Greensboro Day School Alumni

Greensboro Day School is proud to present the 2026 Alumni Service Award to Durant Bell ’98 in recognition of his outstanding leadership and dedication to Greensboro Day School. Durant’s service to GDS has spanned multiple leadership roles over many years. He served as Chair of the Alumni Board and was a member of the Head of School Search Committee that brought Dr. Tracie Catlett to Greensboro Day School. In 2019, he joined the Board of Trustees and is currently completing his final year as Chair of the Board. Congratulations, Durant!

Read more about Durant's service at https://bit.ly/4nZ1n1q

Greensboro Day School is proud to recognize Gail Isaacson Bernstein ’76 as the recipient of the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award. The Alumni Association established this award in 1991 to recognize alumni who demonstrate extraordinary service to their community, distinction in their profession, and meaningful contributions to society. Congratulations, Gail!

Read more about Gail's service at https://bit.ly/4dPbVvm

We are thrilled to announce that Jon Olin ’91 will be the 2026 Graduation Speaker. Jon is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kinlin Development, a franchise operations and real estate development firm focused on building and scaling consumer-facing businesses, particularly within the quick-service and automotive service sectors. Based in the Charlotte area, Kinlin Development is actively developing and operating Take 5 Oil Change locations across the greater Nashville market.

Read more about Jon at https://www.greensboroday.org/about/school-news/news-details/~board/school-news/post/jon-olin-91-is-2026-graduation-speaker

A nice tribute by the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame about Carlton Harris Jr. '76. 💚💛

Greensboro’s Carlton Harris Jr. (1958–1983) grew up playing tennis and was a highly ranked junior player from a young age through high school at Greensboro Day School. He also was a member of a state championship Bengal Tigers boys basketball team.

For four collegiate seasons he was a standout Notre Dame tennis player, who served as team captain, played No. 1 singles/doubles, and lead the Irish to a 20-3 record in his senior year (1980) in South Bend. At Notre Dame’s annual athletics awards banquet, the men’s tennis team’s player with the best backhand is presented the Carlton Harris, Jr. Award.

Harris was a graduate of Greensboro Day School’s Class of 1976, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary recently with a gathering of Carlton’s classmates. After five decades his name is still well known to GDS students. The main athletic field, completed in 1980, has been named in his honor. The annual Carlton Harris, Jr. '76 Award was endowed in memory of him, and this award is presented annually to GDS tennis players (boys' and girls' teams) who demonstrate outstanding leadership, sportsmanship, and dedication to their sport.

After graduating from Notre Dame, he later became a tennis teaching professional and World Team Tennis teammate of Hall Of Fame legden, Billie Jean King. In 1983, Harris was living in Chicago teaching tennis as a club professional when he became ill. He was diagnosed with leukemia and soon thereafter died at the age of 25. The Carlton Harris Pro of the Year award is presented annually in North Carolina in his memory.

Carlton was posthumously Inducted into the Guilford County Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.

Members from the Class of 1976 enjoyed catching up with their classmates during a 50th reunion luncheon in the new Center for Student Life and F.M. Kirby III Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. We are looking forward to the rest of our reunion celebrations and gatherings taking place this evening.💚💛

Congratulations to Greensboro Day School alumnus, Coach Justin Gainey!

Congratulations to Justin Gainey, Greensboro Day School Class of 1996, who has been named the Men's Basketball Coach for NC State University!

Homecoming in Raleigh: NC State to introduce Justin Gainey as men's basketball coach Wednesday Former Wolfpack guard and Tennessee associate head coach Justin Gainey will lead the NC State men's basketball program after the departure of Will Wade to LSU. NC State will introduce Gainey at a news conference on Wednesday afternoon.

Yesterday, we celebrated an incredible panel of Greensboro Day School authors for Women’s History Month, including two GDS alumnae, Anne Pace '10 and Cynthia Mae Hunt '19!

Thanks to Lower School Media Specialist Laura Hines, our preschool and lower school students enjoyed a day filled with book readings, signings, and workshops.

We’re grateful to Jenna Gilfillan, Kelly Sipe, Gwen Lowe, Anne Pace ’10, Katelyn Williams, and Cynthia Mae Hunt ’19 for sharing their time, talents, and stories, and don't forget to check out their books!

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