Gilman School history

It moved to Roland Park in 1910.

The Open Air School experiment, begun 1911 in response to contagious diseases prevalent at the time, ended with no dissenting votes.

The first issue of The Gilman News comes out on January 13, 1914.

When Gilman began to integrate in the early 1960’s, support came primarily from a small number of individuals at the school who possessed great power.

When Willard Wiggins first set foot on the Gilman School’s campus in the summer of 1964, it all felt “somewhat overwhelming,” he said.

The first Asian student, Raymond Buck-Lew, graduated in 1965, three years before Wiggins, Simms, Emery, who is deceased, and Robinson, who could not be reached.

And in 1968, they both graduated — making them and their two black classmates, Greg Emery and David Robinson, the first black alumni in the history of the private independent boys’ school.

Finney, R. C. S. (1969). Challenge of the Future.

He took over as director of Gilman Upward Bound, one of about a dozen programs nationwide and the only in Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland run by a high school, in 1970, a position he held for 31 years.

Holley began at Gilman as a 7th grader in 1971.

The first coordinated classes began with Bryn Mawr during the 1973-74 school year.

In fact, his 1982 book, The Miracle of Dunkirk, reappeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list this past summer, enjoying a resurgence resulting from interest piqued by Dunkirk, the movie.

The "tri-school community," so ingrained in the Gilman of today, fully blossomed in 1987, when Roland Park joined the coordination effort.

Speede-Franklin, W. (1988). Ethnic diversity: Patterns and implication of minorities in independent schools.

Cookson, Jr., P. W. & Persell, C. H. (1991). Race and class in America’s preparatory boarding schools: African Americans as the “outsiders within.” The Journal of Negro Education, 60(2), 219-228.

Klingaman, M. (1992, April 5). After 24 years, Headmaster Finney is heading off into the sunset.

In 1995, the Walter Lord Library is dedicated in John M. T. Finney Hall, the new middle school building.

One such student was Rodney Glasgow, now a noted diversity activist in the independent school world, who graduated in 1997 after seven years at the school.

Greene, who retired in 2001 as Assistant Headmaster, pushed the School to take crucial next steps to ensure that boys from high-poverty families and families of color would not just enroll, but flourish, as part of Gilman’s community.

Examining centrality, the extent to which a person defines their self-concept through a particular role, of African American athletes, Tony Brown et al. (2003) found that on racially-integrated teams, “athletic identity centrality may supersede or be discordant with racial identity centrality” (p.

A new era begins when boys return to Carey Hall on December 10, 2007, after an 18-month, $15 million renovation.

Eight months later, in September 2008, the Lumen Center opens.

No, don’t blame the school' (Greene, 2011).

In 2013, crime statistics ranked Baltimore as the seventh most dangerous large city in the United States on various national charts.

Evitts Dickinson, E. (2014). Roland Park: one of America’s first garden suburbs, and built for whites only.