News and Events

At Gilman's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation on Thursday, January 16, a panel of two special guests — Mr. Bill Greene and Mr. Stuart Sims ’68 — spoke about their experiences at the School.

As part of its winter break tour, the Jabberwocks, the oldest a cappella group at Brown University, made a special visit to Roland Avenue in mid-January. Fifteen men and women, including four-year Traveling Men alumnus Anay Agarwal ’23, performed five songs for a captive audience of Lower School boys in grades 2–5 in the Stevens Room.

It had been more than two decades since Gilman's varsity swimming team bested McDonogh at a head-to-head rivalry meet, but the Eagles' long-standing win streak was broken on Thursday, January 9, with the Hounds leaving with a 105-65 cumulative win and several new individual school records.

When Peter Yang ’26 and Vivek Raghavan ’26 found themselves lost in a disorganized sea of Google documents, text messages, and emails as they collaborated to form a new Upper School club, they decided to create a solution. The productivity app they developed, called EcoGoal, won the Congressional App Challenge.

Gilman School is proud to announce it has been regionally and nationally recognized as one of the best all-boys schools in America by Niche, the country's leading college and school search platform, moving to the top all-boys high school ranking for the state of Maryland for 2025.

Twenty-five Upper School students participated in a two-day, hands-on entrepreneurial training program, the Startup Experience, in early December, which culminated in a "Shark Thank"-style pitch to a panel of judges. Nine ideas were presented, with PyroPack — a new material that better protects firefighters facing wildfires — taking the first-place spot. Throughout the experience, the student participants were fortunate to learn all aspects of starting a business with the help of their mentors — six of whom were Gilman alumni volunteers.

Laurel Snyder said she has been “working on a book every day for the last 42 years.” The author, who attended school in Roland Park where her book-writing journey began at the age of 8, visited Gilman’s Lower School students over four presentations on Wednesday, November 20.

In honor of Native American Heritage Month, John “Coyote” Vinson, a board member of the Baltimore American Indian Center, spoke with a group of Middle School boys.

Congratulations to the athletes and head coach who were named to the All-MIAA Conference for exceptional performance during the fall 2024 season.

Blas Falconer read several poems from his latest book of poetry, “Rara Avis,” at Upper School assembly. His writing touched on themes of fatherhood, both from the perspective as a father and a son.