Headmaster Luke Macik received his Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College in 1987, and served as Assistant Director of Admissions there from 1987 to 1990. During this time he also co-led the sophomore seminar in which students read and discussed works by Virgil, Plutarch, St. Augustine , Boethius, Dante, Chaucer, and St. Thomas Aquinas. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1993, after which he began practicing law in New Mexico . In 1995, he became a partner in the law firm of Mason, Isaacson, and Macik, PA, where he specialized in Indian Law and served as the insurance defense counsel for the Navajo Nation for fifteen years. He is also admitted to the bar in Colorado, Illinois, Wyoming, Navajo Nation, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has taught undergraduate law classes at the University of New Mexico Gallup campus and has taught numerous legal seminars.

Throughout his career he has been involved in leading and organizing Great Books reading groups with his peers. Mr. Macik is a board member of the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education which “exists to give Catholic educators a clear understanding of the riches of authentic Catholic education…and to help them implement the Church’s vision in their institutions.” In November of 2007, he became Vice President of Administration at Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming and served on its Board of Directors. He is the father of nine children and has been actively involved in home schooling with his wife, Lisa. As an enthusiastic advocate of the program of liberal education at the Lyceum, he is very pleased to become its second headmaster.

The choral director of the Lyceum Schola Cantorum, Mr. Flood has conducted choirs for 14 years, holding posts at several churches, including the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore; he is currently the Director of Music at St. Clement Parish in Lakewood. Mr. Flood is also the founder and president of The Foundation for Sacred Arts, a Catholic nonprofit organization that seeks to stimulate a movement in new sacred music, art, and architecture. Mr. Flood received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, where he studied under world-renowned classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco. He has 19 years' experience offering guitar instruction. Mr. Flood is the husband of Jeanette Flood, with whom he has five children.

Jeanette Amestoy Flood and two of her five children came to the Lyceum last year after 10 years of homeschooling. Mrs. Flood graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville magna cum laude, where she double-majored in English and history. She obtained her master’s degree in English literature from Catholic University of America, with a specialization in drama. She also read a fair amount of theology during her 17 years' copyediting for Ignatius Press. In addition to homeschooling, Mrs. Flood’s experience as an educator includes teaching grammar at a community college; speech, drama, and religion instruction for her homeschool co-op; math tutoring; conducting seminar-style Scripture studies; and giving talks for a Catholic women’s group. Although she particularly delights in anything literary, Mrs. Flood also has a broad love of learning and seeks to pass that on to her students.

Jean Henderson brings nearly twenty-five years of teaching experience to The Lyceum. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in English and Religious Education from The College of Mount St. Joseph and has received training at Kent State University for teachers of chemistry. She served as a teacher of language arts, religion, math and music for seven years in Catholic schools in Indiana and Ohio. She then turned her attention to the education of her own children and is one of the pioneers of the home schooling movement. At The Lyceum she has taught Latin I, 7th and 8th grade mathematics, and geography. Mrs. Henderson has recently gravitated towards the field of special education, and has attended workshops and presentations in the areas of the autism spectrum and nonverbal learning disorders. Jean, her husband John, and their eleven children love to travel (they have visited 44 of the 48 contiguous states as well as a few Canadian provinces!). Both husband and wife also love to garden at their home in nearby Solon.

Colleen Hogan brings a wealth of educational experience to The Lyceum. Colleen graduated summa cum laude from the Honors Program at John Carroll University with a B.A. in English Literature. She then taught Latin, English, and humanities for six years at Ruffing Montessori Middle School, whose curriculum was modeled on Mortimer Adler’s Paideia Proposal, a manifesto for classical education. She has served as a catechist for The Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and is a licensed Kindermusik instructor. Her greatest qualification is that she has been a stay-at-home mom with her five children for the past twenty years, homeschooling during the past four years. Her oldest daughter, Clare, graduated from The Lyceum in 2008. Colleen currently serves as a cantor and choir member at her parish, Church of the Gesu. She delights in singing great choral works, especially those of Mozart and Haydn, and reading the novels of Jane Austen. She is not ashamed to admit that her favorite movie is The Sound of Music.

Caitlyn Murphy earned a B.A. in Literature from The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts in New Hampshire. At Thomas More she took a profound interest in the poetry of Gerard Manly Hopkins and in the study of Greek, translating parts of Plato's Republic, The Gospels and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. A gifted artist, Caitlyn also studied at The Florence Academy of Art in Italy. She returns to The Lyceum for a third year of teaching. As an alumna of Trivium School, in Massachusetts, Miss Murphy enjoys teaching at The Lyceum, a school so very close in spirit to her own Alma Mater.

A native of Pittsburgh, Erin O'Bryan earned her B.A. in Greek and Latin from The Catholic University of America in 2002, and taught for a year at Aquinas Academy of Pittsburgh. She holds an M.A. in Classics from the University of Pittsburgh, where she taught Latin and history courses. Erin is working on a dissertation on Virgil's Aeneid, so she is excited to be teaching the Virgil course at the Lyceum this year! Erin and her husband Jeff live in Streetsboro.

Mary Sand, a founding teacher and school registrar, joined The Lyceum in 2003. After studying the classical liberal arts at Thomas Aquinas College, Mary taught at Trivium School in Massachusetts for two years. She then studied music at MidAmerica Nazarene University near her hometown in Kansas. As Mary and her husband, Joseph, enjoy a growing family, they take long walks through the beautiful neighborhood surrounding their home in Cleveland Heights.

Ted Smith earned a B.A. from The University of Dallas. Returning to The Lyceum for a second year of teaching Mr. Smith brings a great love for the study of Mathematics, teaching Calculus and Advanced Algebra. A resident of Cleveland Heights, Mr. Smith also brings a special love for the study of classical languages, teaching Latin II and the higher levels of Greek at the Lyceum.