback of western Pennsylvania digitally recording the lives of fox kits, barred owls, or striped salamanders, all with a glorious artist’s eye.

John McDaneil gives major props to Larry Eisenstein for “standing up for what is right at the Baltimore Museum of Art and convincing the director and board of trustees to not sell part of their collection to raise money.”

John and Barbara, who say they are “happy enough where we are,” celebrated the recent wedding of one of Barbara’s sons.

In regards to Marc Paul, it appears he has succumbed to what is known in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and environs as “the Southern part of Heaven.”

Speaking of educators, it was great to hear from Erwin Hosono, whose exploits recently selling his house in Palo Alto, California, I’d been following on Facebook.

Jim Wetzel writes from Villanova that it took him six months at least to get used to teaching via simulcast.

It’s also great to see David Bealmear checking in! He’s doing well in Charlottesville, Virginia, celebrating 30 years working for Bank of America, these days as a portfolio manager for the Private Bank.

Tina and Patrick Cranley rode out the pandemic in Shanghai and endured at least a year and a half being unable to see their “stateside” family or friends.

Dr. Lou Dibos knows a bit about planning for children’s weddings — he’s celebrated nuptials for both his daughters in the past three years since moving to southwest Florida, and he is currently looking forward to his youngest son’s upcoming knot-tying.

While Murray deMuth spends his regular “retirement” days running up and down the Chesapeake Bay and offshore Ocean City as skipper of TWT Fishing Charters, now in its fourth year, he recently added a new outdoors adventure to his business — taking a group of friends hunting waterfowl in North Dakota and Saskatchewan!

Charlie Wright summed up the year quite nicely, actually: “Last year has SUCKED,” he wrote.

In October, Pam and Tom Fusting officially pulled out of Maryland and moved to Franklin, Tennessee.

Hello classmates! I miss you and can't wait for our next chance to be together. My family and I are well ... I am still a United Methodist pastor, serving now in downtown Hagerstown at John Wesley United Methodist Church (UMC), where I began on July 1.

Todd Stokes was interviewed for an article in the Calvert School newsletter, where his life as Calvert’s first African American graduate was celebrated.

Clark MacKenzie shared a terrific photo of himself with his two sons, and remarked that he “worked for eight months (May 2020-January 2021) as a loan specialist (EIDL) for the U.S. Small Business Administration.

As with you all, the year of COVID brought us many challenges, but it brought many blessings, so I will focus on them.

Accolades to George Murnaghan and his outstanding outreach ministry efforts with Lex Eat Together, supporting those in need of food, spirit, and camaraderie.

When Darin Hall needed a name for his real estate development company in Cincinnati, “civitas” came to mind.

Doug Schmidt has two sons at Gilman — Spencer in 11th grade and Bennett in eighth grade — and his daughter, Lila, is a fifth grader at Calvert.

My son, Joey, is still at Calvert, and fortunately every grade there has had in-person classes since the first day of school.

Despite the global tumult of 2021, not much has changed in my life. I still have one wife (same one), one daughter, two dogs and four bicycles. I’ve spent the last year on research leave from the University of Kentucky to write a book exploring the ‘theory of the classroom.’

After 30 years in the military, Joe Ortiz plans to retire in 2023.

Last fall, Bill Buchanan made a solo pandemic trip to Squam Lake in New Hampshire, where he kayaked, enjoyed the solitude, and came within 30 feet of a bear.

In addition to playing music, Phil led a team that developed a gaming technology called the Goose Enterprises LagMeter, which “can measure and report the total lag time of your gaming system.”

Marcus has also recently started turning wood bowls on his lathe.

In mid-September of 2020, Mac Ford and his wife hosted their daughter Molly’s wedding at their home.

Early in the pandemic, he got stranded in a tiny Spanish town in the Sierra Nevada, about an hour from Granada.

Pragathi Katta has kept up with classmates and other Gilman folks mainly through Facebook. Back in the spring, as he awaited his second COVID shot, he said he was “already looking forward to getting back on the water.”

Ben Keenan and his wife, Natalie, and their two daughters have been in Wilmington, Delaware, for 20 years.

After 25 years living in Owings Mills, we are moving in June to the hills of Cockeysville adjacent to Oregon Ridge for a little more isolated country life while still in the midst of Baltimore County.

The pandemic postponed the arrival of Andrew Balfour’s empty nest, but he is now settling in nicely.

The prize for teleworking during the pandemic may go to Eddie Rosemond, who ran his Maryland-based web design company from Senegal.

Chip works in business development at the Lucas Group. One of his jobs is to help former members of the military transition into the civilian workforce. When he travels for work, Chip tries to find places to spar.

