Gilman School

In a breathtaking performance, Rasheed Sparks and Jimmy Fields sent Morgan State to its most productive game in almost a decade yesterday.Sparks and Fields were little short of sensational yesterday as they combined for 65 points, 13 rebounds, 12 assists, two blocks and two steals in a 106-82 rout of Florida A&M in a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference game at Gilman School.The 106 points were the most by Morgan since the 1991-92 season, when the Bears lost 140-110 to Loyola Marymount.Sparks, a slender 6-foot-3 senior slasher with a soft touch, put on a devastating long-range shooting exhibition that carried him to a career-high 39 points and a single-game school record of eight three-pointers.

A Jewish teacher at one of Baltimore's most elite preparatory schools found a hate letter in his mailbox and a slur scratched on his department's door this week -- incidents to which students responded with rapid condemnation at a special assembly.Michael R. Himelfarb, who teaches English and heads the drama department at Gilman School in Roland Park, said he is sickened by the anti-Semitic note he received Monday, but heartened by the response from students and faculty of his alma mater.

Reginald Sidney Tickner, whose career as an educator at Gilman School spanned 41 years, died in his sleep Thursday at his Cedarcroft residence. He was 76.Mr. Tickner began his career in 1951 as teacher of English, geography and expository writing, and became an administrator and coach at the private school in North Baltimore.From 1951 to 1960, he taught English and was a football and wrestling coach in the Upper School. He was head of the Lower School from 1961 to 1970, and head of the Middle School from 1971 to 1980.

Nine private school students stood in a ring facing one another. Step into the circle, they were told, if you hear a statement that applies to you."Have you ever been followed around in a store?" Every black student stepped forward."Have you ever benefited from your appearance?" All the women -- black, Asian, white -- followed suit."Have you ever gone hungry because you couldn't buy food?"No one moved. The discussion began.The exercise, held at the start of a diversity conference held yesterday by area private schools, was designed to introduce the students to a basic concept often overlooked in civil rights discussions: privilege.

Anne Butler Dunn, 93, volunteerAnne Butler Dunn, a homemaker who was active in community affairs, died yesterday of congestive heart failure in her home at Roland Park Place. She was 93.Mrs. Dunn, who had resided at the North Baltimore retirement community since 1985, had lived for more than 50 years in the Woodbrook section of Baltimore County.She had served on the boards of the Children's Rehabilitation Institute, now Kennedy-Krieger Institute; the Women's Hospital of Maryland, now part of Greater Baltimore Medical Center; and Family and Children's Services.

Ludlow Hopkins Baldwin, a former Gilman School headmaster who brought diversity to the school and guided it through the turbulent '60s, died Friday of complications from a stroke at Roland Park Place Retirement Community. He was 92.A Baltimore native, Mr. Baldwin graduated from City College in 1921 and Gilman School in 1922. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's degree in archaeology from the Johns Hopkins University in 1947.A 1929 graduate of Harvard Law School, he practiced law for one week in New York City before he abandoned his legal career, returned to Baltimore and went to work for Terminal Warehouse Co. He served as president of the storage firm from 1936 to 1942.

A town meeting on education reform that is expected to draw national and local leaders will be held at 4 p.m. tomorrow at Gilman School."Urban Education in Crisis: Challenges and Choices" is sponsored by Gilman in partnership with Roland Park Elementary/Middle School.The meeting will be held in the Alumni Auditorium on the boys' school campus at 5407 Roland Ave. Tickets are $25.The forum is the third in a series sponsored by Gilman in celebration of its 100th anniversary.Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke will join state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick and interim Baltimore schools chief Robert Schiller and other local educators at the symposium.

DEMAND for private school education in Maryland continue to grow, sparking a surge of building on many campuses.A private school, from kindergarten through 12th grade, is planned for Finksburg, the first such nonreligious education institution in Carroll County. The Gerstell Academy, the idea of Sinclair Broadcasting executive Frederick G. Smith, aims to have 800 pupils on the 100-acre site.Built in stages (with the elementary school first), the private school plans to open within a few years.

Executive editor to leave Patuxent Publishing Co.Tom Graham, executive editor at Patuxent Publishing Co., is leaving to pursue other interests after 25 years with the company.Graham joined the staff of Patuxent's flagship newspaper, the Columbia Flier, in 1973.During his career, Patuxent grew from a company publishing one community newspaper to one with 13 Maryland weeklies, including the Towson Times, Owings Mills Times and Laurel Leader.Graham will remain with the company until the end of the year.

Coach: Chris Fuller, fourth season at Morgan State (28-54), 12th overall (173-153).Affiliation: Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.1997-98 record: 12-16 overall, 11-7 in MEAC.Radio: WEAA (88.9 FM).Arena: Gilman School (through Jan. 25); Hill Field House (5,000).Starters lost: Two.Tickets: $8 general admission, $5 faculty, $3 students. Call 443-885-3830.Best home game: Coppin State, Feb. 25. A packed Hill Field House should provide plenty of atmosphere in the regular-season finale for the cross-town rivals.

