Winter 2017 | Moving Boys Forward

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Front: Patrick Lecky ’26, Mary Lecky ’30, Carter Lecky ’28 Back: Megan Lecky, Mason Lecky and his parents Don and Betsy Lecky

“… St. Christopher’s justifies itself because it

student with Megan at Harvard. He immediately

embraces quality. Quality means you must apply,

impressed me with his talent but more so his

you need to be very smart and you will be led

character and courage.”

by a first-rate faculty who call you to a great challenge. But not simply to be smart. But to kick your learning up to a higher moral plane—to hate

– Excerpts from the homily given by Vance Wilson, headmaster at St. Albans School in Washington, D.C.

what is evil and hold fast to what is good. And for the governors of the school, it demands trying to provide this kind of education to anyone in this city who can meet the intellectual and moral standards. “Mason Lecky feels this calling in his blood and in his soul. This Richmond native will stand shoulder to shoulder with the great school heads who have served prior to him. I also know he is a humble man. I knew Mason first as a very young intern, then as a teacher and coach, and as a graduate Vance Wilson delivers the homily.

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