About
President's Welcome
June 5, 2024
(Cuyahoga Falls) - Walsh Jesuit High School’s Board of Directors announced today that Tim Grady will join Walsh Jesuit High School as its thirteenth president, effective July 1, 2024. Mr. Grady will replace Fr. Christopher Fronk, SJ, who will step down as President on June 30 for health reasons. “I am honored and humbled to join the Walsh Jesuit community and look forward to utilizing my professional experiences and passion for Jesuit education as we prepare WJ to serve the next generation of Christ-centered men and women that our world so desperately needs,” said Mr. Grady.
(Cuyahoga Falls) - Walsh Jesuit High School’s Board of Directors announced today that Tim Grady will join Walsh Jesuit High School as its thirteenth president, effective July 1, 2024. Mr. Grady will replace Fr. Christopher Fronk, SJ, who will step down as President on June 30 for health reasons. “I am honored and humbled to join the Walsh Jesuit community and look forward to utilizing my professional experiences and passion for Jesuit education as we prepare WJ to serve the next generation of Christ-centered men and women that our world so desperately needs,” said Mr. Grady.
This appointment has been approved by V. Rev. Karl Kiser, SJ, Provincial of the Midwest Jesuits. Fr. Kiser stated, “I am thrilled to mission Tim as the next president of Walsh Jesuit High School. Tim brings deep experience as a man of service, faith, and integrity. With his deep Catholic faith fortified in Ignatian identity, Tim will lead Walsh Jesuit’s legacy of forming students who are inspired to live with competence, conscience, and compassion as men and women for and with others.”
Mr. Grady comes to Walsh Jesuit with a vast background in leadership management, including spending the last 15 years in various roles at Boys Hope Girls Hope of Northeast Ohio. Founded by Father Don Vetesse, SJ in 1986, BHGH opened its first home for young men from Akron on the Walsh Jesuit campus in 1989. In the 35 years since those first doors of opportunity opened, scores of Boys Hope Girls Hope Scholars have attended and graduated from Walsh Jesuit High School. Today, BHGH provides more than 200 young adults with holistic care and opportunities rooted in the Jesuit tradition of forming Men and Women for Others. Walsh Jesuit continues to provide several BHGH Scholars with a world-class education and opportunity to reach their full potential.
Mr. Grady was the Executive Director of the Arrupe Neighborhood Partnership for 7 years at St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland prior to his work at Boys Hope Girls Hope. At BHGH, Mr. Grady began as a Program Director before being promoted to Executive Director for 11 years before being named the Director of Strategic Growth in 2023. He led a $9M ‘Our Hope for the Future’ Campaign resulting in campus expansion, highlighted by a $7M, 21,000 square foot program facility and turf-field for sports. Mr. Grady also co-designed and founded a service program model rooted in the Corporal Works of Mercy that has been replicated at high schools and universities across America over the past two decades.
“We are fortunate and blessed to have Tim Grady join Walsh Jesuit High School as our next President,” said Tom Haag '81, Chairman, Walsh Jesuit Board of Directors. “The search committee that was assembled, committed countless hours to bring us to this outstanding conclusion.”
“I am honored and humbled by the opportunity to build on Walsh Jesuit’s remarkable legacy as we create a vision to serve the next generation of Christ-centered men and women for others,” said Mr. Grady. “Walsh Jesuit is a truly marvelous community, and I am thrilled for the opportunity to support our leaders, faculty and staff while engaging our parents, alumni and greater community in this critical mission of teaching and forming our students to know, love and serve Christ in an ever more challenging world.”
“I am honored and humbled by the opportunity to build on Walsh Jesuit’s remarkable legacy as we create a vision to serve the next generation of Christ-centered men and women for others,” said Mr. Grady. “Walsh Jesuit is a truly marvelous community, and I am thrilled for the opportunity to support our leaders, faculty and staff while engaging our parents, alumni and greater community in this critical mission of teaching and forming our students to know, love and serve Christ in an ever more challenging world.”
Our Leadership
Management Leadership Team
List of 8 members.
Our Address
Walsh Jesuit High School
4550 Wyoga Lake Road
4550 Wyoga Lake Road
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44224-1084
330-929-4205
Where to Find Us:
Board of Directors
List of 22 items.
-
Mr. Tim Grady, President, Walsh Jesuit High School
-
Mr. Mark Anzelc, Chairman
Mark Anzelc is the Global Vice President of Supply Chain for Parker Hannifin’s Motion Systems Group. In this role, he leads a global team of professionals responsible for strategic planning and tactical execution in procurement, planning, logistics, and customer experience. Prior to this, he held executive positions at General Electric, Lucas Industries, and other leading companies. Mark has a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine. He also holds a Master of Engineering in Manufacturing Engineering from Boston University supplemented by extensive executive development. Mark is active in community service as a volunteer, donor, and board member. -
Mr. Justin Alaburda '00
-
Mr. Daniel Bradesca
-
Mrs. Brandee Carson-Jones
-
Rev. Matthew Donovan, S.J.
-
Mr. Julio Esis
-
Mrs. Jennifer Kealy
-
Mr. Andy Kerr '02, WJ Social Studies Teacher
-
Ms. Holly Little '01
-
Mr. Craig S. Marshall '78, General Counsel
Craig is a partner in Stark & Knoll’s Business Services Group. For over 30 years, Craig has represented many Northeast Ohio businesses with growth and acquisition strategies, mergers and acquisitions and day-to-day business and legal counsel to management and owners. -
Rev. William P. O'Brien, S. J.
-
Br. John Moriconi, SJ
-
Mr. Theodore Paynter '94
Ted is a proud graduate of Walsh Jesuit High School class of 1994. He also graduated from Walsh University with degrees in Communications and Political Science. Ted has worked in Marketing and Advertising Communications for nearly 22 years and is currently the Director of Operations for Clum Creative, a video production and creative marketing agency in Cleveland, Ohio. He has been serving on the Walsh Jesuit Marketing Committee for the past six years.
Ted has been married to his wife Lisa for 21 years and has two grown step-sons. He also serves on the board for the North Canton Playhouse, a community theater, where he has served in various capacities for 20+ years. After gaining an appreciation for the performing arts in several high school drama productions (at WJHS and Our Lady of the Elms), he and his wife later met doing a community theater production and to this day are both deeply involved in theater arts. -
Mrs. Gina Poblete
-
Mr. Brian D. Pollak '01
-
Mr. Dan J. Schrag '98
-
Mr. Isaiah Shepard '06
-
Mrs. Torey Tolson
-
Mr. Paul Volpe '83
-
Dr. John Wiencek '79
-
Br. Matt Wooters, SJ
List of 1 items.
-
Jesuit Board of Members
Fr. William O'Brien, SJ
Fr. Cyril Pinchak, SJ
Fr. Jim McGivney, SJ
Fr. Paul O'Connor, SJ
Our Mission
As a Christ-centered community, we strive to be Men and Women for and with Others.
Phone
©2024 Walsh Jesuit High School
Walsh Jesuit High School admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, athletic and other school-administered programs.