George A. Stewart Jr., a retired United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. executive and World War II veteran, died from multiple organ failure Aug. 16 at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 87. Mr. Stewart, the son of a prominent Johns Hopkins surgeon and a homemaker, was born in Baltimore and raised in Homeland. He was a 1939 graduate of Gilman School and earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1943. During World War II, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and fought with the 2nd Division in the Saipan-Tinian, Guam and Okinawa campaigns, and was a member of the occupation forces in Nagasaki.

Ralph N. "Bo" Willis, who owned a wholesale distributorship of automobile and truck parts, died of complications from pulmonary fibrosis Wednesday at his home at the Brightwood retirement community in Lutherville. He was 77. Born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington, Mr. Willis attended Friends School and Gilman School, where he helped the lacrosse team win three Maryland Scholastic Association championships and also played football and basketball. He was the C. Markland Kelly Award winner in lacrosse and was voted All-State by local sportswriters.

Charles Richard Gamper, a retired Gilman School teacher, athletics director and coach, died Tuesday of cancer at the Pickersgill retirement community in Towson. He was 89. He also headed the old Maryland Scholastic Association, the sports league that governed private, public and Catholic high school sports. "He was the quintessential teacher-coach," Gilman Headmaster John E. Schmick said. "He was a man of great principles and integrity." Born in Halethorpe and raised in Philadelphia, he played football at the Culver Military Academy in Indiana and earned an education degree at the University of Pennsylvania, where he played football on a team in an intercollegiate league for players weighing no more than 150 pounds.

Robert McLean III, a retired commercial real estate broker and Gibson Island resident, died of pulmonary failure Nov. 11 at Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The longtime Gibson Island resident was 80. Mr. McLean was born in Baltimore and raised on Park Avenue in Bolton Hill. He was a 1946 graduate of Gilman School. He earned a bachelor's degree in politics, history and economics from Yale University in 1950 and earned a master's degree in public administration from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969.

Margaret Oliver "Maggie" Feiss, a recent college graduate and volunteer, died Sunday of an epileptic seizure at her father's Locust Point home. She was 22. Ms. Feiss was born in Baltimore and raised in Lutherville and Cedarcroft. She graduated in 2004 from Bryn Mawr School, where she received the alumnae award for spirit. In May, Ms. Feiss earned a bachelor's degree in urban policy, planning and development from the University of Southern California. While at USC, she was a member of the Hellions of Troy, the women's flying-disc team, and had been logistics coordinator for the USC Relay for Life, which raised $89,000 for the American Cancer Society.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse was born and raised in Mount Washington, attended the Gilman School and went on to earn degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and Cornell University. He has taught at the Juilliard School since 1997 and this spring was named composer-in-residence at Peabody Conservatory. BSO music director Marin Alsop is an avid champion of Rouse's work. "History's 100 Greatest Composers" by Helen L. Kaufmann This book was published when I was a young boy who had recently decided to become a composer.

Hazel Butler was a little unsure about whether she should enter the hat contest. When you're 90 years old, you don't take such matters lightly. The contest, a signature event at the 91st annual Flower Mart yesterday, attracted the usual cheery mix of birds, butterflies, Ascot clones, Edwardian finery and Carmen Miranda fruit baskets to Mount Vernon Place. But the brimmed straw-weave number on Butler's head was infinitely more modest. "I don't know if I should," she said as her potential competitors swooped by, feathers fluttering, to line up at the foot of the main stage in the Washington Monument's shadow.

Watching from a New York street as the World Trade Center towers fell, Alex Yaggy knew his younger brother, Marine instructor pilot David Yaggy, would be among the first leading the country's response to the Sept. 11 attacks. "He was going into harm's way on our account," Mr. Yaggy said of his brother's tour of duty in Afghanistan. "I can tell you I was extremely proud of his service for our country, as someone who watched the World Trade Center collapse with my own eyes." Major Yaggy, 34, of Sparks, survived that duty and two tours in Iraq but was killed Friday afternoon on a routine training flight when his plane crashed near Ashville, Ala., about 60 miles northeast of Birmingham.

John E. Schmick has been appointed the new headmaster of the Gilman School, a private boys school in North Baltimore. Schmick, a graduate of Gilman's Class of 1967, has worked at the school in various capacities for the past 34 years, according to a news release. He began as a fifth-grade homeroom teacher in 1974. After teaching in the lower and upper schools, he served as director of admissions and financial aid, Upper School head, and assistant headmaster. Schmick, 59, of Lutherville, has served as acting headmaster since July, after the resignation of Jon C. McGill.

On January 5, 2008 RUTH REICHE SNEAD beloved wife of the late John Elwood Snead; dear mother of John Elwood Snead, Jr., Catherine Snead MacMurray and James Arrington Snead; dear grandmother of John Peyton Snead, David Ramsay Snead and Donald Hoos MacMurray III; dear great-grandmother of John Peyton Snead, Jr. and William Crosby Snead. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday 11:30 A.M. at Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presbyterian Church. Please omit flowers. Contributions may be made to Campaign for Gilman School, 5407 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, 21210 or Baltimore School for the Arts, 712 Cathedral Street, Baltimore 21201.