In 2017, Georgetown Preparatory School began the silent phase of our Capital Campaign, which was then communicated in a public phase in November 2019. The campaign has focused on raising money for Prep’s Endowment, the building of a new Campus Center & Residence Hall, and enhanced athletic facilities including a new stadium at the historic Fegan-Galvin, S.J. field and soccer bowl and track facility on the north fields. As part of the For the Greater Glory campaign, specific fundraising efforts have supported the new facilities, including The Paro Family Plaza, the Lacrosse Wall, and The Steve Maczynski Fund.
The state-of-the-art stadium will be a great improvement for the School’s athletic programs and will be outfitted for football, lacrosse, and soccer. The building will include a new Game Day Plaza. The Dugan Track will be relocated to the renovated North Fields.
One of the greatest aspects of the new Campus Center and Residence Hall is the improvement of the faculty and staff apartments and accommodations. Currently, between Boland and Gunlocke Halls, there is about 4,500 square feet for the 22 members of our residential staff. The new building will increase that square footage to 14,940. This enhancement will allow us to develop and retain professionalized residential staff.
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Endowed scholarships at Georgetown Preparatory School help provide tuition assistance to talented students with financial need. The donors of these scholarships have made a significant investment to ensure that future generations of young men are able to attend and benefit from a Prep education. A named endowed scholarship requires a minimum contribution of $100,000 which can be payable over five years, with an initial gift of $20,000. These gifts are invested and only a portion of the interest is spent, providing a permanent source of income to the school. Scholarship funds support financial aid, which is awarded based on need. Other funds support faculty salaries, curriculum and campus maintenance.
Gifts of any size can be made to any of the funds. A complete listing of our endowed funds can be found here: Prep’s Endowed Scholarships.
This list represents gifts and pledges received since the onset of the silent phase of our For the Greater Glory Capital Campaign from 2017 to January 31, 2022.
The Fund will be used for financial aid to support a student or students who best reflect the way Abraham Pishevar ’14 lived his life. Pishevar Scholars will be exemplars of Georgetown Prep men demonstrating true leadership, fellowship, integrity and love for life. Pishevar Scholars will be living examples of the motto “Men for and with Others” for serving their communities, friends and family. To that effect, special consideration will be given to those applicants who display courage, determination and steadfast leadership, particularly in the face of obstacles.
Established in 1985, this scholarship is unrestricted with Prep’s Alumni Association as one of the larger donors.
Established in 2018, this scholarship is intended to defray tuition expenses and supplement the existing Abell Scholarship Fund which is to be “awarded to a student who is a minority Catholic and has some special talent, such as visual or performing arts, athletic, speaking ability, etc.”
Established in 1998 by David Straus ’70 and Jeffrey Ranta ’70 in loving memory of Betty B. Straus, mother of Harry ’68, David ’70, Christopher ’73 and Peter ’74.
Established in 1980, this scholarship is to be given to at least two students annually who are positively involved in student life and religiously committed. Special consideration to those of Irish descent is appreciated.
This Fund was originally funded by the Jesuits to benefit minority students. In 2017, memorial gifts for Gary Daum, a long-time fine arts faculty member, went to this fund at his family’s request as mentioned in his obituary.
In honor of their 50th Reunion in 2016, the Class of 1967 bonded together to raise unrestricted funds for Prep’s endowment.
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Created to honor the memory of Gregory Gannon ’68 who embodied the ideals of leadership, integrity, competence, conscience, commitment and compassion; a true Man for Others. The award recipient, a rising senior, must have both a demonstrated commitment to Christian service as exemplified by Gregory Gannon and a financial need. The award will be given in the form of tuition assistance and be announced during the Mass of the Holy Spirit and Convocation annually. Established in December 2018 in honor of the Class of 1968 50th Reunion.
Established in 2019 in honor of the Class of 1969 50th Reunion, the Class of 1969 joined their brothers in the Class of 1968 and contributed to the Greg Gannon Christian Service Award. Created to honor the memory of Gregory Gannon ’68 who embodied the ideals of leadership, integrity, competence, conscience, commitment and compassion; a true Man for Others. The award recipient, a rising senior, must have both a demonstrated commitment to Christian service as exemplified by Gregory Gannon and a financial need. The award will be given in the form of tuition assistance and be announced during the Mass of the Holy Spirit and Convocation annually. Originally established in December 2019 in honor of the Class of 1969 50th Reunion.
Established in 2018 and in honor of the Class of 1970 50th Reunion, alumni from this class created this scholarship to support the Washington Jesuit Academy students and other like schools.
The Class of 1971 joined together to raise funds for the endowment. All financial aid will be awarded to need based students. This was in honor of their 50th Reunion in 2019.
Beginning with the 2021-22 academic school year and to honor their 50th Reunion, the Class of 1972 created the scholarship to help defray the cost of attendance and boarding at Georgetown Prep on a need-based basis.
Beginning with the 2020-21 academic school year and to honor their 50th Reunion, the Class of 1973 created the scholarship to help defray the cost of attendance and boarding at Georgetown Prep for one or more graduates of the Washington Jesuit Academy, a District of Columbia school serving boys from low-income communities in grades four through eight.