Luckily Barb and I were in Santa Fe, which is base camp, when it became obvious in March 2020 just how serious this virus was. So, we hunkered down and went nowhere.

I REALLY wish that I could have attended our 50th class reunion to celebrate and catch up with everybody, but there was a little schedule conflict: just a few days later, I flew to Hawaii with my bride-to-be Samy, for our wedding on Shipwreck Beach in Kauai. Hey, priorities

I’ve been living in California since 1997, most of that in San Francisco, with a three-year stint in LA.

Jay West is a partner at a boutique estates and trusts and litigation law firm in Towson.

Michael Blumenfeld is a trial attorney with Nelson Mullins, handling a variety of nationwide commercial disputes.

Gabe Procaccini is an energy lawyer living in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Maria, and also lives part time in Panama. Gabe is a self-described “funcle,” enjoying spending time with his seven nieces and nephews.

Joe Nguyen is in Singapore and has been since college.

Lucas Scheps is an oncology therapeutic specialist living in Baltimore with his wife, Becky, and their four kids.

Tom Biddison is a managing partner at wealth management firm Cornerstone Advisory, which he co-founded in 2007.

Jon Davidson has been involved in D.C. politics for many a year, and was recently appointed Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, a key role in the Department of Treasury, by President Biden.

Carlton White lives in Atlanta with his wife while pursuing further education. He would like everyone to know that he is “holding it down.

Arnold Turner is a test engineer at Northrop Grumman, and lives in Severna Park with his wife, Evelyn, and kids, Claire (10) and Patrick (7).

Josh Levinson and his wife, Kara (first grade teacher at Gilman), own the iconic running specialty company Charm City Run, and live in Towson.

Amahl Foster is a fire specialist at the Baltimore County Fire Department and lives in Baltimore with his wife, Kendra.

Michael Lee is VP, finance technology at Fannie Mae. Michael currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Hana, daughter, Jordan (8), and son, River (5).

Danny Green has lived in Los Angeles for many years and definitely has his finger on the pulse.

Rob Marbury runs the creative department at Imre, a media agency in Towson.

Rajib Amin is chief financial officer at Granicus, a cloud software company.

Tony Armstrong is the other Florida boy in the group, living and working in Miami.

Paul Wilson lives and works in Ft. Lauderdale, and thankfully has managed to dodge COVID while living in wide-open Florida.

Myron Jacobs is senior director of finance at United Healthcare, and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife.

Ted Wight Jr. lives in Baltimore, where he has a company that does financial planning for physicians.

Steven Sherman is in the insurance business and lives in Stevenson, where he combats his three teenagers.

Brad Burgunder lives in Baltimore and has a daughter in high school and a son in middle school. He is currently writing his second children’s book.

Peter Chung has been a pediatrician for the last 20 years at Carroll Children’s Center in Westminster and lives in 21093 with his wife, Pam, daughter, Emily, and son, Eric.

Richard Logue is senior VP for Envision Health and lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Kim, and daughter, Charli (7).

John Snead is a financial advisor with Wells Fargo Advisors and lives in Williamsburg, Virginia, with his wife, Ginny, (an environmental engineer) and their three sons Jack (18), Will (16), and James (13).

James Hamilton is an associate professor of medicine, director of hepatology, and the associate director of the Division of Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins.

Chris Hooper is a corporate attorney for Piper Sandler and lives in Denver with his wife, Athena, and two sons, Lachlan (18) and Grady (15), where they all enjoy skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, and hiking in the Rockies

David Baltazar lives in Ellicott City with his wife, Rose, and their two sons, Josh (15) and Ryan (13). Dave is a patent attorney with a Washington, D.C., law firm.

Michael Ballesteros works at the CDC as an epidemiologist and the associate director for science for a CDC division focusing on injury and suicide prevention.

Andrew Martire is Head of School at Tatnall School, a pre-K through 12th grade school in Wilmington, Delaware.

DJ Saluja runs a private primary care practice with offices at the Rotunda and in Pikesville.

Jim Vandenburg writes that he is changing his residence in the Richmond, Virginia area.

Dave Albright retired from representing the children in Baltimore City who suffered from lead paint poisoning, having represented these children for more than 20 years as a plaintiff's lawyer.

George Murnahan is celebrating the 50th birthday of his restored and quite fun-to-drive 1971 BMW 1600 sport sedan.

Jack Gray has been holed up in his Manhattan apartment since early March 2020, working from home.

Kevin Matthews writes that life is still good in Greensboro, North Carolina.

