LHS Distinguised Alumni

This past Thursday evening, Lowell High School awarded its Distinguished Alumni Award to five more graduates. Honored were the late Dr. Brendan Leahey (Class of 1922), a noted eye surgeon who performed the first corneal transplant in New England back in 1938; The late James Conway Jr (Class of 1941) who was president and CEO of the Courier Corporation and who served as chair of the Lowell Plan; Dr Joseph McCarthy (Class of 1956) who is one of the leading facial reconstructive surgeons in the world; Elinor Lipman (Class of 1968) who has written seven critically acclaimed novels and who is a columnist for the Boston Globe Magazine; and Ted Leonsis (Class of 1973) who is vice-chairman of America Online and is the majority owner of the NHL's Washington Capitals and a minority owner of the NBA Washinton Wizzards, the WNBA Washington Mystics and the MCI Arena in Washington, DC. Each of the award recipients (or the children of Leahey and Conway) made it abundantly clear to the audience that their time at Lowell High school played in integral role in their subsequent success. Lowell Educational TV was taping this event. Hopefully it will be broadcast often on Channel 22 so more Lowell residents can see what five of their fellow citizens have accomplished.