Being Xaverian - Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

Introducing...
Stefanie Morgan-Davis, CPA, was named Chief Financial Officer
for Our Lady of Good Counsel High School this past July. She fills pretty big
shoes after the retirement of her predecessor, longtime employee, Candy Horman.
In her position, Stefanie manages all financial and capital planning matters of the
school, and works closely with the Board of Directors while serving as staff for
the Finance, Audit, Plant, and Investment Committees.
Stefanie has more than 20 years of experience in finance and was most recently
the Controller of Washington Real Estate Investment Trust. Prior to her nine years
at WRIT, she worked for HMSHost and Price Waterhouse. Stefanie also served as a
Finance Committee member for the Board of Trustees for the Woods Academy—
an experience that sparked her desire to work for a mission-driven organization.
Stefanie holds a master’s degree in finance from American University and a
Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Virginia.
Already an invaluable asset at our school, Stefanie ensures that all financial policies, protocols and procedures resonate
with the mission, vision and values of Good Counsel as a Catholic school in the Xaverian Brothers tradition. Her immediate
goals include: utilizing our technology more efficiently; providing more transparency to our financial operations by
improving processes; establishing vendor relationships to better manage the school’s resources; and continuing to expand
the financial stewardship of our school.
Originally from Birmingham, Alabama, Stefanie moved to Mitchellville, Maryland, at age nine and later married Nikel Davis
of Norfolk, Virginia. They are raising three beautiful young boys—Shane, Jaden and Daniel—who keep them very busy. ✦
Superstorm Sandy
a moving charitable Event
Over Thanksgiving break, Our Lady of Good Counsel High School’s new
baseball head coach and World Series champion, Steve Lombardozzi,
and his son, Washington Nationals infielder Steve Lombardozzi, Jr.,
initiated an effort to collect donations in support of relief and recovery
programs in the areas devastated by Hurricane Sandy. Drop-off
locations for donations were located throughout the Washington
region including Good Counsel. The Nationals and JK Moving Services
donated a 35-foot truck to pick up the items collected over the
previous week. After collecting items at the two other locations, the
truck headed to GC. The abundance of donations collected at our
school required JK Moving Services’ General Manager, alumnus
Tom Grass ’78, to dispatch a tractor trailer to handle the larger than
anticipated load. Members from the GC baseball team, their parents,
friends and family of the Lombardozzis, and staff members from
the Nationals (including the Washington Nationals mascot, Racing
President,Teddy Roosevelt) packed the items, and the truck traveled
north to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey where it was
gratefully received. ✦
a Xaverian call to action
The aftermath of Superstorm Sandy created an opportunity for our community to lend assistance to two of our XBSS
schools who were hit hard in Brooklyn, NY: Nazareth Regional High School and Xaverian High School. Many families lost
everything, their homes totally destroyed—90 families alone at Xaverian. The Good Counsel community responded quickly
by holding a fundraiser which resulted in raising almost $13,000 total for our brother schools. Very generous gifts were
donated from parents and friends of the school, but the bulk of the funds raised came from our students at Good Counsel. ✦
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