The Association meets regularly, and all Prep alumni are welcome to attend the monthly  Alumni Board Meetings . The Association sponsors a number of programs throughout the school year: 

• 5th Quarter and Homecoming
• Alumnight
• Alumni Turkey Bowl
• Alumni Basketball Tournament
• Mentoring/Networking Program
• CYO Basketball Tournament
• Community Outreach Program
• Little Hoya Golf Tournament
• Legacy BBQ

Over the past several years, the Alumni Association has administered the GPAA COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM. Almost $15,000 in grants have been distributed to local grade schools. These grants have helped maintain communication with local principals to enhance their appreciation and understanding of the high-quality education and Jesuit values that Prep has to offer.

Each January since 1988, the Alumni Association has sponsored the annual CYO Basketball Tournament for area elementary and junior high students. This event brings potential Prep students and their families to the campus for a weekend full of athletic competition and a dose of "Prep Pride."

Fifteen years ago, three Prep alumni established a scholarship fund in memory of a Prep teacher who had had a significant impact on them -- coach Gus Coupe. As part of the general endowment fund, the Gus Coupe Scholarship Fund provides financial aid to a young man who could not otherwise afford to attend Prep. This scholarship has grown over the years through the generous contributions of alumni and friends, and through the proceeds from the annual GEORGETOWN PREP ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LITTLE HOYA GOLF CLASSIC. The proceeds from this golf tournament benefit the Gus Coupe Scholarship Fund, the Community Outreach Program, and the other Alumni Association programs.  In the past 5 years, the Association has donated over $30,000 to the Scholarship Fund 

To contact the Alumni Association via E-Mail, write to:  alumni@gprep.org

History of the Georgetown Prep Alumni Association

In October 1945, Volume 1, No. 1 of The Alumnews was printed in which the editor raised the idea that that Georgetown Prep needed an alumni organization. Twenty-two years later after the first class had graduated from the Garrett Park campus in 1923, the school had nearly a thousand names in the alumni files. 

The President of Georgetown Prep, William F. Maloney, S.J. dedicated the new publication to the alumni of Prep.  He promised that the publication be devoted entirely to the affairs of Georgetown and “her Alumni” and he hoped it would enhance the “bonds of mutual devotion and loyalty”.    Dues were $2 per year and the publication contained newsy letters from alumni and notes about classmates in each of the graduated years.  The publication came out twice a year during the fall and spring. 

By the time Volume 3, No. 1 was printed in October 1947; the Alumni Association of Georgetown Preparatory School was created. During the summer of 1947 the Association took form and began the tradition that continues to benefit Georgetown Prep fifty-six years later.

Prep held it’s first General Alumni Reunion as a three-day event over the weekend of June13-15, 1947.Sixty-five “Old Grads” gathered on the first Friday night for a Stag Smoker evening.  There was some general reminiscing and of course the appropriate refreshments which continued until the last table was persuaded to cash in around 1:30am.

Rain came down on the festivities for much of the day on Saturday, however several of the diehards played football/soccer in mud up to their knees.  Some others shot a round of golf on the newly renovated golf course.  Nearly 100 alumni turned out for the day. The day ended with a banquet of fine food and some speakers of the day.

The first speaker was the Most Reverend Thomas A. Emmet, S.J., Bishop of Jamaica.  Bishop Emmet, the Rector of Georgetown Prep from 1923 to 1929 shared some of the stories of those first years at the school.  The Bishop shared with the alumni that a gymnasium was an absolute and immediate need of the Prep.  The school had a significant financial need to make that dream a reality and shared that need with the alumni.  The Reverend William F. Maloney spoke next and expressed his hope that “this, our first alumni reunion, might be the seed from which will develop a permanent, unified, and active Alumni association”.

Following the speakers, the alumni created the first Executive Committee.  The Committee’s mission was to carry on the business of the association for the first year.  This committee was created with twelve members chosen to represent as wide a class-coverage as possible.  Three officers – the president Mr. Howard T. Boyd, ’28, the Mr. Conrad H. Reid, ‘23 as Treasurer and Mr. Joseph V. Connor (teacher at school) as Secretary – were elected for the same term.

These 15 men and Rev. Bernard F. Kirby, S.J., (moderator of association), empowered with hopes of the Reunion Alumni, sparked by the needs of the school, created one of our great traditions – The Georgetown Prep Alumni Association….

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