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John T. Grega Endowed Teaching Chair Announced
Remarks by Headmaster Bo Dixon
The establishment of endowed teaching chairs is the single most important step we can take to enrich McDonogh’s academic community and ensure the future quality and stability our faculty. We currently have four endowed chairs: The Raymond B. Oliver ’40 Chair, The Howard C. "Dutch" Eyth Chair, The Thomas R. Harper ’63 Chair, and the Rollins Luetkemeyer Chair.
I am pleased to announce today McDonogh’s fifth endowed teaching chair. This chair will be funded by Vernon Wright ’61, his wife Lucy, and their two children Dudley ’88 and Katherine. In his letter to the school informing us of his family’s commitment, Vernon writes "[we] are pleased to honor an individual who has touched the lives of so many people. [He] is able to connect with the students of every [division] and to make them understand the role that they can play in the community and work place. If John McDonogh were alive today I truly believe that he would recognize [this teacher] as the kind of leader that would make the ‘real difference’ in the lives of so many people."
This new chair will honor a teacher who arrived on campus in 1981. With compassion and sincerity, humor and lack of pretension, he has brought the best out of his students during his McDonogh career. He is a man for whom the process of teaching is not confined to the classroom.
Although he is a department of one, he wears many hats on campus. Armed with six academic degrees, he is the only faculty member whose responsibilities touch students in all grades.
With an engaging passion, he teaches world religions to eighth-graders and an eclectic mix of electives—everything from mythology to political philosophy to baseball literature—to upper schoolers.
With a commitment to community service, he has made thousands of ham sandwiches with the help of lower school friends for a local soup kitchen and galvanized campus-wide support for the annual Holiday Project that provides food and Christmas gifts for as many as 125 impoverished West Baltimore families.
With a strong belief in God, he has served as the moral and spiritual leader of the McDonogh family for the last twenty-two years.
To quote Noreen Lidston: "[This teacher] is a man who makes and honors commitments. His value system infuses everything he does….He is a role model for strength of character and integrity."
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with admiration and gratitude that I announce the establishment of the John T. Grega Endowed Teaching Chair.
Remarks by Headmaster Bo Dixon
The establishment of endowed teaching chairs is the single most important step we can take to enrich McDonogh’s academic community and ensure the future quality and stability our faculty. We currently have four endowed chairs: The Raymond B. Oliver ’40 Chair, The Howard C. "Dutch" Eyth Chair, The Thomas R. Harper ’63 Chair, and the Rollins Luetkemeyer Chair.
I am pleased to announce today McDonogh’s fifth endowed teaching chair. This chair will be funded by Vernon Wright ’61, his wife Lucy, and their two children Dudley ’88 and Katherine. In his letter to the school informing us of his family’s commitment, Vernon writes "[we] are pleased to honor an individual who has touched the lives of so many people. [He] is able to connect with the students of every [division] and to make them understand the role that they can play in the community and work place. If John McDonogh were alive today I truly believe that he would recognize [this teacher] as the kind of leader that would make the ‘real difference’ in the lives of so many people."
This new chair will honor a teacher who arrived on campus in 1981. With compassion and sincerity, humor and lack of pretension, he has brought the best out of his students during his McDonogh career. He is a man for whom the process of teaching is not confined to the classroom.
Although he is a department of one, he wears many hats on campus. Armed with six academic degrees, he is the only faculty member whose responsibilities touch students in all grades.
With an engaging passion, he teaches world religions to eighth-graders and an eclectic mix of electives—everything from mythology to political philosophy to baseball literature—to upper schoolers.
With a commitment to community service, he has made thousands of ham sandwiches with the help of lower school friends for a local soup kitchen and galvanized campus-wide support for the annual Holiday Project that provides food and Christmas gifts for as many as 125 impoverished West Baltimore families.
With a strong belief in God, he has served as the moral and spiritual leader of the McDonogh family for the last twenty-two years.
To quote Noreen Lidston: "[This teacher] is a man who makes and honors commitments. His value system infuses everything he does….He is a role model for strength of character and integrity."
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with admiration and gratitude that I announce the establishment of the John T. Grega Endowed Teaching Chair.