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Harley Falls Short by a Neck in Tie Challenge
Upper school history teacher Dave Harley has long been known around McDonogh as an elegant dresser, a bastion of fashion sanity among the John Van Meters and Jeff Sanborns of the faculty.
With the exception of Spirit Week, he abstains from the lurid plaids and garish fluorescents that pepper the outfits of other notable faculty dressers, opting instead for the classic slacks, button-down, and necktie combination.
It should come as no surprise, then, that over the course of his 43 years of teaching at McDonogh, Mr. Harley has accrued an extensive collection of ties.
The full extent of that collection was put to the test this year. After noticing soon into school that Mr. Harley had yet to repeat a tie, ninth graders Jake N. and Katie P. challenged him to go the entire school year wearing a new tie each day.
Though aided by the many snow days this winter, Mr. Harley failed to complete the task. He finally ran out of ties on Tuesday, May 25, with only three class days left in the school year. Mr. Harley’s entire class signed his final tie to commemorate the occasion.
Despite falling just short of his goal, Mr. Harley remains positive about the experience, which allowed him to reconnect with long forgotten ties that had been relegated to the spare closet. Not all found merry reunions, in particular a never-worn brown and pink diagonal striped tie that Mr. Harley called the ugliest tie he owns.
Perhaps this school year’s challenge will be integrated into the pantheon of Harley tie-related traditions, alongside his famous set of nudes ties, the thematic history and art-related ties he wears for relevant lessons, and his practice of buying a new tie to wear at each McDonogh graduation.
And as for his tie-wearing plans for the immediate future, Mr. Harley looks forward to wearing his traditional skull tie during next week’s exams as part of his ceaseless effort to boost student morale.
Upper school history teacher Dave Harley has long been known around McDonogh as an elegant dresser, a bastion of fashion sanity among the John Van Meters and Jeff Sanborns of the faculty.
With the exception of Spirit Week, he abstains from the lurid plaids and garish fluorescents that pepper the outfits of other notable faculty dressers, opting instead for the classic slacks, button-down, and necktie combination.
It should come as no surprise, then, that over the course of his 43 years of teaching at McDonogh, Mr. Harley has accrued an extensive collection of ties.
The full extent of that collection was put to the test this year. After noticing soon into school that Mr. Harley had yet to repeat a tie, ninth graders Jake N. and Katie P. challenged him to go the entire school year wearing a new tie each day.
Though aided by the many snow days this winter, Mr. Harley failed to complete the task. He finally ran out of ties on Tuesday, May 25, with only three class days left in the school year. Mr. Harley’s entire class signed his final tie to commemorate the occasion.
Despite falling just short of his goal, Mr. Harley remains positive about the experience, which allowed him to reconnect with long forgotten ties that had been relegated to the spare closet. Not all found merry reunions, in particular a never-worn brown and pink diagonal striped tie that Mr. Harley called the ugliest tie he owns.
Perhaps this school year’s challenge will be integrated into the pantheon of Harley tie-related traditions, alongside his famous set of nudes ties, the thematic history and art-related ties he wears for relevant lessons, and his practice of buying a new tie to wear at each McDonogh graduation.
And as for his tie-wearing plans for the immediate future, Mr. Harley looks forward to wearing his traditional skull tie during next week’s exams as part of his ceaseless effort to boost student morale.