McDonogh’s annual Spirit Parade held the day before the football game against time-honored archrival Gilman, isn’t your typical parade. Sure, it has costumes, floats, bands, and more orange and black than imaginable, but it is also one in which spectators are participants and participants are spectators. The one-of-a-kind, double-self-enveloping spirit parade, designed by longtime faculty member Dave Harley, winds its way around campus and ends with an all-school pep rally.
For years, when Gilman hosted the game, the Eagles made their presence known when students, faculty, and alumni—a sea of festive orange and black—marched over the bridge from Bryn Mawr to Gilman led by drums, bagpipes, and, of course, Mr. Harley.