My story arc is short. Returned from Brown to Baltimore for med school (JHU), then Cleveland/Case for residency, then back to Baltimore for fellowship in gastroenterology.

Sandy London’s 26th (!) book is coming out from Scholastic this September, the first in a new series for young readers called Battle Dragons.

Dan Diamond, after a high-impact run covering health care politics for POLITICO, joined The Washington Post’s Health and Science team in January 2021

The Coopers are great. On impulse, we bought a house on Nantucket during the depths of COVID and have really loved being up there as much as possible.

Our annual holiday luncheon, started by A.C. George and Jamie Murray, continued for a 13th year, and the pandemic merely shifted the event to the Zoom format.

Marc Zarbin reports that his wife, Susan, Nicolas (16), Francesca (14), Isabel (14), and he are well in New Jersey.

Kimball Byron is a man of many talents and interests, and his years of work on his home in Baltimore County was showcased on a Maryland House and Garden Pilgrimage.

I decided after receiving Rick’s communication to go back five years and figure out what had happened since our last reunion and was surprised at all that had happened. So, here goes.

I continue to represent hospitals in the Maryland office of a national healthcare law firm.

Johnny Shaw died of kidney failure on June 26, 2020.

Warren Stewart died from complications of dementia on Feb. 2, 2021.

Bob passed on May 7, 2020, after spending his entire career as an esteemed professor/researcher at the University of Texas Medical Branch’s department of cell biology and neuroscience.

He also hopes to be at our 60th reunion.

Dr. Gino Freeman, let us know that he’s “still in Baltimore, practicing internal medicine, trying to swim better...

Henry Jenkins retired from Northrop Grumman several years ago and lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with wife Kathy.

David Zura lives in Dallas with his wife, Susan. He’s the CEO of Global Z Holdings, an “investment firm providing capital and strategic support to enable entrepreneurs and business leaders to realize their vision and dreams.”

I currently have my fifth feature screenplay, a fast-paced drama, in preliminary development with a startup production company based in Los Angeles.

Congrats to John Roe. His latest development project, Union Brothers Furniture in Baltimore City, received the 2021 Maryland Preservation Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design.

Lee Sterne’s Facebook page leaves me envious of his wonderful travels.

I saw and managed to wave to Gideon Brower as I drove past him. He seemed to be walking to MOM’s Organic Market with his wife, Marisa Kurtzman, and…. baby girl, Julia Sidney Brower, born November 6, 2020. They normally live in LA

Diana and I are about to be empty nesters.

I’ve been sitting at home in front of a computer for the past year!

Bizzy and I are taking a two-week pacific northwest tour in a four-wheel-drive revel sprinter van this summer

I, at my old age, am working on my doctorate of music education at Boston University, and am still the music department chair at Besant Hill School, a small boarding school in Ojai, California.

Favorite COVID activity: skiing. We rented a mountain house and spent six weeks on the slopes this winter ... a truly once-in-a-lifetime family opportunity we’ll never forget.

Mark Kaufman let us know that he’s “living in Baltimore and running a nonprofit investment fund that targets disinvested parts of Baltimore City.

I am engaged to be married to Ashley Ingraham. We are looking forward to a small wedding in 2022 where everyone can gather post COVID and each of our daughters can ‘give us away.’

Griff Evans just celebrated 28 years as the owner of Ecological Restoration and Management, a full-service landscaping firm specializing in the construction and enhancement of native ecosystems.

COVID shut down my training business — in-person training was taboo and virtual is not practical for what I do — so I decided to fully retire.

He and Scarlett live just outside of Burlington, Vermont. They too have been hunkered down, but also have two grandchildren nearby that they have been waiting to see more of.

Bill Lamb, once again a resident of San Diego, noted that he and Jenny “are beginning to seriously consider future living options.”

Your scribe continues to split time between Baltimore and St. Michaels on the Eastern Shore.

John Claster reports only that he’s “enjoying life in Florida, finds it nice once again to have a more open daily existence, and is looking forward to things returning to normal sufficiently for him to travel and visit family.”

He and Ann got stuck on Sanibel Island in Florida last year, and had to stay there for months.

Steve McDaniel and Angie are still taking lots of pictures and tending to their honey bees.

Mac Lewis writes that they are surviving the pandemic, kids and grandkids doing well, all young adults fully employed.

John and his wife, Jean, live on Kent Island, and between them, they have three children and five grandchildren. John’s oldest daughter, Libby, married a classmate from the Naval Academy after they graduated in 1997.

