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

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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.

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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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Now in her 7th year at Mt. de Sales, Mrs. Jackie Fry borings a wealth of professional experience to her Spanish students. She taught Spanish and English at North- east High School in the late 1960’s, and also worked in elementary education, teaching Spanish at five different elementary schools in Bibb County as part of a special program known as “Foreign Language in the Elemen- tary Schools.”’ She returned to teaching when she came to MDS in 1980. Mrs. Fry graduated with honors from Waycross High School, and studied Spanish and Psychology at Mercer University, which she attended on an academic scholarship. She was chosen as the Outstanding Student in the School of Education in 1968. She co- pleted her Master’s Degree, also at Mercer, in 1984. Mrs. Fry’s husband, John, is a textiles trader by profession. They have two chil- dren: John, Jr., currently an MDS sophomore, and Alice, who will enter MDS next year. A native of Macon and a gradu- ate of Mt. de Sales, Coach Tony Pierce returned to his alma mater as a teacher in 1984, after earning his Bachelor’s Degree from Mercer Uni- versity. The second of six brothers to graduate from MDS, Coach Pierce lists his high school interests as “sports, sports, and sports.’ He played football, basketball and baseball, was captain of the football team, and part of five different re- gion and state championship teams. In his senior year, he won outstand- ing student awards from both his classmates (the McAuley Award) and the faculty (the Senior Award) Before coming to MDS, Coach Pierce worked for Proctor and Gam- ble, Cherokee Farms Dairy, and as a sportswriter for the Macon Tele- graph and News. He and his wife Bunny have three children. Their twin daughters Mary and Nettie are in 3rd grade at St. Joseph’s, and their son Nigel is an MDS 8th grader. Mrs. Simonne Gray is in her second year at Mt. de Sales, teaching biology and advanced biology to sophomores and seniors. Mrs. Gray is a native Georgian, hav- ing graduated from St. Pius X High School in Savannah, where she was Pres- ident of the Senior Class and captain of the basketball team. While in high school, she was active in the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) at St. An- thony’s Church. Mrs. Gray earned her Bachelor’s De- gree from Savannah State College in Bi- ology, where she was an Honor Roll stu- dent. She also earned a Medical Techno- logist’s Degree from Memorial Medical Center. She completed her education with a Master’s Degree in Education from Cleveland State University in Ohio, in 1982. Mrs. Gray is an active member of St. Peter Claver Church; her husband, Dr. Wilson Gray, is a practicing pysician at the Medical Center.