Geruson to be first lay president at Holy Ghost Prep

BENSALEM A Wharton School graduate and former vice president of St. Joseph's University is to become the first lay president of the 118-year-old Holy Ghost Preparatory School.

Gregory J. Geruson, who graduated from the private Catholic high school in 1979, is scheduled to start July 1. The current president, the Rev. James P. McCloskey, will embark on a program of advanced biblical study at the University of Notre Dame's Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem.

McCloskey previously served as the school's headmaster, and Geruson served under him as assistant headmaster through much of the 1990s.

Geruson then worked as Holy Ghost's vice president of institutional advancement before moving back to St. Joe's, where he was an accomplished fund-raiser. Geruson is currently vice president of the Healey Education Foundation, which supports Catholic schools in the United States.

Geruson graduated from La Salle University before attending the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

In a statement, Geruson said, "Holy Ghost is a remarkable school that forms the hearts and minds of the next generation of our leaders - and does so in our Spiritan tradition."

- Ben Finley