St. Mary’s admin receives award

LYNN – St. Mary’s High School administratro Ann McGreevy received the Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Education, an award given as a part of Worcester State College’s 25th Annual Distinguished Alumni Awards.These awards are the highest non-degree recognition that WSC gives to alumni. McGreevy said she is honored.”This honor was a wonderful affirmation of my years of work in education and I am so grateful to have received it,” she said. “I am also grateful to be affiliated with St. Mary’s High School, a school similar to my Catholic high school in Worcester, and to be working with the faculty and students there.”McGreevy received both her bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in education from WSC. She earned her doctorate from the University of Connecticut, where she worked with professors Joseph Renzulli and Vincent Rogers. She began her career teaching in classrooms and in the Gifted and Talented services in Worcester Public Schools.She served as a professor of education and the director of graduate programs at Notre Dame College in New Hampshire for 15 years before joining Salem State College, where she is currently an adjunct visiting professor of education and an advisor in the masters in reading program. She is also an administrator at St. Mary’s High School, where she is a teacher-coach and director of professional development.For 10 years, McGreevy wrote the column “Education Matters” in the Nashua Telegraph and is a presenter and prolific author of more than 40 articles and papers on eminent people. She has received a Best Paper award from Gifted Child Quarterly for her archival research on Charles Darwin and his teacher, John Henslow.