Prep opened the school year with the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit, welcoming our first year Hoyas and praying for a safe and fruitful academic year together. Annually, Father Van Dyke presents the Gannon Award at this Mass to a deserving senior. Congratulations to Jack Fojut ’25, the sixth recipient of this high honor. 

Jack has served at various agencies and worked on many projects over the past four years. These have included: The Be Good Project, an effort to fight hunger among the underserved; helping at the Christ Child Community Shop, which supports the work of the Christ Child Society; Prep’s own Families4Families Program; Katy's Kloset Medical Equipment Lending Library; Martha’s Table; Arlington Neighbors Welcoming Afghans; and for his Senior Summer Service Project, helping at a retirement center in St. Blasien, Germany. In addition to these many engagements, he has served faithfully as an altar server for our school Masses and for the Sunday Resident’s Mass, and has been a lector for the daily Mass for the past four years. This past week Jack was commissioned as a Senior Prefect for the Freshman Floor of the Residence. He is also a stalwart member of our track and cross-country teams.  Says Mr. Kaufman, "this man is always the first to respond when there is a need."

Gregory F. Gannon, a member of the Class of 1968, demonstrated a commitment to Christian Service throughout his time at Georgetown Prep, and took that spirit of service to his life at the University of Notre Dame, and his subsequent professional life as a teacher, as the founder of the Washington Higher Achievement Program, his work for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, and his commitment to his parish and his family. In honor of their 50th Jubilee, the Class of 1968 (with the help from the Class of 1969) created the Gregory F. Gannon ‘68 Award, in memory of their classmate, to be bestowed on that rising senior, who through his dedication to our service program and whose growth as a man for and with others reflects the spirit with which Greg Gannon lived his life.