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John Buckey is a career educator, with over twenty years as a school and district leader. He completed his Bachelor's degree in secondary education and Spanish at Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. He was a Spanish teacher and World Language Department Chair at The Lexington School in Lexington, Kentucky. John went on to the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he earned his Masters in Administration, Planning and Social Policy with a concentration in the Principalship. After graduate school, John was the Dean of Students at The Andrew Schools in Cleveland, Ohio before returning to the East Coast to become Assistant Principal at Littleton High School. After four years, he was named Principal. John moved to Nantucket to become the Principal of Nantucket High School in 2008. He was named Massachusetts High School Principal of the Year in 2013. John earned his doctorate in Educational Administration from Northeastern University in 2014. He served on the Board of the Massachusetts Schools Administrators Association from 2015 to 2020 and as President of the Association in 2018. In 2020, Dr. Buckey left Nantucket to become Superintendent of Schools for the Marblehead Public Schools. He was voted President of the North Shore Superintendents Roundtable in 2022. He is currently the Interim Principal of Hingham High School. John and his husband Kevin, Deputy Chief of Police for North Shore Community College, live in Marblehead.
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Sunday, November 3rd, 2024
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Jenny Armini will start-off this year's race, and talk briefly about the importance of taking care of our mental health. A member of Marblehead Schools and if possible Seth Moulton will join us again this year.
Thank you in advance to our Sponsors and to all our Contributors who make it possible to make all of this a reality.
SPONSORS
Bluestone Capital
Marblehead Collision
Marblehead Bank
Marblehead Workloft
National Grand Bank
Dr Keith E. Taylor, Optometrist
CONTRIBUTORS
Archer Insurance Agency
Congressman Seth Moulton
Deutsch Creative Services
Marblehead Animal Hospital
As always, a big thank you goes out to Brian Flynn and the Lynch/van Otterloo YMCA for their assistance. Thank you to Sustainable Marblehead for providing water containers, thank you to RaceMenu for making this a successful race and finally, a big thank you to The Boston Yacht Club for their support and generosity. Also an extreme shout out to J. Alain Ferry for all of his help behind the scenes and for running our race.
The Marblehead 5K committee: Nancy Gwin, Charles Floeckher, John Owen, Heather Gold, Brian Flynn, Don Dowling, David Deutsch, Alison Richards and Paula Gaull.
The Boston Yacht Club hosts weekly Rotary meetings on Thursdays at 12:15 PM. If you’ve never been to a Rotary meeting, come by and be our guest for lunch.
Marblehead, MA 01945
United States of America