Mcdonogh School

John Edward "Ted" Savage Jr., an accomplished jazz musician who had been a teacher at McDonogh School and a sporting goods salesman, died of heart failure Thursday while playing golf in Kansas City, Mo. He was 53.The Baltimore native graduated from McDonogh in 1957 and from Amherst College in 1961. He earned a master's degree in education from Johns Hopkins University and had been working toward another in marriage and family counseling at Luther-Rice Seminary in Atlanta.He taught in McDonogh's lower school from 1961 to 1966, becoming head of the lower school the last two years.

William Arthur "Bill" Seal III, a retired McDonogh School dean, faculty member, coach and dormitory parent, died of an apparent heart attack Monday at Carroll Hospital Center. The Reisterstown resident was 65. In nearly four decades at McDonogh, Mr. Seal taught lower school science and upper school psychology and history, guided the senior class, and coached soccer, lacrosse and wrestling. He was inducted into the McDonogh Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999 and received the Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award in 2007.

Catonsville resident Kyle Vaughan, a senior at McDonogh School, was recognized as a Commended Student in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Catonsville resident Kyle Vaughan, a senior at McDonogh School, was recognized as a Commended Student in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program.

Petite Laura Douglas was lugging filled trash bags almost as big as she is out of a basement storage room and onto the sidewalk along Calvert Street at North Avenue in Baltimore. "I'm strong," said Douglas, 15, a sophomore at McDonogh School in Owings Mills. "I can handle it." Two blocks away, at St. Paul and 21st streets, teacher Laddie Levy was supervising more than three dozen teen-agers filling a big metal bin with trash from an old aquarium supply store. "They're good workers," said Levy, an English teacher at McDonogh for 32 years.

Willis Keyes Lynch, a revered McDonogh School history teacher who directed its riding program for more than four decades, died Tuesday of heart disease at Carroll County General Hospital. The Hampstead resident was 95. Born in Alvon, W.Va., he grew up riding workhorses on his family's farm. Family members said an aunt, Guelda Lynch Day, who was a secretary for a member of McDonogh School's board, wanted a better education for her nephew than his rural area's one-room schools. She summoned young Willis and his brother Robert, who traveled by rail to Baltimore's old Walbrook Station.

A. Ogden Ramsay, who taught biology at McDonogh School for 44 years, died Monday of cancer at the Brethren Home in New Oxford, Pa. He was 95 and had lived in Littlestown, Pa. He was affectionately known by generations of McDonogh students as "Bugs," because the biology teacher made microscopic slides of insects from the pond at the Owings Mills school. Through-out his career, he studied animal behavior and published academic papers on the topic. "He was one of my most admired teachers.

In what is believed to be the largest single gift to a Baltimore-area school, the McDonogh School has received $6 million from the estate of a devoted alumnus.Michigan resident Clarence Burck, Class of 1928, named the school as the sole beneficiary of his trust. He died in November in Farmington Hills, Mich., at the age of 85. A widower with no children who called the school his "second love," Mr. Burck had no immediate survivors, school officials said."It's an absolutely thrilling gift, representing the extraordinary generosity of one man . . . and a lifetime of devotion to, and respect for, McDonogh's uncompromising commitment to excellence in all areas of school life," said McDonogh's headmaster, W. Boulton Dixon.

COLLEGE COURSES on the Internet. Final exams online. Every day, it seems, there's a new development, and the high-tech binge is no longer restricted to higher education. Laddie Levy, for example, is the first McDonogh School teacher to experiment with online examinations. Levy, an English teacher, posted an exam on the northwest Baltimore County independent school's e-mail system. Seventeen of 34 students volunteered to take the exam online. "My thinking was that these kids no longer use the keyboard to type.

It sounds like a principal's nightmare: a group of students making extensive changes to every aspect of a school's Web site. But faculty and staff at McDonogh School, an independent college preparatory school in Owings Mills, are thrilled. This was not a group of devious juvenile hackers, but the school's new Web gurus: students who wrote more than 150,000 lines of code to create a sophisticated new school Web site that launched yesterday, just in time for school. "We looked at the option of going outside" for a Web designer, said Headmaster Bo Dixon.

