Headmaster

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.

The Calvert School, a private day school with a nationally recognized homeschooling curriculum, will welcome a new headmaster in July, the school announced Thursday. Andrew Holmgren, currently the head of the Middle School at Collegiate School in New York City, will become the North Baltimore school's seventh headmaster. He will replace Andrew Martire, who has been headmaster of the Calvert School since 2004. Martire had accepted the job of Head of School at the Kinkaid School in Houston.

The Calvert School, a private day school with a nationally recognized homeschooling curriculum, will welcome a new headmaster in July, the school announced Thursday. Andrew Holmgren, currently the head of the Middle School at Collegiate School in New York City, will become the North Baltimore school's seventh headmaster. He will replace Andrew Martire, who has been headmaster of the Calvert School since 2004. Martire had accepted the job of Head of School at the Kinkaid School in Houston.

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.

Alexander Hamilton "Ham" Bishop III, a respected headmaster who led five independent schools during his lengthy career in education, died of kidney failure complications Saturday at Manor Care Health Services Dulaney. He was 85 and lived in North Baltimore. Educational colleagues said he was often sought out as a school administrator. In 1994, he was the first head of the Odyssey School, founded by parents of dyslexic children. "He gave the new school instant credibility," said Marty Sweeney, Odyssey's head.

William Waters Kirk IV, a Baltimore native and former headmaster of the Calvert School, died June 18 of Parkinson's disease. He was 91. "He took justifiable pride in the influential role he played in the development of thousands of young people," his son-in-law Jack Anderson wrote in an email. "His generation is often referred to as 'The Greatest,' and I would hold William Kirk up as an example of why it has been so recognized. " Mr. Kirk was reared by a widowed mother in the Walbrook neighborhood in West Baltimore.

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.

The headmaster of the Calvert School in North Baltimore will depart at the end of the coming academic year for a new position at a school in Houston, school officials announced Wednesday. Andrew Martire has been headmaster of the Calvert School, located in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood of Baltimore, since 2004. He has accepted the job of Head of School at the Kinkaid School in Houston starting next year. Both schools are private coeducational schools for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

The 1978 valedictorian of the Boys' Latin School in North Baltimore will end his career in military intelligence to become the school's new headmaster, the board of trustees has announced. Scott K. Gibson III, 42, a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, will assume the school's top post after headmaster M. Mercer Neale III retires in June. Neale has been headmaster since 1994. Gibson was unavailable for comment. He said in a statement that he wants to give back to his alma mater, which provided him and his classmates with "excellent classroom instruction" and "lessons in character."

Friends School of Baltimore has named Jon Harris, an administrator, teacher and coach at a suburban Philadelphia Quaker school, as headmaster, replacing W. Byron Forbush III, who is retiring after 38 years in charge of Baltimore's oldest school.Harris' appointment as the 213-year-old school's eighth headmaster -- and the first who is not a Quaker -- ends a yearlong nationwide search, the first conducted by Friends. His selection was approved by the Board of Trustees and announced to students, teachers and administrators this week.

The headmaster of the Calvert School in North Baltimore will depart at the end of the coming academic year for a new position at a school in Houston, school officials announced Wednesday. Andrew Martire has been headmaster of the Calvert School, located in the Tuscany-Canterbury neighborhood of Baltimore, since 2004. He has accepted the job of Head of School at the Kinkaid School in Houston starting next year. Both schools are private coeducational schools for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

William Waters Kirk IV, a Baltimore native and former headmaster of the Calvert School, died June 18 of Parkinson's disease. He was 91. "He took justifiable pride in the influential role he played in the development of thousands of young people," his son-in-law Jack Anderson wrote in an email. "His generation is often referred to as 'The Greatest,' and I would hold William Kirk up as an example of why it has been so recognized. " Mr. Kirk was reared by a widowed mother in the Walbrook neighborhood in West Baltimore.

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.

Alexander Hamilton "Ham" Bishop III, a respected headmaster who led five independent schools during his lengthy career in education, died of kidney failure complications Saturday at Manor Care Health Services Dulaney. He was 85 and lived in North Baltimore. Educational colleagues said he was often sought out as a school administrator. In 1994, he was the first head of the Odyssey School, founded by parents of dyslexic children. "He gave the new school instant credibility," said Marty Sweeney, Odyssey's head.

Edward Standish "Brad" Bradford Jr., a career educator who had been headmaster of Boys' Latin School during the early 1980s, died Thursday from complications after surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 83. The son of a businessman and a homemaker, Mr. Bradford was born and raised in Longmeadow, Mass. After graduating from Admiral Billard Academy in New London, Conn., he served in the Air Force during the Korean War. After being discharged from the service, he earned a bachelor's degree in 1956 from the University of Connecticut.

Dorothy R. "Dot" Lamborn, an educator who assisted her husband during his tenure as headmaster at McDonogh School, died of complications from a fall Sept. 20 at Bassett Healthcare, a Cooperstown, N.Y., hospital. The Potomac resident was 95. The daughter of a lawyer and a homemaker, Dorothy Rundle was born and raised in Pittsburgh. She was a 1934 graduate of Edgewood High School. Because her family owned a summer home at Sherwood Forest in Anne Arundel County, she enrolled at Goucher College, and then transferred to Stanford University, where she earned a degree in mathematics in 1938.

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.