Mike is vice president and deputy general counsel at CACI, a Fortune 1000 defense contractor, after spending several years in the GC’s office at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Jon Hamman checks in from southwest Virginia, where he’s in his 16th year as pastor of the Rural Retreat Lutheran Parish.

After running a transportation company for 16 years, last summer — in the midst of the pandemic — Michael launched Spinning Cups Coffee, a mobile coffee truck and coffee distributor.

All is fine with retirement in the San Francisco Bay Area. COVID has kept us hiding out at home but we are well. No skiing for me this year but been playing golf. Hope to be back east in the fall.

John-William continues to enjoy working at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Greetings from Oregon! The last five years have not produced profound change, as I still have the same habits, still practice psychology, still surf, and as I write this, am today celebrating the 46th anniversary of my marriage, still, to my lovely wife Louisa.

Ned Sacktor passed away 11/11/2020 from pancreatic cancer.

Marc Dubick’s youngest son is going to follow his father and brother to the University of Maryland to play lacrosse.

Jim Wilkerson has been battling major health issues. Wilky has had a successful liver transplant. He is doing extremely well. His oldest boy, Jay, is a freshman on the varsity lacrosse team like his dad

Guy Davis has been battling major health issues. I spoke with Guy on the phone in November of 2020. He has a brain tumor and his body has reacted well to the treatment. I am hoping to see him this year in Richmond when I visit.

Ann and Sam Hillers now live in Claremont, California, on the eastern edge of LA county.

This has been a difficult year for all of us because of all the COVID restrictions, lack of travel, and a very restricted way of life. Black Lives Matter and our need to develop more respect for other people have been concurrent factors.

I’m happy to be a COVID survivor! Two days after my first Pfizer jab, I came down with the virus.

With an assist from the pandemic, I have transitioned from trying to satisfy clients to trying to meet Fitbit goals.

I believe that the quantity and quality of responses to your request must set an all-time record! They make a most interesting read which we cannot rival, so we will remain mute this year. We (Betsy and I) do send our best wishes.

We have gotten through COVID with minimal inconvenience due to choosing an RV lifestyle years ago.

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.

As 2020 closed, we moved from the Las Vegas area to Meridian, Idaho, a suburb of Boise. After 35-plus years of living in Southern California, southern Nevada, and on Maui, we have returned to cold and gray winters; however, the area does not get too much snow.

Not much to report, except wife Beaumont and I both received both shots!! All 11 grandkids doing well with oldest a sophomore at Yale and playing lacrosse (next year). Other grands at Calvert, Odyssey, Garrison Forest, Bryn Mawr. Last one headed to Chapel Hill next year!

Sean Darby had a minor battle with the coronavirus. He is doing well now. Sean’s son, Charlie, graduates from Bucknell this year.

I’m still vertical having survived COVID (so far) retired and just hanging out at home in Pennsylvania currently.

John O’Donovan and Lisa’s oldest son, Jenks, graduates from Tulane this year and their second son, Henry, goes to Alabama where he spent the entire year studying remotely. They spend much of their leisure time at their home in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

Tom Booker is busy watching his son, Thomas '18, play football for Stanford.

David Johnson, with some news of other classmates as well, informs us that he is “fully retired and permanent resident of Vero Beach, FL. Summers in Newport, RI and still trying to keep my balance on 35 ft. sailboat."

Dave Willis spends much of his time watching his youngest son play baseball for Georgetown University while running a successful family business.

Several years ago, I returned to the house in which I grew up to take care of my now 94-year-old mother with the assistance of a daytime caregiver.

Biff Poggi is still coaching football and growing boys into men at St. Frances although they have not played any games in more than a year due to the pandemic.

To pass the time during this unusual year, Roberta and Rick Watts have been traveling the United States in their RV.

My wife, Jennifer, and I are empty nesters living here in Baltimore (just a few blocks away from Gilman).

Alex Fisher continues with the investment business, and also spends lots of time on nonprofit endeavors like the Baltimore Tree Trust, Church of the Good Shepherd, and BMoreAg, which fosters the advancement of modern urban agriculture in Baltimore.

I also got an email from Temple Grassi that he has added pickleball to his ‘quiver’ of racquet sports, which include tennis, squash, court tennis, and now pickleball.

Bambi and I are Maryland expats for six months a year in Delray Beach, Florida. I still like my work, but with bricks and mortar retailers almost extinct, the opportunities are few and far between.

I am still alive, and I am still working as a pharmacist in sunny downtown Brookland Park. Now I am ready to come out and speak about all those wonderful life experiences. I still have my old ACD dictionary.

Following my “career expiration date” in 2017 we (my bride and I) briefly attempted to inhabit one of the sea islands near Beaufort, South Carolina.

