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Community to Celebrate Founder's Day
The McDonogh School community will observe Founder's Day on Wednesday, October 8 at 11 a.m. around the John McDonogh monument. The solemn, half-hour ceremony allows students to honor the school founder by placing flowers on his grave. Along with John McDonogh, the community remembers its recently deceased alumni.
In the will of John McDonogh are major bequests to Baltimore and New Orleans for the education of children, particularly the disadvantaged. In New Orleans, the bequest became a foundation for the public school system; in Baltimore, which already had many good public schools, the bequest founded one of McDonogh's special interests: a school farm, from which the present McDonogh School evolved.
For remembrance of his philanthropic kindness, John McDonogh asked only “that it be permitted annually for children to plant and water a few flowers around my grave.”
First buried in Louisiana, John McDonogh’s body was later moved to Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore. In the early days of the school, the cadet corps marched to the McDonogh station, rode the train to Union Depot, and marched to Greenmount Cemetery for the commemoration. It was a noted annual event.
Since the moving of the grave and the monument to the McDonogh campus in November of 1945, the decoration service has been held here. At one time, each student personally placed a flower at the base of the monument. The ceremony has taken its present form since the early 1970s.
The McDonogh School community will observe Founder's Day on Wednesday, October 8 at 11 a.m. around the John McDonogh monument. The solemn, half-hour ceremony allows students to honor the school founder by placing flowers on his grave. Along with John McDonogh, the community remembers its recently deceased alumni.
In the will of John McDonogh are major bequests to Baltimore and New Orleans for the education of children, particularly the disadvantaged. In New Orleans, the bequest became a foundation for the public school system; in Baltimore, which already had many good public schools, the bequest founded one of McDonogh's special interests: a school farm, from which the present McDonogh School evolved.
For remembrance of his philanthropic kindness, John McDonogh asked only “that it be permitted annually for children to plant and water a few flowers around my grave.”
First buried in Louisiana, John McDonogh’s body was later moved to Greenmount Cemetery in Baltimore. In the early days of the school, the cadet corps marched to the McDonogh station, rode the train to Union Depot, and marched to Greenmount Cemetery for the commemoration. It was a noted annual event.
Since the moving of the grave and the monument to the McDonogh campus in November of 1945, the decoration service has been held here. At one time, each student personally placed a flower at the base of the monument. The ceremony has taken its present form since the early 1970s.