Patrick Gahan

Saint James School of Maryland

History & Biography

“St. James is the patriarch of church schools in America. Retaining the rich common life of its founding before the Civil War, students and faculty share in daily habits of scholarship, athletics, worship, and fellowship. The first headmaster, John Barrett Kerfoot, insisted that education was not a passive, abstract endeavor, but must be experienced in the carefully choreographed rudiments of an entire day. Over 170 years later, that commitment remains.”