Established in 2019 by Stephen Bujno ’78, this scholarship is unrestricted and was given in honor of the Class of 1978.
Established in 1991, this scholarship is in memory of Daniel J. Piliero II.
Established in 2018 by Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Flanagan and family, this scholarship is unrestricted.
Established in 2002, the Father Aloysius Galvin S.J. Scholarship Fund was created to honor Father Galvin and to award those students with financial need who Father Galvin would be proud to call men at Georgetown Prep.
This scholarship was a Raise the Paddle at the 2019 Gala. The scholarship will be presented annually to a deserving Georgetown Prep student who, in addition to academic achievement, demonstrates commitment to and engagement in the fine arts and who might not be able to attend Georgetown Prep for lack of means.
This Fund is for donations made as an unrestricted gift to the Endowment. Included are direct donations as well as those made in memory of deceased community members which, at the request of the family, were directed to the general unrestricted endowment fund.
Established in honor of Augustine J. Coupe, who retired in 1978 after 37 years of service as Prep’s athletic director, biology teacher and golf coach. Gus Coupe died in 1978.
Established in 2019, this scholarship is unrestricted in memory of Jeffrey L. Jones, Prep’s late Headmaster and President, who impacted so many.
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Established in 2019 by Mark ’77 and Linda Brown and family, this scholarship is unrestricted.
Established in 1986 by the Merkle Foundation, this scholarship is unrestricted.
Established in 2018, this Fund is used for financial aid to support a student or students who best reflect the way Michael M. Boland ’12 lived his life. Boland Scholars will be true exemplars of Georgetown Prep men demonstrating true leadership, fellowship, integrity and love for live. Boland Scholars will be living examples of the motto “men for others,” serving their communities, friends and family, both on the field and off. To that effect, special consideration will be given to those applicants who display courage, determination and steadfast leadership, particularly in the face of obstacles.
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Established in 2019, this scholarship is intended for a student in financial need whose ethnicity is latino/hispanic. Blessed Miguel Pro was a Mexican Jesuit Catholic priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elias Calles.
This fund was established with funds by an anonymous donor to provide for the daily maintenance and ordinary expenses of Our Lady of Lourdes Chapel.
Established in 2019 by Mr. and Mrs. Peter Plamondon and family, this scholarship is unrestricted.
Established in 2013, this scholarship is unrestricted and in memory of Prep’s belove teacher, Richard Drozd. The scholarship is awarded strictly on the basis of a family need.
Established in 2019, this scholarship is unrestricted and made by his son and daughter in law, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Barry ’94, in honor of Robert C. Barry, a long-standing faculty member at Prep.
Established in 1987, this scholarship is in memory of Robert L. Hall II ’45 and Robert L. Hall IV ’69. This fund also supports a graduation medal for Social Studies (Medal established in 1978).
Established in 2021, Rory ’78 and his wife, Nancy created this scholarship based on financial need.
This scholarship was created in November 2021 to honor the memory of Ruy S. Portugal, a member of the Georgetown Prep Class of 1949, who embodied the ideals of leadership, integrity, competence, conscience, commitment and compassion; a true Man for Others. He modeled his life after the Jesuit value and traditions. Georgetown Preparatory School’s mission “To Fit Him to Take His Place in the World as an Educated Catholic Gentlemen” framed Ruy’s success in life. It instilled in him the value of education and giving back. He aspired to provide young people equitable access to education. The initial gift to the Ruy S. Portugal ’49 Endowed Scholarship Fund for $100,000 was made by the Ruy S. Portugal Family Trust. This endowed scholarship will support a financial aid award given to a student who embodies the ideals of Ruy with preference to students who have a strong commitment to community service.
This scholarship was established in 2021 by Robert Hughes, Tim Hughes ’90, Brendan Hughes ’95, Bridget Hughes, and their spouses, as well as friends of the family. The Sandra Ann Hughes Scholarship was created to assist one student each year to attend Georgetown Prep. This student should come from a military or a former military family, with a preference for an active duty military family. This scholarship will better enable a military family to choose to send their son to Georgetown Prep.
This scholarship was established in honor of Sandy Hughes, an award-winning educator, who taught kindergarten at the St. Jane de Chantal Catholic grade school in Bethesda for more than 25 years. She was the devoted mother of two sons who graduated from Georgetown Prep and Georgetown University, and a daughter who attended Villanova University and became the mother of five. Sandy was also a military spouse, supporting her husband’s three-decade long career in the United States Air Force. Sandy’s life’s work, as a wife, mother, and teacher, reflected the very best of the Jesuit ideal – a woman for others. Sandy credited Prep with engaging her sons deeply in the Catholic faith, in Jesuit ideals, in a love of learning, in an abiding focus on family, friendships and community, and in caring deeply for others. Sandy passed from this world to the next on September 8, 2018.
Established in loving memory of Thomas Scott Cormack ’69 in 1988 by his parents.
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Established in 1984 by a bequest.