Illuminating Excellence

Illuminating Excellence: The Campaign for Boston College High School

Welcome Letter from Kelly DeGregorio

Illuminating Excellence: The Campaign for Boston College High School is the largest fundraising effort in the history of BC High. With a goal of $125 million, the campaign will provide the essential resources needed to advance the school’s mission and legacy of leadership.

Strategic investments in our new approaches to care and learning will provide an even stronger foundation for students’ intellectual and spiritual formation. Support for scholarships and financial aid will enable us to recruit and graduate young men of promise from diverse backgrounds and perspectives who have the greatest potential to strengthen our community. Enhancements to our campus—including a new Wellness Complex, new collaborative learning spaces, and a new stadium— embody our emphasis on aligning the physical and philosophical dimensions of a Jesuit, Catholic education.

Achieving the ambitious goals of the Illuminating Excellence campaign will play a critical role in ensuring that the school we love endures—and thrives—as both a world-class institution of learning and a shining example of leadership in all-boys Catholic education.

—Kelly DeGregorio
Vice President for Institutional Advancement

Companions' Scholarship

With a Companions’ Scholarship, you provide a student with the opportunity to fully experience a transformation of the head, heart, and hands. BC High provides a rigorous academic curriculum with a depth of co-curricular, social justice, and faith formation programs that act as a catalyst, forming young men who serve their communities and make a positive impact…here at home and around the globe. Your partnership in our mission has never been more important.

You can support a student at three levels:

$5,000/year,
$10,000/year, and
$25,000/year

Our fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30. Please consider making a gift to The Fund for BC High this year. Every gift, no matter the amount, makes a difference in the lives of our students every day.

For more information, contact Joe Bradley ’17, Office of Institutional Advancement, jbradley@bchigh.edu

House Scholarship

With a House Sponsorship, you provide our high school students with the opportunities to fully experience a transformation of the head, heart, and hands. The House System provides a holistic formation of our students, centered on cura personalis — care of the whole person. Your gift will help:

Create an enhanced environment / context where students can optimize their growth and ultimately fulfill the mission of BC High
Promote deeper connections through a student led inter-house competition, covering athletic and co-curricular activities
Provide meaningful opportunities for student leadership through the construct of the House System

You can support a House at three levels:

$5,000/year,
$10,000/year, and
$25,000/year

For more information, contact Elizabeth Fecsko, Office of Institutional Advancement, efecsko@bchigh.edu

Annual Fund

A gift to the Fund for BC High (annual fund) demonstrates your belief in the value of a Jesuit, Catholic education, and serves as an affirmation of the good work we do every day in and out of the classroom. By supporting BC High through our annual fund, you help advance our mission to develop young men of integrity who are educated in faith and for justice. Your gift to BC High represents an investment in our students; your generosity will help them become tomorrow’s leaders.

For more information, contact Kelly DeGregorio, kdegregorio@bchigh.edu

Scholarships

BC High has more than 300 scholarships that directly support the financial needs of our students. Establishing a scholarship is a wonderful way to recognize someone special in perpetuity. Recent examples of scholarships established during the Illuminating Excellence Campaign are the Fr. Don MacMillan, SJ ’60 Scholarship and the Peter Skipper P’09 Scholarship.

In establishing the Fr. MacMillan Scholarship, Jim ’78 & Tish Fitzpatrick shared that “Fr. Don MacMillan, SJ ’60 was an important part of my formation and that of so many BC High alumni. His ministry of presence has touched our family through four generations and many events including weddings, baptisms and funerals. His kindness and generous spirit means so much and he has left an indelible imprint on us all. It is important that we recognize the impact that Fr. Don has made to the BC High community. This scholarship offers a student an opportunity to embrace a Catholic Jesuit education that will provide a foundation for formation and commitment. AMDG.”

For more information, contact Kelly DeGregorio, kdegregorio@bchigh.edu

Support the Endowment

The BC High Endowment plays a critical role in the school’s ability to deliver on our mission: guiding our students to become men for and with others in the best tradition of a Jesuit, Catholic formation. The endowment underpins the school’s financial stability, providing a sustainable source of funding to benefit our students and the campus in perpetuity. Your philanthropic investment ensures that young men have access to a BC High formation now and for generations to come. Gifts to the endowment tend to be larger in size and can be paid over several years.

As part of the endowment, we have provided examples of both scholarships and restricted gifts that leave a lasting impact on BC High.

For more information, contact Kelly DeGregorio, kdegregorio@bchigh.edu

Planned Giving

Leave a Lasting Legacy

When you include Boston College High School in your estate plan, your generosity provides financial aid for students in need, strengthens the school’s programs, and supports our dedicated faculty. Your support will ensure that BC High can shape tomorrow’s leaders into the future.

To learn more, visit our planned giving page, or contact Pat Thompson, Senior Director Campaign and Planned Giving at pthompson@bchigh.edu

Restricted Gifts

Restricted gifts are those gifts to BC High that go directly towards a specific endowed fund or toward an established operating program. They can support a variety of programs such as Heads of House, Academic Resource Center, the Centers of Human Excellence, technology resource enhancement, faculty professional development, student academic development as well as building and plant maintenance.

For more information, contact Kelly DeGregorio, kdegregorio@bchigh.edu

Souren Ouzounian ’85, Trustee, Chair
Jack Shields ’79, P’06, Chair
Mike White ’70, Chair
Nick Argento
Greg Bulger ’68
Maria Cadigan
John Carroll ’86, P’25
Joe Corcoran ’80, P’11
Michael Corcoran ’82, P’17, ’19
Dan Coughlin ’70, Co-Chair, Planned Giving Committee
Rich Davey ’91, Trustee
Joe Donahue ’74
Paul Donato ’95, Trustee
Linda Dorcena Forry P’22, ’25, Trustee
Mary Farrell
Charlie Flint ’73
Ken Foraste ’91, P’30
Bob Forman ’84, P’18, ’20, Trustee
Fritz Friedman ’68, Trustee
Huy Huynh
Tom Hynes ’57
Dan Kenslea ’71, Co-Chair, Planned Giving Committee
Donald A. MacMillan, SJ ’60
June Matte P’15, ’17, Trustee
Nelson Miranda ’92
John V. Murphy ’67, P’98, Trustee
Dick Walsh ’65
Tracey Welsh P’22, ’26, Co-Chair, Parent Giving Committee

Illuminating Excellence