McDonogh School - Dragon Yearbook (Owings Mills, MD)

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Table ot Contents Reidemies Athletics Vlilitarv Seniors 109 4 C ' f 27 Activities 51 1 ' 65 i N M 97

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John McDonogh The early 18005 produced scores of mercantrle prrnces rn the coastal metropolrses of the Unrted 1' ,Aw States a leader and proneer of whom was john McDonogh Eldest son of an Amerrcan patrrot john McDonogh was rnstructed both lrterally and relrgr ously urged by hrs father to rmprove hrmself at any opportunrty Whrle strll under twenty the young McDonogh entered hrs chosen busrness career merchant trade keeprng constantly rn contact wrth the famrly he held so dear Through hrs extraordrnary foresrght rnde fatrgable body and mrnd masterly negotratrons and rnherent thrrftrness john McDonogh comprled rn ten years a fortune large enough to allow hrm retrre ment and a gentlemans lrfe on two plantatrons Desprte hrs astronomrcal rrse to success hrs Wlt re marned sharp hrs rnterests many hrs rntegrrty genurne and hrs rmagrnatron unbounded In 1904 when tvs enty four years old he sat down and transcrrbed a most peculrar document Thrs was not an odd draft but rt was very unusual for a man so young and vxealthy to confine hrmself thusly for rt vu as 'rt thrs zenrth of hrs career that thrs brrllrant young man plotted 1 modest course to follovs for the re marnder of hrs lrfe These fifteen corollarres he formu lated and metrculously carrred out through hrs re mlrnrng forty seven years Frndrng rdleness to be corrodrng McDonogh re rnvested hrs fortune rn publrc lands and bonds trre lessly seekrng to rmprove hrmself and to do the greatest possrble amount of good He worked vehemently untrl hrs death and testrmony rn 1850 whrch revealed hrs motrvatrons In the wrll of john McDonogh was drscovered the reservatron whrch had been so profoundly hrdden After moderate allow ances for personal and famrly affarrs the remarnder of the vast McDonogh fortune lands and bonds was to be consecrated for the formatron of publrc schools rn Baltrmore hrs hometown and New Orleans hrs resrdence From the grant to Maryland came the funds wrth whrch our Alma Mater was founded The merchant of New Orleans vsas suddenly lauded by those who had jeered hrm prevrously and the ensurng testrmonrals to our founder haxe been more than a fem 7 - 9 v ' y s 1 9 n , - 7 7 a W - 3:3 . . . . . L , 7 . ,,:E:' .1:: . ,- y . 1 M , 1 , Q ..,:.:E:54 ,ri Q '. A ' :' l K ' - t R Y 1 f A ' '- 'WX l 5:,.:,:,,,, .A . . . . . . I 1 -1 r t .2 .12 c y - I A -. M f- - - - - .. 8 g A A - 'S - . L - M55 6 ' . 5 Y . . Y . . - .i , , ' teh- . . . . . V f 1 ' . . . ,, ' f - U A ., in - .N , 5 N . . . a 7 a . . . 7 . L, . 1 a v a . ' l 7 , - r 1 l . . 7 V

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THE TAGART MEMORIAL CHAPEL