THOUGHTS FROM OUR HEAD OF SCHOOL, JOSEPH VORBACH:
Today I shared the news with the school community that I will leave O'Connell in a few weeks to become the Superintendent of Schools for the Catholic Diocese of Arlington. I am excited to be taking on this great challenge and look forward to leveraging all that I have been fortunate to learn during my 11 years at O'Connell to the benefit of Catholic education across the Diocese. Because these 11 years have given me many opportunities to witness the great zeal for the mission of Catholic that teachers, counselors, coaches and administrators bring to their work every day, I go to this new opportunity with a great sense of hopefulness about the future of Catholic education in the Diocese.
I am certainly going to miss being at Bishop O'Connell every day. I work with a wonderfully talented and dedicated team here and I will miss the energy of solving problems with them. I will miss being around the great curiosity, idealism, and sense of the possible that young people inspire us with, and I will miss my regular interactions with families whose commitment to Catholic education inspires our daily efforts. While I won't have these daily encounters as regularly, I will be fueled in my new role by the knowledge that my efforts support schools like Bishop O'Connell where an education rooted in the life of Christ and focused on the development of the whole person is happening everyday.
I will give my all to the school in the coming weeks and when I leave I will do so with a profound sense of gratitude to God and to those who took a chance on my non-traditional candidacy 11 years ago. I have been truly blessed by this opportunity.