So what have I been up to? In no particular order: putting on 117 COVID pounds, and trying to figure out where to hide them (trust me — black sweaters don’t work); trying to unearth the details of the Normandin/Nickel affair, since you schlubs at the Gilman News dropped the ball on that; using my cover/front job in the moving business to gather intel on classmates (blackmail letters to follow); trying to talk Washburne into shooting the sequel: Hermes Charles — Las Vegas!; ...that’s about it

I’m simply enjoying a “working” retirement, as I help my wife during tax season.

Only a few of 51 still around. Dan Moore, Rollin Otto, and Bob Swindell are all at Blakehurst in Baltimore County. Bill Burgan is in DC and Lew Barker is in Chevy Chase. Tom Calloway is in Georgia, Tom Offut is in Ohio, and Henderson Dorsey in Florida. If any others still exist please contact me or Gilman.

A photo-bio of my ever-inspiring wife is at dioi.org/bunny.htm, chronicling her from high school “brain” to scholarship-Harvard-grad to one-month NYC model to half century as devoted college librarian.

Corbin Marr spends much of his time as a currier of medical samples around the D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia areas. Corbin and Liz continue to enjoy living in D.C., but his recent trips have been to Michigan, not Maryland...

As I did last year, I’ll give only a summary and highlights of class news, because almost all news of interest is available on the class list-serve that Bob Cole set up for us months ago...

Remembrances of Richie are well said by all. He was such a friendly person for all the years we knew him.

Richie’s death is very sad. A really good guy. Jim Constable put it well with “godfather of the class.” Although I was geographically remote, I still really vicariously enjoyed the get-togethers he led, thanks to the group photos. May he rest in peace.

Susie and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on June 20, 2020, almost exactly the same date as the 60th anniversary of my Gilman graduation.

On my personal front, I am finishing these notes gazing out at the Severn River, where Mary-Ann and I spend a good bit of time on St. Helena Island, the perfect spot for quarantining.

Tom Whedbee continues to labor on behalf of the Maryland Agricultural Resource Council, where he has been board chair for around five years.

Continuing his distinguished legal career, John Stalfort was recently selected as a Fellow of the American College of Bond Counsel, which recognizes leading public finance lawyers throughout the United States and promotes high ethics and professionalism in the practice of public finance law.

Mitch Koppleman has enjoyed quite a career at Thomson Reuters.

Rob Deford continues to thrive at Boordy Vineyards.

Jim Burghardt is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals.

Woods Bennett was selected as a Super Lawyer for 2009-2021. I am told that such designation requires an evaluation of numerous criteria and peer recognition

Lee Gaines has also been enjoying some time down south but he still remains actively involved at the helm of Gaines & Company.

Jack Machen has retired from his role helping Baltimore City with its real estate requirements.

I am sure that all of you who watch the news have seen Paul Offitt on national television lending his expertise on infectious diseases to inform the public in these unique times.

Jett Ratcliffe taught Alex Puthumana how to swing a golf club over the summer of 2020.

Aaron Gokaslan was featured in Wired Magazine for his work on an artificial intelligence language software that was released to the general public.

Gavin Sheets was selected to join the Chicago White Sox 40-man roster during spring training at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona. He is now playing AAA ball for the Charlotte Knights.

Phillip Kwon completed his master’s degree in an accelerated program from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Melvin Keihn started his own health, wellness, and fitness brand called Kraft by Keihn. Melvin is now competing in national body-building competitions all over the country.

Vincent Posterli successfully restarted his company that we all know and love, VP Jerky. The company was founded during his time at Gilman and restarted in May of 2020. There are two great flavors available with more on the horizon!

Jeremy Hairston became one of the first 2014 Hounds to tie the knot — he married Danari Hairston on January 2.

Taylor Swindell proposed to his girlfriend, Francesca Whitehurst, on September 6. The two started dating while attending Gilman and RPCS!

Trevor Tomlinson successfully completed his law degrees from the University of Baltimore, and Trevor is now a senior law clerk at the Maryland Environmental Service.

Andrew Glick is set to graduate with his law degree from U-Balt next year — way to go Andy!

All is well in Nashville! I’m still providing trademark services at my law firm, Trust Tree. We’re one of the top 25 trademark law firms in the country.

Tragically, I have to report that Jo DeWeese, my wife of 47 years, died October 26 in a bad fall.

When I arrived home from Italy on February 19, 2020, I had no idea that this would be my last plane flight to date, or that it would be well over a year and counting until I could return there...

