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Gladys Woolford Winter, 1941
If music be the food of love, play on!
1941 Quid Nunc
Gladys Woolford was a lifer at Roland Park Country School entering in Kindergarten. She was known as the "class brain-child" and had a knack for "always saying the right thing at the right time." She was a noted piano player, a valued member of the Glee Club and was named Most Emotional in her yearbook. After graduating from RPCS in 1941, Gladys earned a bachelor's degree in three years at Swarthmore College.
Gladys returned to RPCS after college to join the faculty teaching Latin and art history. She served as President of the Alumnae Association and served on the Board of Trustees from 1949-1953. She rejoined the Board from 1994-2000. Her husband, The Honorable Harrison L. Winter, also served as an RPCS trustee.
Gladys had a lifelong love and appreciation of music and the arts which was cultivated and fostered at RPCS. She shared this love with her two daughters as they were growing up. Gladys and Harrison were opera lovers who travelled the world for their passion. One of their daughters shares their love of opera while the other is passionate about theater. Gladys was also a graduate of the Peabody Conservatoryand both of her daughters learned to play the piano.
In 1998, Gladys' daughters, Barbara Winter Glauber, 1968 and Anne Winter West, 1981, also lifers at RPCS, created an endowment as a 75th birthday gift to their mother. Gladys added to it a few years later in honor of the School's Centennial. In a recent interview Anne shared, "We all felt that RPCS provided the best opportunity to get a solid educational foundation and we all had a stake in the School." Anne continued, "When I got to Brown I was ahead of the game – I could write a term paper, knew how to conduct research and how to organize notecards."
The establishment of the Gladys Woolford Winter, 1941 Scholarship Fund recognized the importance of the School and all of the lifelong friendships made at RPCS for both Gladys and her daughters, and also as a way to help others. "We were given so much," said Anne, "we wanted to give back to the School and say thank you." The scholarship fund provides financial assistance for qualified and commendable students from Baltimore who would not otherwise have the opportunity to attend RPCS.