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School's Cum Laude Chapter Celebrates 50 Years
McDonogh School celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Cum Laude Society chapter on April 21 by inducting top scholars from the classes of 2005 and 2006 and acknowledging the chapter’s charter members from the 1955 faculty and senior class. McDonogh Headmaster Bo Dixon presided over the April 21 ceremony. Chicago business executive Martin Nesbitt, a former pupil of Dixon’s, addressed inductees with his inspiring personal story.
Those inducted from the junior class included William B., Adam B., Abigail C., Zachary G., Jordan L., Stephen M., Riva N., Grace O., Amy R., Benjamin S., Michael S., John T., Jeffrey W., and Stephanie W. New senior-class inductees included Harry A., Maria B., Katherine B., Mark B., Justin B., Joshua K., Thomas K., Logan McD., Anne N., Jennifer N., Matthew N., and Brian W.
Seniors inducted last year included Scott A., Jason B., Augusta C., Eric D., Julian D., Deanna E., Anna E., Chloe L., Elizabeth L., Michael L., Vikas M., Kimberly N., Joseph P., Tristram T., and Sarah T.
McDonogh’s Cum Laude chapter also elected a teacher, Director of Instructional Technology Tim Fish, into its membership.
After the new members were formally inducted, Nesbitt shared his perspectives on scholarship and learning. Nesbitt became tearful when describing how Headmaster Bo Dixon helped the inner-city scholarship student succeed in prep school at Columbus Academy. In 1977, Dixon was the new headmaster there and Nesbitt was a freshman.
"Between then and now, I’ve worked with and negotiated against some of the most brilliant minds in American business, studied under Nobel Laureates and helped set the political strategy for the first African American male to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction," Nesbitt said. "You see, academic and professional achievements are merely by-products of an ongoing quest for the truth and understanding. ... the rolling campus, the historic architecture and the traditions of an institution like this one, the same physical and social aesthetics that made such an impression on me 28 years ago on my first day of school at the Columbus Academy, are just shiny veneer on the surface of true scholarship. The real McDonogh, the real Harvard, or Yale, the real University of Chicago, the real Princeton resides in each of those individuals who work at, attend, or graduated from those institutions and share an insatiable urge to discover the truth."
One of 14 Maryland schools with a Cum Laude chapter, McDonogh has been a member since 1955. Cum Laude, modeled after the collegiate honor society Phi Beta Kappa, recognizes students for academic achievement.
McDonogh School celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Cum Laude Society chapter on April 21 by inducting top scholars from the classes of 2005 and 2006 and acknowledging the chapter’s charter members from the 1955 faculty and senior class. McDonogh Headmaster Bo Dixon presided over the April 21 ceremony. Chicago business executive Martin Nesbitt, a former pupil of Dixon’s, addressed inductees with his inspiring personal story.
Those inducted from the junior class included William B., Adam B., Abigail C., Zachary G., Jordan L., Stephen M., Riva N., Grace O., Amy R., Benjamin S., Michael S., John T., Jeffrey W., and Stephanie W. New senior-class inductees included Harry A., Maria B., Katherine B., Mark B., Justin B., Joshua K., Thomas K., Logan McD., Anne N., Jennifer N., Matthew N., and Brian W.
Seniors inducted last year included Scott A., Jason B., Augusta C., Eric D., Julian D., Deanna E., Anna E., Chloe L., Elizabeth L., Michael L., Vikas M., Kimberly N., Joseph P., Tristram T., and Sarah T.
McDonogh’s Cum Laude chapter also elected a teacher, Director of Instructional Technology Tim Fish, into its membership.
After the new members were formally inducted, Nesbitt shared his perspectives on scholarship and learning. Nesbitt became tearful when describing how Headmaster Bo Dixon helped the inner-city scholarship student succeed in prep school at Columbus Academy. In 1977, Dixon was the new headmaster there and Nesbitt was a freshman.
"Between then and now, I’ve worked with and negotiated against some of the most brilliant minds in American business, studied under Nobel Laureates and helped set the political strategy for the first African American male to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction," Nesbitt said. "You see, academic and professional achievements are merely by-products of an ongoing quest for the truth and understanding. ... the rolling campus, the historic architecture and the traditions of an institution like this one, the same physical and social aesthetics that made such an impression on me 28 years ago on my first day of school at the Columbus Academy, are just shiny veneer on the surface of true scholarship. The real McDonogh, the real Harvard, or Yale, the real University of Chicago, the real Princeton resides in each of those individuals who work at, attend, or graduated from those institutions and share an insatiable urge to discover the truth."
One of 14 Maryland schools with a Cum Laude chapter, McDonogh has been a member since 1955. Cum Laude, modeled after the collegiate honor society Phi Beta Kappa, recognizes students for academic achievement.