The Board of Trustees guides and assists school leadership in the areas of Catholic identity, finance, operations, facilities, enrollment, and fidelity to our mission of providing a Catholic, classical education. We are deeply grateful to them for their service, support, and many hours of voluntary leadership.

The members of our board are

• Jim Dixon, Chairman

• Eric Ward, Treasurer

• Jessica Linquist, Board Liasion

• Joseph Helzer, Member

• Catherine Neumayr, Member

• Katherine Morgan, Member

• Collin Agni, Member

• Marie-Louise Schirda, Principal, Non-Voting Member

• Kristyne Montero, Business Manager, Non-Voting Member

Rev. Robert Spitzer, SJ, PhD

Fr. Spitzer is the president of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith and of the Spitzer Center. As president of Gonzaga University from 1998 to 2009, he oversaw extensive growth of the student population, as well as of the campus facilities, scholarships, capital projects, and programs in faith, service, and academics. He has published multiple books, including Christ versus Satan in Our Daily Lives, The Light Shines on in the Darkness: Transforming Suffering through Faith, and Five Pillars of the Spiritual Life: A Practical Guide to Prayer for Active People.

Fr. Spitzer is the host of a weekly international one-hour EWTN television program, Fr. Spitzer’s University, concerned with contemporary issues of faith, science, philosophy, and culture. Fr. Spitzer makes frequent television appearances, including on Larry King Live (where he debated Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow), the Today Show, The History Channel, and the PBS series Closer to the Truth.

Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, PhD

Fr. Pacholczyk directs the NCBC’s certification program in health care ethics. A priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, he has given several hundred presentations and participates in debates and roundtables on contemporary medical ethics and bioethics throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has taught bioethics at St. John’s Seminary in Boston; Pope St. John XXIII Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts; Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Connecticut; Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis; St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia; and The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Fr. Pacholczyk has degrees in philosophy, biochemistry, molecular cell biology, and chemistry. He later earned a PhD in neuroscience from Yale University, where he focused on cloning genes for neurotransmitter transporters which are expressed in the brain. After working several years as a molecular biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Fr. Pacholczyk studied for five years in Rome at both the Gregorian University and the Lateran University, where he did advanced work in dogmatic theology and bioethics, examining delayed ensoulment of the human embryo.

He has testified before state legislatures during deliberations over stem cell research and cloning. He writes a syndicated monthly column on bioethics that appears in more than forty US diocesan newspapers as well as newspapers in England, Poland, and Australia. He has appeared in numerous media outlets, including NBC, ABC, CNN International, National Public Radio, the Wall Street Journal, the Dallas Morning News, and the New York Times.