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No. 122 | Life & Learning
McDonogh’s first 100 years, in which the School functioned as a military institution, provided little opportunity for freedom of expression. In the 1970s as protests over the Vietnam War, civil…
No. 119 | Life & Learning
The first call for applicants to McDonogh School was on Monday, October 1, 1873. At the time, the criteria for admittance included the following: By 1881, the Board was facing…
No. 117 | Life & Learning
In 1891, an outbreak of Typhoid fever, traced to a contaminated well, forced the School to shut down for almost a month. Eight years later in 1899, the School closed…
No. 113 | Life & Learning
In 1994, then Head of Lower School Noreen Lidston challenged lower schoolers to read a certain number of books before the start of school. If they met the goal, they…
No. 108 | Life & Learning
Character CompassDesigned in 2009, the Character Compass symbolizes the foundational tenets of the McDonogh philosophy and provides a shared sense of direction for every child and adult who is part…
No. 110 | Life & Learning
For nearly two decades, a passionate group of teachers worked to memorialize the men, women, and children whose labor contributed to John McDonogh’s wealth—the very wealth that led to the…
No. 99 | Life & Learning
At one time there were five ponds on campus, some of which were natural and the others created for stormwater runoff. The most well-known pond is the site of the…
No. 95 | Life & Learning
“One of the main ingredients in the spirit of a school is the cheering of the student body while in the stands,” stated an editorial in the October 29, 1943,…
No. 94 | Life & Learning
For nearly 100 years, the Lower School has been guided by the motto, “Be the Best of Whatever You Are,” derived from a poem of the same name by Douglas…
No. 92 | Life & Learning
“During the winter, sledding was clearly the activity the boys enjoyed most. The favorite places for sledding were Shell Road and Chapel Hill, and by popular acclaim, Flexible Flyers’ Racer-Racer…
Becoming McDonogh School tells the captivating story of McDonogh’s first 150 years.
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