Gilbert

After 14 years as Dunbar's baseball coach, Don Gilbert has decided to take a break. "I have decided to leave now and watch my son, who is a rising senior baseball college prospect player at Glen Burnie High School," Gilbert said. "I have not had the opportunity to see him play that much, so I need to leave coaching at Dunbar to do so. " The Poets went 17-1 this past season and ranked No. 15 in The Baltimore Sun's final baseball poll. Gilbert said it was his best "team" because it had "a little less talent, but great chemistry.

My son and I visited a small, private, reputable liberal arts college about 500 miles south of Baltimore during its "Welcome High School Juniors Weekend" a few months ago. We spent a beautifully orchestrated day interacting with so many students who looked exactly like us that it almost felt like we had been on a tour of The Sims University. Because this is my third and final child entering the college vetting process, I knew enough not to extol the school's merits or denigrate its shortcomings and risk prejudicing my son's impressions.

May 19, 2011 The boy approached the marble statue, gazing up - miles up, as he remembers it now - into the face of the benevolent figure it depicted. It was May 8, 1996, and Grayson Gilbert, 6, had a lot on his mind. A few months earlier, surgeons had found a tumor woven through his abdominal cavity like some malevolent clinging vine. They'd removed his gallbladder, half his stomach and 80 percent of his pancreas. Chemotherapy had taken his hair. And as he waited for a follow-up appointment with his doctors, the boy was leaving a personal note at the feet of the sculpture of Jesus that has graced the foyer below the dome at Johns Hopkins Hospital since 1896.

Maryland football coach Randy Edsall entered the season with a lot of question marks on offense, and sophomore quarterback C.J. Brown isn't making it easier for the first-year coach. Edsall said Brown has been playing well this spring, turning the heat up on incumbent starter Danny O'Brien . "C.J. Brown is putting pressure on Danny," Edsall said in a conference call with reporters Monday. "I like the things that he's doing. C.J. is a guy that does a good job in the huddle and can make plays.

Gilbert Clapperton, a clinical psychologist who established Loyola University's Department of Psychology more than four decades ago, died Dec. 29 of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The longtime Lutherville resident was 71. Dr. Clapperton, the son of an anesthesiologist and a homemaker, was born and raised in Lewiston, Maine. After graduating from Lewiston High School in 1957, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1962 from Bates College. He earned a master's degree in clinical psychology in 1963 from the University of New Hampshire, and a year later, his doctorate in the discipline from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Gilbert Ambrose Brungardt, a retired professor of music who had been chairman of the music department and later dean of Towson University's College of Fine Arts and Communication, died Wednesday of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 80. Dr. Brungardt, the son of cattle and wheat farmers, was born and raised on the plains of Western Kansas near Victoria. He was a 1948 graduate of St. Joseph's Seminary in Rensselaer, Ind. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1952 in music education from Fort Hays State College in Hays, Kan., and had served with the National Guard in the early 1950s.

Gilbert David is working on a comeback in show business. This octogenarian wants one more shot at the limelight. He feels certain some locals might recall him as "Mr. Fitness," a frequent guest on local TV shows 30 or more years ago. His neighbors in Northwest Baltimore still greet him with the stage name used when he chatted it up with Elane Stein and with Oprah Winfrey, when she co-hosted a talk show with Richard Sher on WJZ. "I know she...