Gilman School - Cynosure Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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r rlman Walls llrll Echo was wrlt the names Pnyx and Areopagus to the at the headmasters house by Mrs HFTIFTH XNNIL FR XRY CELl4BltNXTlON THE SUN BALTIMORE OCTOBER 4 1947 GlLlllAN HOLDS GOLDEN FETE Dmner By Alumm Marks 50th Anntversary Rcunmrs tcmxntstcnccs sktts last nt ht featured he gn ,lr 1 annrversary drnn:-r of the foundtng of the Gtlman Countrx School for Bows whtch opened a two day oh servance of the foundtng of the tn stltutton acknowledged to be the -t pmate country day school ln Amer :ca ltepmcsentatnes of each class graduated from the school smce tts bcgmntng were among the 350 of the 2000 alumm who gathered tn the Sheraton Belvedere Hotel Amr Of lnformallty There was at atr .lf complete tn formaltty as the old bots tn t somt for the ftrst ltme tn many tcats to recall the days that wcu There wcte veterans of World Wars I C onvocatron C lrmaxes C elebratr 'Vlovxng ln column some 1500 students and guests of the Gtlman Country School today hled across the Roland Park campus for the catton tn the gymnastum The convocation provtded a ch max for a two-day celebratton of the foundtng of the school m 1897 In the lead of the processton was the Stxth form Lommxttee the student governtng body followed by the other students faculty alumm trustees and spectal guests ' Lookung Forward Dr Malltcent Carey Mclntosh dean of Barnard College and Frank Ashburn headmaster of Brooks School Andover Mass were the pnnctpal speakers and dtscussed dttferent aspects of the theme of the convocatxon Gtlman Looks Forward Dean McIntosh who ts a mece of the late Francis Kmg Carey one nl' the ortgmators of the school :poke on Oppnrtuntttes of An ln dependent School whale Mr Ash hurton dtscussed The Responstbxlt ttes of an Independent School After the com ocatton all vrsitors gathered on a terrace behmd the mam butldtng for a buffet lunch They were to remam for a footbal game between the Gtlman tarstty and Severn School The celebratton began yesterday wtth an lnformal vtstt of a number of alumm who strolled around dur mg classes and mspected the regu lar datly routtne Later thev were recened at tea Speaker At Grlman School rges Spmtual Awaltemng Addresstng conyocatton cere momes at Gtlman Country School yesterday Frank D Ashburn urged a renewed emphasxs on sptrttual values ln educatton assertmg that lt affects even more phases of American soczety than does re llgxon. Mr Ashburn headmaster of Brooks School North Andover Mass was one of the pnnctpal speakers at the final event of a twoday program markxng the golden anntversary of the Roland Park mstxtutlon The other speakers were Dr Mtl hcent Carey Nlclntosh dean of Barnard College New York who emphastzed the necesstty of xnde pendent schools as centers for greater educattonal expenmenta tton and Corneltus B Boocock headmaster of Scarborough School Scarborough-on Hudson NY on At Gilman neglects any of these lexels faultv he added The goal ts not really knovxl edge tn the sense of possesston of facts but wtsdom m the sense of adaptabtltty through expertencc and cunsecratxon through under standmg of duttes and tdcals he went on It ts posstble that neyer tn htstory has such a htgh proportwn of a population been as educated as ln Amertca today Great gums have ensued therefrom wttncss thc amount of readmg done tn sp te of radto and the movtes and comtc strtps-and the mtercst tn every' form of art and the concern about natxonal and lnternattonal afiatrs And yet alongstde these i sorry ewtdence of anodmr sort The young and old are aimless ther are unsplrttual extravagant man- nerless They are convxnced that GILMAN WALLS WILL ECHO ffontxnued from page IJ a cohestye whole lt would be the ltfe and tnfluence of that great man Tak mg over the high command Just as tnlman was emerging from the Ar thurtan pertod of romance and sentl ment into the garish day of national prommence Dr Flnney gulded the desttntes of the school from regime to regime underglrdlng the whole structure with his nobility hls slmpllc tty and hrs forthright honesty It is a great hlstory of a great school Its errors are pardonable Its omissions are inevitable and not sertous Bradford Jacobs has caught the spirlt of the school ln remarkbale fashion He has been sensltlve to its variable tone He has handled dlfll cult and delicate situations with skill and diplomacy Gllman should b proud that one of tts own products has dug so fndustrlously and has dls- played hls treasures so attractively Following hard upon the highly suc, Gilman Walls Wtll Echo, Htstory of School Revtewed By Mr Ptckett, Former Master lMr Puckett ta now Headmaster of Cooperstown Academyl Henry H Callard wtfe of the head master Also on hand were the wtves of three former headmasters law Mules and Mrs Wallace B Ktrke the former Mrs E Boyd Morrow Last ntght 350 alumm gathered at the Sheraton Belvedere hott-l for a reunton banquet Accordtng to Nelson T Olfutt chairman or the dtnner tt was the largest r unton the school has ever had The prtnctpal speaker was Her bert E Ptckett a master at Gtlman lfor mant years and now headmas ter of Cooperstown Academy Coop- erstown lN Y Other speakers were Charles S Garland prestdent of the board of trustees Mrs Callard the headmaster and Dr Edward Stinson prestdent of the alumnt assoctatton Benchley Act As part of a mock program A Russell Slagle well known ac 'tor deltvered Robert Benchleys Treasurers Report Most amustng to all guests how ever was a serxes of sluts pen formed bv seteral students whrch portrayed yartous Gxlman personal mes famthar to all through the years One slut depleted a scene ln the headmasters office whtle he was recetvxng calls from vartous mem- bers of the faculty Another pot' trayed Edward T Russell Gxlmm wresthng coach mn the course ot wrestling match ten by an adoring alumnus To have tt reviewed by one whose absent heart grows fonder day by day of the school where he spent so many happy hours ts hound to result in a sort of dlstll latlon of sweetness Perhaps that ts emtnently approprtate to an opus which ls after all a part of the Flftleth Annttersary XVe came to pralse Gll man not to bury lt under any flood of crtttctsm To approach this book tn anv other splrtt would indeed be dlfllcult Hard To Compare It ts yery hard to compare Gilman llalls wtth any other stmtlar effort because school htstortes are written to be read by their frtends and are not lxkely to be known yery wtdely to others This revtewer has never al lowed hrs allegtance to wander to the perusal of any such work He does however feel very strongly that the Jacobs opus ts one of the tery best Thus admtsston ls wrung from one ptqued to find that there IS so much Gxlman lore unknown to htm The accuracy of the observations on the era whtch fell under these eyes war rants the assumptton that the mamder of the facts are as well founded t l clubs ln the lnterlm durlng which the reviewer wandered about conllrmlng his impression that the Gilman School was the best place ln America to teach The schism lasted for many wears during which as many hot de bates took place between the rlval or ganlzatlons They cvcn met ln separ ate rooms Joining only for term de hates and the final contest for the Finney Cup There are a few other minute mistakes vtslble only to the specialist ln any one of the held! covered so ably by the author School s Origin Mr Jacobs settles once and for all the questton of the ortgtn of the school He brings unto proper per specttve Mrs Carey Dr Gilman and the other Baltlmoreans who othclated at the btrth of the Country Day ldea Hts vtvid picture of the flnanclal vlclssltudes of the early and even the middle days ls good enough to cause a belated shudder to wrack the frame of a teacher of that period as he contemplates the thin ice on which hrs salary skated so often How ob- llvlous The Staff were to all the alarms without and ominous por tents Gilman s Headmasters 1 ' ' v - v , e i . . , 4 A A. ,J - 4 A U A I . 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