Prom season opens early at McDonogh School, with the invitation taking on as much import as the first dance step. One senior wrote a song, strummed his guitar and serenaded his girlfriend with a lyrical invitation to the event, set for Tuesday at Rams Head Live downtown. "I strolled around the library singing to people," said senior Dennis Chen. "Then I just pulled up a chair and asked Emma. " That would be classmate Emma Warden, who accepted her singing beau's well-orchestrated "ask," the students' term for these traditional invitations.

Barely three months ago, Catherine "Catie" Carnes and her friends were celebrating their graduation from McDonogh School. Now her classmates are heading back to the school to remember her. The 18-year-old was playing a friendly game of volleyball at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg on Wednesday when she collapsed, relatives said. She was taken to Gettysburg Hospital in Pennsylvania, where she died of a blood clot in the lung. "She was the light of my life," said Denise Carnes, her mother.

One first-grade class at a private school in Owings Mills has spent the year mastering the basics of primary academia and garnering a few lessons in hands-on charity. The 16 students at McDonogh School have made fleece blankets and put together hygiene kits that included wool socks for distribution to Baltimore's homeless. First-grader Mary Corrigan knows the value of an extra pair. "Your socks can get icky when they get wet," she said. The students fashioned colorful friendship pins and sold them for a quarter.

Robin D. Coblentz, a retired McDonogh School educator and editor who worked on the presidential papers of Dwight D. Eisenhower that were published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, died of lymphoma Jan. 2 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 78. Robin Donaldson, the daughter of an architect and a newspaper editor, was born in New York City and raised in Mamaroneck, N.Y. After graduating from Bellows High School in 1949, she earned a bachelor's degree from Goucher College in 1953.

Guy Ghingher A Memorial Service will take place on Monday, December 21, 2009 at 10:30 A.M. at the Tagart Memorial Chapel, McDonogh School, 8600 McDonogh Road, Owings Mills, Maryland 21117.

Philip H. Lohrey Sr., a retired insurance broker and former University of Baltimore wrestling coach, died Friday of complications from a stroke at Stella Maris Hospice. The Timonium resident was 80. Born in Baltimore and raised near Patterson Park, he was awarded a scholarship to McDonogh School after his father died when he was 11. He graduated from the Owings Mills school in 1946 and attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and earned his bachelor's degree from Loyola College in 1949.

The only camp they knew meant more of the same old scenery: a two-week stint of hot days mostly spent inside the library or running around Patterson Park. When Patricia Tasher heard how these children - all from Spanish-speaking countries, now living in East Baltimore, most with uneducated parents with menial jobs in their new homeland - spent their summers, she proposed an alternative. Why couldn't they attend camp at the McDonogh School, a private campus situated on 800 acres in Owings Mills, wondered Tasher, who has taught Spanish at McDonogh for five years.

History teacher Marty McKibbin used to linger over lunch with some of his favorite students at the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, then a military academy complete with buttoned-up uniforms, talking about the war in Vietnam long before much of the rest of the nation was paying attention. One of McKibbin's most frequent sparring partners in the mid-1960s was a young man named John R. Bolton, a scholarship student from Southwest Baltimore who was his teacher's political opposite. Bolton even referred to his instructor as "Mao" McKibbin - not to his face, of course.

On May 29, 2009, PHILIP H. LOHREY, a resident of Stella Maris, Timonium, MD, beloved husband of Betty J. Lohrey for 58 years and devoted father of Philip H. Lohrey, Jr. of Cockeysville, MD, Patrick X. Lohrey of York, PA, Peter L. Lohrey of Lynhurst, NJ, Paul C. Lohrey and his wife, Tamara of West Chester, PA and David M. Lohrey and his wife, Kim of West Simbury, CT. Also survived by 12 grand A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Stella Maris...