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 serve as its second headmaster.

After what he calls “a splendid sabbatical" serving as Dean of Faculty and Academics at Holy Family Academy in New Hampshire, founding headmaster Mark Langley returns to the Lyceum where he serves as our first “Academic Dean.” Mr. Langley is particularly delighted to assist his old friend, Headmaster Macik, in the implementation, review and further development of the Lyceum's excellent classical curriculum. He is also thrilled to serve on the Lyceum faculty as a full time teacher - and a member of the bass section in the Lyceum Chorale!

Mr. Langley holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College. He taught at Trivium School in Massachusetts for twelve years, where he also directed the all-school chorus. In addition to his teaching duties, Mr. Langley served on the Executive Committee of the board of Trustees, and was the acting Academic Dean and director of fundraising. He served two years as the Curriculum Development Manager for Advantage Schools, Inc., a charter school management company headquartered in Boston MA. There he assisted in designing and managing a budget of two million dollars while also developing and managing the curriculum at 20 charter schools around the country.

Mr. Langley loves sacred polyphonic music of the Renaissance and has had the privilege of founding and directing several adult, youth and children choirs in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Ohio. He has also served as organist and Director of Music at the beautiful church of St. John the Evangelist in Clinton, Massachusetts. Today, Mark and his wife Stephanie, along with their eleven children, reside in Cleveland Heights.

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 20 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 in 2008 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.

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 fourth 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.

Ted Smith earned a B.A. from The University of Dallas. Returning to The Lyceum for a third 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.

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 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.

Raymond C. Wilson is a graduate of Brown University (A.B., magna cum laude ), where he pursued his lifelong interests in history and international relations. He received his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Focusing on international tax planning, Mr. Wilson practiced in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts before joining the adjunct faculty at Case Western University School of Law, where he taught for nine years. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are the parents of four children and live in Shaker Heights, Ohio, where they are members of Gesu Parish.