I’m currently a full-time teaching professor in the department of theatre and dance at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

David Fitzpatrick and his wife, Meredith, welcomed their first child, James.... a son and future Greyhound! The family also recently relocated to Roland Park and are excited to be back in Baltimore!

Carl Combs, living in Ellicott City and still working for IBM, said he likewise felt a sense of being a part of as a member of our class, including as “another kid who happened to run real fast,” and he had a big announcement to make as he joined our conversation, from a bar that sounded even livelier than our online venue.

Doug Rice, sporting a recently grown beard, continues doing mortgage work in Annapolis, with two offspring in South Carolina and one still at home, and he continues to enjoy mountain biking and playing squash.

I’m told that Bruce Lloyd is alive and well and enjoying life at Blakehurst

Yours truly has now celebrated 63 years of marriage producing eight children and 22 grandchildren.

Dudley Parr and his wife continue to operate a non-denominational ministry out of their coffee shop in Cambridge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

Johnny Boynton continues to run the golf programs at Fairhaven where he also sings in the Fairhaven vocal group, just like the good old days at Gilman with the Octet, except his golf game is much better

Some time ago, I read in the Baltimore Sun that classmate Furlong Baldwin was honored for his many contributions to the business community.

Tom Powell advises he is still alive, which in his opinion is remarkable.

Bill Jarrett continues to make regular visits to Baltimore and hosts at the Hopkins Club lunch.

Fletcher Lowe advises that he and Mary Fran have now been married for 61-plus years and are currently residing in a continuing care community where the CEO was ahead of the COVID crisis.

Dave Heubeck said he has retired from his law career, still living in Baltimore and enjoying North Carolina’s Outer Banks during the summer.

It is my sad duty to report that Steve Brooks — aka “Twig” due to his slender frame — died this past April after a 20-year struggle with COPD.

After living in Northern California for 16 years, my family and I will be moving back to Baltimore.

After 18-plus years in D.C.: twins Linnea and Henry graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School. Linnea is headed to Oberlin. Henry will take a gap year in Norway and defer either Ithaca or Oregon.

Trevor Hoffberger married Tory Klein (McDonogh '09, but we’ll let it slide) in a small ceremony on October 10, 2020. They live in Hampden with their dog, Chloe.

I had a nice long chat with Charlie Obrecht, my featured class grad for this year. I believe he’s the only class member still living in the house in which he raised his family. His house on Roland Avenue is so close to the Gilman campus, if he was any closer he’d have to start taking classes again.

Our class president, Peter Daneker, still resides in New York City.

Alex moved back to Baltimore from Washington, D.C., just a little more than a year ago.

Affectionately remembered as Bubba, David and his family currently live in Atlanta where he is the North American CEO of Hays US, one of the world’s largest job recruitment and placement agencies.

Clark MacKenzie has bought a home in Brightwood, the senior community he developed on Falls Road some time ago, and he and Andy are splitting most of their time between there and beautiful Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where they have had a second home for some time.

Dick Emory continues to pitch his book, “Fighting Pollution and Climate Change” on his environmental career and he has added a video as well, definitely worth a look.

Larry Stifler’s Maine Mineral and Gem Museum is back open and getting excellent ratings from visitors. The Stiflers have kept busy giving talks, being politically active and being involved in education with their foundation.

He has coped with COVID boredom and stress by religiously continuing a dally exercise program.

I am still working in the real estate business; however, thinking about slowing down. Married to my wife, Carol.

Two daughters. One in Charleston, South Carolina. And one in Bmore.

I am an usher for the Charleston Riverdogs (Low A, was a Yankees affiliate, now Rays). Moved here in 2017 with intent of peri-retirement but still staying busy with longstanding clients despite not seeking any new work.

Forty-eight years in a nutshell: Graduation from Gilman was followed by college, medical school, and residency, during which time I met and married my wife, Linda, in a small ceremony with family and friends in Cape May, New Jersey.

As I write this note my wife, Karen and I are taking a two-week road trip, driving across the country with our daughter’s Australian Shepherd, who loves all hiking trails between LA and our home in New York.

Louise and I are still living in beautiful downtown Butler, Maryland with dog Holly, five chickens, two cats, snake Corny, and lots of firewood split by Paisley Louise — love it.

I’m retired from DuPont where I spent most of my career (with a couple M&A side trips) in IT management.

I am In Baltimore and still hawking insurance with classmate Guy Warfield at HMS Insurance in Hunt Valley.

A year ago, in February, my wife, Donna, and I moved from New Jersey to the Outer Banks in North Carolina to enjoy retirement. My son, Jasen, is living in Brooklyn, waiting for Broadway to reopen so he can return to work.

