CLIPPER CONVERSATION
Second to None
Working at Xaverian is so much more than a job. It’s a vocation. No one knows that better than Assistant Principal for Academics Daniel Sharib ’96, whose time at Xaverian spans 24 years. He sat down for a conversation on the school’s rising academic profile and the core beliefs that are drawing outstanding students and faculty to 7100 Shore Road. You graduated from Xaverian in 1996. Did you think you would come back to Shore Road and become an educator? Not at all. Back then, I never saw myself as a teacher. I was on a different path. I was going to go to law school. Initially, I thought
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I’d go to law school at night and work during the day. And once I started teaching at Xaverian, I realized that this was what I was meant to be doing. And to be honest with you, in 20 years, I haven’t looked back, which tells me I made the right decision.