Becoming Our Best campaign
Letter from the Chairs
When we accepted the challenge of chairing the $50 million Becoming Our Best campaign, we knew that it was a tall order, but we also knew that with the McDonogh community behind us we could make it happen. What we didn’t know was that the support would be so overwhelming that the campaign would reach the $50 million goal nearly a year early in the fall of 2007. That is what we call a dedicated community of believers, and we are extremely grateful for the extraordinary generosity of all of our donors.
Becoming Our Best was the largest and most ambitious campaign in McDonogh School’s history. The concept emerged from the school’s 2002 strategic plan, and the campaign officially began in 2004 with a $20 million matching grant from Jack Luetkemeyer and the Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation, a gift for which McDonogh is forever thankful.
The success of Becoming our Best has enabled McDonogh to increase the number of scholarships, establish three endowed teaching chairs and five professional development funds, build five new faculty homes on campus, construct a new aquatic center with a 50-meter pool, and sustain the annual fund at $1.5 million a year for the duration of the campaign.
We owe enormous gratitude to the board members who so generously supported the campaign with over $9 million in pledges and gifts, as well as those donors whose gifts established endowed funds during the campaign. We would also like to extend a very special thank you to all of the campaign volunteers. Without you, Becoming Our Best would still be a dream.
It has been a tremendous honor to lead the first phase of this historic campaign, and we look forward to building on its success during the next phase, which will be guided by a campus master plan currently under development. We know that with your continued support we will become our best at McDonogh.
Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr. '48
Campaign Chair
R. Jack Doub '52
Campaign Vice-Chair
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