Gilman School

William Mc. Brewster, a retired Baltimore businessman and lifelong Brooklandville resident, died May 3 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 81. The son of the owner of the Baugh Chemical Co. and a homemaker, William McIIvaine Brewster was born in Baltimore and raised in Brooklandville. After graduating from the Gilman School in 1949, he attended Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1953. He later graduated from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

William Mc. Brewster, a retired Baltimore businessman and lifelong Brooklandville resident, died May 3 of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. He was 81. The son of the owner of the Baugh Chemical Co. and a homemaker, William McIIvaine Brewster was born in Baltimore and raised in Brooklandville. After graduating from the Gilman School in 1949, he attended Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1953. He later graduated from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

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After a seven-month search, the Gilman School has named a new headmaster. Henry P.A. Smyth, the school's assistant headmaster for the last two years, was unanimously selected to take over the position by the school's Board of Trustees after being recommended by a committee of alumni, trustees, parents and faculty members, the school said. The committee had worked with a consulting firm and conducted a national search to replace John E. Schmick, who announced in March his plan to leave the school at the end of this school year.

After a seven-month search, the Gilman School has named a new headmaster. Henry P.A. Smyth, the school's assistant headmaster for the last two years, was unanimously selected to take over the position by the school's Board of Trustees after being recommended by a committee of alumni, trustees, parents and faculty members, the school said. The committee had worked with a consulting firm and conducted a national search to replace John E. Schmick, who announced in March his plan to leave the school at the end of this school year.

Katharine Jackson Reese, a former Gilman School trustee who was active in Harford County educational and cultural causes, died of cancer March 25 at her Havre de Grace home. She was 87. Born in New Haven, Conn., and the daughter of John Day Jackson, former editor and publisher of the New Haven Register, she earned a degree at Sarah Lawrence College and studied piano in France in the 1930s. She and her husband of nearly 50 years, William B. Reese, a Coca-Cola executive and farmer, moved to Seven Springs Farm in northern Harford County in 1950.

Forty-two students at the Gilman School have been implicated in a drug scandal after a marijuana bust Friday that has shaken the Baltimore institution catering to the children of the city's elite since the last century.The school's headmaster, Archibald R. Montgomery, said yesterday that some of the students came forward on their own and others were discovered during an internal investigation that led them to a student's locker and a small film canister filled with marijuana."It is an unhappy time at the Gilman School," Mr. Montgomery said.

James C. Pine, who was believed to be Gilman School's oldest living graduate and who taught there for more than 40 years, died Thursday at the Heron Point retirement community in Chestertown. He was 101. Mr. Pine's philosophy of hard work and discipline helped shape Gilman's reputation, according to fellow teachers. He was head of the history department and director of the public speaking program for much of his tenure there. "I learned as much from him about the art and craft of teaching as any other person," said Redmond Finney, who began as a young teacher under Mr. Pine's tutelage and went on to serve as the school's headmaster from 1968 to 1992.

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.

They came from Paris, Hong Kong and all neighborhoods of metropolitan Baltimore to celebrate 100 years of learning at Gilman School.Yesterday, as bagpipers solemnly led a parade of Gilman alumni to the stately private boys' school's Roland Park campus, hundreds of graduates tipped their hats to the institution in a spirited birthday tribute marked by rowdy cheers, sweet memories and emotional reunions.Centered under a white tent nearly the size of two football fields, the school's centennial weekend called about 2,000 Gilmanites back to the Colonial red-brick campus to pay tribute to past educational successes and toast future endeavors.

For once I agree with Marta Mossburg, that something needs to be done about Baltimore City public schools ("Baltimore City schoolchildren deserve a real choice," Sept. 12). But I'm very curious where she came up with the numbers she uses to push her idea for vouchers. Unless she's living in a very different world from Baltimore, her numbers just don't add up. She says that Baltimore City spends $14,711 per student, which she says is the third highest in the nation. That may be true, but then she follows it up by saying, "Private school costs are lower than public school costs" and that a voucher system would cost only $42,00 per pupil over a three year period.

The Bryn Mawr School and Gilman School have each agreed to pay $350,000 to Baltimore City to fund traffic-calming and streetscape improvements along Northern Parkway and Roland Avenue, which intersect near the two schools in the Roland Park area. Under the agreement, announced Wednesday, the schools will maintain the improvements that fall in the public right-of-ways on Northern Parkway between Roland Avenue and Boxhill Lane, and on Roland Avenue between Northern Parkway and Cold Spring Lane.

John E. Schmick, the Gilman School's headmaster, announced Wednesday that he will step down in July 2013 after a replacement is found. "It is a privilege to lead the school that I love for so many years. Even during my days as a student, a dream of mine was to be headmaster of Gilman," Schmick said in an e-mail message to the school community. When he was named, Schmick told the Board of Trustees that he would only stay for three to five years. He will leave after six years.

Gilman senior goalkeeper Andrew Harris has been chosen as the Maryland Gatorade Soccer Player of the Year for boys, according to an email from Tim Holley, the school's director of athletics. Harris, the 2010 All-Metro Player of the Year, recorded 15 shutouts this fall in leading the Greyhounds to the MIAA A Conference final. He is a two-time All-American, has trained with the national team and will attend Wake Forest on a soccer scholarship. In his email to Harris -- which was also sent to The Baltimore Sun -- Holley calls the keeper "without question, the best player in Gilman School history.

Richard K. "Dicky" Marshall, a former Gilman School teacher and coach who was also a World War II veteran, died Oct. 5 of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Mercy Ridge retirement community resident was 87. The son of physicians, Mr. Marshall was born in Baltimore and was raised on Deepdene Road in Roland Park. After graduating from Gilman School in 1942, he attended Princeton University for a semester before enlisting in the Army Air Forces. Trained as a navigator, he was sent to England, where he flew several missions with the 8th Air Force.

Six faculty members at Gilman School are participating in Swim Across America's "open swim" Sept. 18 to raise money for cancer research and to honor family members who are fighting or died of cancer. The faculty members are Carl Ahlgren, director of college counseling and a history teacher; his wife, Kristin Ahlgren, a lower school library assistant; Ned Harris, academic dean and a history teacher; Patrick Hastings, an upper school English teacher; Rob Heubeck, an upper school history teacher and technology coordinator; and Jim Morrison, an upper school science teacher, according to Gilman spokeswoman Jodi Pluznik.

The headmaster of Gilman School has abruptly stepped down after it was discovered that he falsely claimed membership on a university hockey team on his resume and in discussions with school officials before his hiring. Jon C. McGill, who has served as headmaster since 2001, resigned from the private all-boys school in Baltimore last week after an annual evaluation revealed the false claim, according to separate statements released Friday by McGill and the school's board of trustees. "It came to light that there were misrepresentations on his resume and in his early discussions with Gilman having to do with his intercollegiate athletic participation," Charles C. Fenwick Jr., president of the board, wrote in a statement that was posted on the school's Web site.

The headmaster of one of Baltimore's most prestigious boys schools said yesterday that he will resign next year, capping a tenure that has at times put him in the spotlight of controversy. Archibald R. Montgomery IV made the announcement less than a month after perhaps the most turbulent incident he faced in eight years as headmaster of Gilman School. Montgomery, 47, who will leave July 1, 2001, had decided last month to temporarily bar the noted Lancers Boys Club from campus in the wake of a student's allegation against its founder, Robert I. H. Hammerman, a retired Baltimore Circuit Court judge.

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