Mount de Sales High School - Salesian Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Mr. Jim Ray is the only member of our faculty who graduated from high school in a foreign country. He finished his high school education in Madrid, Spain and returned to the U.S. to study at the University of North Carolina, where he majored in political sci- ence. Mr. Ray taught at Southwest High School for four years before coming to MDS. He also worked in the advertising industry in New York City. He holds two Master’s De- grees - one from Mercer University in Educa- tion, and another in Secondary School Coun- selling from Georgia State University. Since coming to Mt. de Sales, Mr. Ray has taught social studies and drama, and was our drama director for a number of years. He became our full-time guidance coun- sellor in 1982. Mrs. Jan Manning came to MDS in 1983 after working as an office manager and bookkeeper for 18 years. She is a native of Illinois, with three grown children and five grandchildren. Two of Mrs. Man- ning’s grandchildren are enrolled at St. Peter Claver School, and another is a student at Sacred Heart School in Warner Robins. Mrs. Manning and her husband, Bruce, are avid and accomplished eee b- bowlers; in fact, she and her daugh- ter were city champions in 1985. Mrs. Manning recalls of her high school years that she once “sweet talked my P.E. teacher into having bowling classes for six weeks.”’ Mrs. Manning is the originator of the ‘“‘Macon Teens’”’ bowlin g league and has been active in fundraising for St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital. A native of Macon, Mrs. Madge Knott, our librarian, graduated from A.L. Miller High School and went on to study Spanish and French at the University of Georgia, where she was frequently on the Dean’s List. She holds a Master’s De- gree in Librarianship from Emory Univer- sity and has been Librarian at Mt. de Sales since 1973. Mrs. Knott’s daughter Katherine graduated from MDS in 1976 and was Editor of the Sa esian; her youngest son Steve is also an MDS alumni, and earned letters in football and baseball. Her old- est son, Andy, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Having lived her whole life in Ma- con, Mrs. Knott has seen a lot of things and made a lot of friends. She worked with Mr. Ray at Southwest High School; also at Southwest at the time was Rever- end Joe McDaniel, a former member of the MDS faculty and the father of Krista McDaniel in our current freshman class.

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aMr. Chester Pierce(Assistant Principal Financial Manager was the first of six brothers to graduate from MDS, in 1966. He attended Mercer University on a baseball scholarship, and earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Mercer. This is his 14th year at Mt. de Sales. In additon to his adminis- trative duties, he coaches var- sity softball and baseball, and B-team boys basketball. Mr. Michael Vullo is Director of Alumni Affairs; before he as- sumed his current responsibili- ties he taught English and Art History for several years. Mr. Vullo graduated from MDS in 1971, and durings his student years, he was active in Student Council, was a member of the National Honor Society, and was editor of the Sales Sheet, the student newspaper. Sister Mary Fidelis, R.S.M., (Principal) has been Mt. de Sales’ principal for the last 17 years. She came to MDS after serving as Princi- pal at St. Vincent’s Academy in Sa- vannah. Under her leadership, our student body has doubled in size, two new buildings have been added to our campus (Burke and De Sales Halls) and several pieces of property adjacent to the campus have been purchased. In addition to these obvious ac- complishments, Sister Fidelis is very active in the MDS Development Pro- gram, which was begun in 1978. It is this program which will insure the future of Mt. de Sales, and Sister has spent many hours and days estab- lishing this lifeline to our future. Last but not least, Sister Fidelis has been our cheerleading modera- tor during this school year!

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Mrs. Mary Frances Peery came to Mt. de Sales in 1981, and has taught En- glish, Writing, and Typing. She is a native of Emory, Ga., and graduated from De- catur High School where she was a mem- ber of National Honor Society and Beta Club. She graduated with Honors from Auburn University where she was active in four different honorary and social so- rorities. She earned her Master’s Degree from Mercer University in 1984. She taught for two years at Kendrick High School in Columbus. Mrs. Peery and her husband, Bill, en- joy the outdoors and particularly like to hunt quail and dove. They have two daughters: Ann, a fifth grader at T.D. Tin- sley, and Beth, an MDS freshman. Coach Mike Garvin has the longest continuous tenure of any- one on our faculty. He came to MDS in 1967, after several years at Willin- gham High School, where he taught math and coached football. He comes from a large Macon family; in fact, his younger brother Minter was on the first Mount de Sales football team. Coach Garvin graduated from Lanier High School, and Mercer Uni- versity; he has his Master’s Degree from Georgia College. Coach Garvin is our Athletic Di- rector, and in his time here MDS has won championships by the dozen. Mrs. Jane Claxton is a native of McDon- ough, Georgia, where she graduated from Henry County High School. In her senior year, she was chosen Miss Congeniality. She graduated from Wesleyan College with a de- gree in English, and earned her Master’s De- gree from Mercer University in 1981. Before coming to Mt de Sales in 1981, she taught at Jackson High School, and worked at the Classical Studies Department at Duke University. Mrs. Claxton’s husband Joe is presently the General Assistant to the President at Mercer University, and was formerly profes- sor and Dean at Mercer’s Law School. She has two children. Her son Joe at- tends boarding school in South Carolina, and her daughter Anne Margaret will be entering MDS as a freshman next fall. Mrs. Claxton has taught English and Writing at MDS, and is well-known for her gentle guidance of our 8th Grade classes.