Montgomery, AL
A community of six ACE teachers: Four second-year teachers and two first-year teachers. They serve in schools in the Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama. They include St. Jude High School, Montgomery Catholic High School, and the Thomas L. Doyle Middle School.
Montgomery community – Marie, Megan, Mariangela, Chris, Mike, and Dan.
Marie Peterson
St. Thomas Aquinas College, 2006, B.S. in Elementary and Special Education
St. Jude Educational Institute, 7th & 8th Grade Math & Religion
Mariangela Sullivan
Yale University, 2006, BA Department of Humanities
Montgomery Catholic High School, Church Doctrine, and English
Daniel Bowen
University of Notre Dame, 2006, BA
Thomas L. Doyle Middle School, 7th & 8th Grade Social Studies
Christopher Gilmore
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 2006 B.S.
St. Jude Educational Institute, Math
Michael McShane
St. Louis University, 2007, English
St. Jude Educational Institute, English and Religion
Megan VanVoorhis
Princeton University, 2006, History
Montgomery Catholic High School, Social Studies and Religion
Montgomery House
What is unique about your community?
We are the center of ACE Southeast; we are within 6-hours driving distance of nine other communities. Come visit!
Schools served in Montgomery
Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School
St. Jude Educational Institute
The Thomas L. Doyle Middle School
Provide a brief description of Montgomery:
Montgomery is home to the Alabama State Capitol, a large Air Force Base (from which MCPS draws many of its students), and the sixth largest Shakespeare Festivals in the world. As their website will tell you, “ASF operates year-round, producing 14 world-class productions annually, including three works of William Shakespeare. The remainder are classics of the stage – works by playwrights such as Moliére, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, and Eugene O’Neill – along with musicals and new works commissioned by the Festival.” The Shakespeare park is right across the street from Catholic High, which makes it very accessible to our community.
What do you like most about Montgomery?
Montgomery is full of fascinating history, particularly Civil Rights history. Within a few blocks, one can visit the Alabama State Capital (where George Wallace famously said, “segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever”), the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (whose famous pastor Martin Luther King, Jr. led the Montgomery Bus Boycott), and the Rosa Parks Museum.