I was very happy to engage Andy Adelson from Florida to join the event as moderator for our May 2021 luncheon, combined in person and Zoom, with his enjoyable humor and upbeat style.

After graduation, I went to Brown and obtained a B.A. in English Literature, without a doubt inspired by my 5th Form year in English with Roy Barker.

Hello from Naples, Florida … aka “God’s Waiting Room” to some. Retired to here and Vermont after 35 years in hotel development, mostly with Marriott. “Retired” but incredibly busy with various real estate projects and getting little done.

I’m recently retired from a 30-year career in orthopedic/hand surgery. UNC, Duke Med, UVa Ortho, Univ Texas hand fellow along the way.

My life since Gilman: BA in American history from Washington & Lee. MBA from UVA. Eighteen years banking...

I live in Newport, Rhode Island, and own Maritime Solutions, a boat dealership and the Freedom Boat Club Franchise for Connecticut and Rhode Island. Three daughters and two grandkids. Still working too much and not fishing enough.

Married 40 years. Two grown children, both with graduate degrees. I am a lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina, far too young to think about retirement.

Living in Rockville, Maryland, with my wife, Margaret. My three daughters are now grown up and married – I have four grandkids – three boys and one girl – Connor, Brooks, Augie, and Lila (ranging in age from almost 4 years old to 3 months).

Living in Denver for 22 years now and enjoying all that Colorado has to offer. Still work in financing, mergers, and acquisitions for lower middle market companies, thinking of retirement sooner than later.

I retired about two years ago and am living happily in Perth, Western Australia, after a career as a geologist in the energy sector.

I retired in 2017, and Mary and I established residency in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, about a year ago (January 2020). That has worked out well as we can do more things outside during COVID.

Moving from Atlanta, Georgia, back to Austin, Texas in summer 2021.

Likely most of us have been looking at the same four walls and same screens for most of the past year — my family and I have been fortunate that we have plenty to do, even in quarantine.

Heard from Hill Michaels that he has moved into the senior living community of Blakehurst in Towson. “Plenty of Gilman folks here.”

Peter Ness has been one of our more loyal classmates in terms of keeping up with Gilman and our class.

Ralph (Merrill) Lincoln writes from New Castle, New Hampshire, that he and Jane are healthy and still enjoying sailing in the Cape Cod area when weather permits.

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.”

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.

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.

George Dowell writes from home in St. Louis, where he is still practicing psychiatry three days a week, usually remotely.

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.

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.

After 20 years in the environmental field, I switched careers to fulfill my childhood dream of becoming a professional pilot.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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”...

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Prem Kumta recently co-hosted a virtual event to support Andrew Yang in his bid for mayor of New York.

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. 

On Monday, January 18, William Calvin Chesnut Barnes passed away at the age of 80 at a memory care facility in The Villages, Florida.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fred Lohr wrote to us from London where he is working for Legg Mason.

Charlie Neer was happy to report that while living in Philadelphia he has been organizing “Scotch-o-clock” with his neighbors.

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.

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.

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.

Steve Howard is a partner in the venture along with other Gilman alumni.

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.

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.

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.

We have a positive report from Duane Chase about his prostate surgery.

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.

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.

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.

Bill Beatson kindly hosted a Gilman luncheon with Henry Smyth in Palm Beach in February

Jane and George Hardy celebrated their 50th anniversary recently. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tim Rumberger continues in his role as world languages department chair for Mashpee Public School in Mashpee, Mass.

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.

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?

Bobby Greenfeld is patent counsel at Steptoe & Johnson in New York.

Former classmate Bill Slaughter is working for Weatherby Healthcare of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., as a consultant in pediatric subspecialties.

Craig Rocklin continues in his role as a fundraising consultant for his own firm, Maybe it is Rocket Science!

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.

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.

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.

Michael Sarbanes is now a science teacher at Green Street Academy, a charter school in Baltimore.

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.

As many of you know, Chuck Wilder passed away in April 2019. 

Loving living here in Perth, Western Australia, with Leanne and our family.

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.

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.

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.

Joe Carroll reports that he is safe and healthy living in Greensboro, N.C.

Chris Patterson is very active on social media living in Australia.

Bill Senft and Louise’s oldest daughter, Paula, was married last fall.

Marietta and George Kelly have been splitting their time between Denver and Baltimore.

Robin and I have been social distancing in Bethany Beach, where we are usually found these days anyway.

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.

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).

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.

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.

John Zentz’s daughter, Allison, graduated from TCU this spring.

Steve Snyder’s daughter graduated from James Madison this spring. The proud father posted some pictures on Facebook.

