As of Summer 2016, Gilmour Academy completed seventy years of continuous service to the community. In the fall of 1946, first headmaster, Brother Theophane Schmitt, C.S.C., and the Brothers of Holy Cross admitted 45 boys to grades 8 and 9 as the first Gilmour students.
To celebrate this seventy-year occasion on June 4, 2016, the amateur station at the academy (ND8GA) ran a special event with operators Spencer Slaght, president, and Br. Ken Kane, moderator. Thirty-five stations in 18 States responded. The station log is attached below.