McDonogh School

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**McDonogh School**
Headmaster	W. Boulton Dixon
Founded	1873
School type	Private, coeducational
Location	Owings Mills, Maryland, United States
Enrollment	1289 students
Campus surroundings	Suburban
Mascot	Eagle
School colors	Orange, Black

McDonogh School is a private, coeducational, K-12, college-preparatory school located in Owings Mills, Maryland, USA.

1 History
2 Campus
3 Athletics
4 International Exchange
5 Notable Graduates
6 External links
7 Notes

The school was established near Baltimore, Maryland in 1873 and funded by the estate of John McDonogh, a former Baltimore resident, who died in 1850. The other half the McDonogh estate was used to found several public high schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, where McDonogh lived and worked.

Documents in the archives of McDonogh School include letters from his former slaves thanking John McDonogh (prior to 1850) for his program giving slaves the opportunity to work to buy their freedom and transportation back to Africa.

McDonogh was established as a semi-military school for orphans, who worked on the farm in exchange for their studies, room, and board. Tuition students arrived in 1922, and daily commuting students in 1927. In 1971, the military aspects of the school, which included uniforms, were relaxed. McDonogh was single sex education, boys-only, until 1975. Full and partial McDonogh scholarships continue to this date.

W. Boulton "Bo" Dixon has served as headmaster since 1992. Recently, the school chose Charles W. Britton, headmaster of the Casady School in Oklahoma City, to be its 12th head.^[1]

Over 800 acres, includes buildings for Lower (K-4), Middle (5-8), and Upper (9-12) Schools, a non-denominational Chapel, a performing arts center, athletic facilities, housing for some upper school students, and a corporate campus.
48-bell Carillon in the chapel, one of only two of this size in Maryland
Tuttle Gallery for student and professional art exhibits
Several large ponds, home to the annual cardboard boat race at the end of the scholastic year

The McDonogh Eagles compete in the Maryland Independent Athletic Association (MIAA). Their homecoming game is against century-old rival Gilman School's Greyhounds. On November 11, 2006, McDonogh defeated Gilman School in the annual McDonogh vs. Gilman game. The score was 22-16. Notable past athletes include Pam Shriver, professional tennis player/commentator, Eric King, defensive back for the Buffalo Bills, current Georgetown Hoyas starting forward DaJuan Summers, Brandon Erbe-top pitching prospect for the Baltimore Orioles, and current starting Wide Receiver for the University of Maryland Terrapins Darrius Heyward-Bey.

McDonogh School has an international exchange program with Seijo Gakuen High School, Tokyo, Japan. Each year 2 students from Seijo Gakuen High School attend McDonogh School for a year and McDonogh students attend Seijo Gakuen High School for 2 weeks every other year.

Every other year German teacher Buck Lyon-Vaiden also conducts an exchange with Faust Gymnasium, in Staufen, a town in the Schwarzwald Region. Up to twenty German students from McDonogh travel to Germany in late June and early July, and the students from Faust Gymnasium come to stay with their exchange partners for the month of October. This is, however, Herr Buck's last year teaching after 37 years at McDonogh so many do not know if this exchange will continue.

Joshua Hess, 2006, BMOC
Alex Feinberg, 2005, Star club lacrosse attackman and lifetime MVP at Dickinson
Brandon Erbe, 2005, Baltimore Orioles. Starting Pitcher. 2006 Top Ranked Organizational Pitching Prospect (organization's second overall prospect) by Baseball America. Ranked top overall prospect by Scout.com (InsideTheWarehouse.com).
Evan Taubenfeld, 2001, Sire/Warner Bros. recording artist, EMI professional pop staff songwriter. Avril Lavigne's lead guitarist from Spring 2002 to September 2004. Singer/Rythm Guirarist For The Black List Club.
Eric King, 2000, Defensive back for Buffalo Bills. Buffalo's only defensive selection in the 2005 NFL draft
Pam Shriver, 1979, a former professional tennis player and current sports broadcaster from the United States.
John R. Bolton, 1966, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
Joseph D. Tydings, 1946, a Democratic member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1965-1971.
Frederic N. Smalkin, 1964, Maryland's Chief Federal District Judge and Brigadier General ^[2]
Bruce Davidson, world champion equestrian, Olympic gold medalist
James McDaniel, 1976, actor, played Lt. Fancy on NYPD Blue