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.

First, and most important, was the tragic loss of our class act brother, Henry Galleher, in July of 2019.

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.

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

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.

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.

Bob Rich and his wife, Joan, are involved and Zooming with their families, including eight grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren, with another on the way.

Holland Wilmer continues his law practice although his work time has eased back to four days a week.

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.

Gough Thompson and Irene continue to enjoy their Rancho Santa Fe home, its natural setting, and bird life.

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.

I’m still teaching at Butler as a professor in dance (since 2004).

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.

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.

...still in Baltimore, and now is raising two daughters with his wife, Catherine Pierre.

Still living in south Florida just below West Palm Beach.

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.

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.

The Carroll family is thankfully non-remarkable while navigating the new reality.

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.

Betty and I are sequestered in our homes like many others. Both of us are fortunate to be able to work from home.

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.

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.

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!

Alec Riepe during the last year has learned Italian, picked up archery, took online courses in multiple disciplines and read at least one book every week. Just kidding. With two small children he survived by drinking what would normally qualify as excessive, but in 2020 counted as drinking appropriately.

Brian Margarine and his wife, Brooke, with their children, Victoria (11), Parker (10), and Scarlett (7) got a puppy named Jax.

Clayton Apgar and his wife, Kate, and son, Cal, are looking forward to a move to San Diego in spring 2021!

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.

Andrew Wooten’s life in the ‘Big Easy’ has changed and Mardis Gras will always be different post-COVID.

Matt Garrity has mastered the art of installing car seats in rental cars to enjoy hiking or ski days outside Manhattan.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gene de Juan has been dealing with chronic pelvic pain for eight months and had to take a break from medical school.

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.

David Sandler and his wife had a baby in September (their first).

Alan Woods’ wife, Staci, who is exceptionally gifted, is slowly adding to her business, attempting to conquer the criminal justice system in Maryland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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).

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.

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!

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.

Hello everyone — It’s really amazing what my classmates have done! At the moment I am enduring the COVID pandemic just like everyone else.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Great to hear from everyone; the Jerveys are well,shivering in fear in the basement of our house in Bethesda

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.

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.

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.

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.

Another journey comes to an end as I completed my MBA from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

Jim Lynn proudly announced the birth of his first grandchild, Declan James Feeney, born last November.

Mac Finney continues his essential work keeping us in Baltimore informed, as he files news stories and broadcasts remotely out of his car.

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.

Ben Stallman, still happily living in York, Pa., among family and longtime friends, informs us that his life is full and sweet.

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.

Bert Muecke wrote in raving about the recent trip he and Tania took to Oregon.

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.

Speaking of walking the neighborhood, Tony Carey and Ellie are still ensconced at home in their stylish townhouse near the Baltimore Inner Harbor.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

Last year I took the plunge, and bought the ‘retirement home’ down in the warmer climes of central Florida. 

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.’”

Garrett Waters’ evangelistic forays and recent sermonizing coincide with his “working part time at present, and thus, have some money to pay my necessities.”

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.

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!

Charlie Steinberg tallied that this spring marked “the 44th anniversary of our Encounter projects — and mine is beginning its 45th year..."

Angus Finney and his wife, Allyson, were preparing to move to Table Rock Lake, Mo., later this year.

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.

No thoughts of retiring from my law practice and civic activities yet. Katie and I are doing more traveling.

Hi everyone, it’s so good to hear from all of you! Sit down, folks, because I have a lot to tell you.

Charlie Bradford and his wife, Sue, in retirement, enjoy living in an old family farmhouse on 40 acres in Marshfield, Mass.

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.

He has been caring for his wife, Betsy, who has suffered with Alzheimers for 15 years.

George Shriver passed away in a retirement home in Tucson, Ariz., on April 24, 2020.

Our Pacific Northwest classmate and lacrosse-legend-turned-treefarmer, Sam Sadler, had this to report...

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.

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.”

John still pursues his great love of sailing, but no longer as a skipper.

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.

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...

Next summer, when we finally get through this pandemic, I am supposed to hike the Coast to Coast Path (across northern England) with an old friend from McDonogh ’68...

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.

Rob Demeule is a civil engineer at Huitt-Zollars in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Rob Mendelsohn is a senior software engineer at Neurala in Boston.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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!

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!

I live in Manhattan with my wife, Georgia, and my two boys, William (18) and Robert (16).

I am living (and now working) in Bethesda, Md., with my wife and three kids (two of whom were in college before COVID).

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.)

My wife, Megan, and I live in Annapolis with our three kids.

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.

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.