Monday, June 22, 2009

Greetings to all at St. Fabian Catholic Church and School!

I am both thrilled and honored to become the next principal at St. Fabian Catholic School.  I know a great deal of hard work and prayer was involved throughout the St. Fabian community toward the effort to select a new principal, especially by the search committee.  I am determined to provide the very best of my knowledge, skills, abilities, and faith to the school’s community, and especially to its students.

My career in education began as a permanent substitute teacher in St. Johns, MI, after I graduated from Michigan State University.  The following year, I accepted a teaching position with St. Pius School in Southgate, MI, a school I attended as an elementary school student, as a math, science, and literature teacher.  During the eleven years I taught in St. Pius, I earned a Master of Arts degree in English Education from Wayne State University.

In 1994, I began teaching math, science, and literature in St. Regis Catholic School in Bloomfield Hills, MI.  I earned an Education Specialist certificate in Instructional Technology in 1996 from Wayne State University, and I assumed the role of interim principal during the 2003/2004 school year. 

I taught 7th and 8th grade math, pre-algebra, and algebra at All Saints Catholic School in Canton, MI, I have adult education experience with Woodhaven Community Education, Woodhaven, MI, and additional graduate credits in gifted/talented education and experience in that area as a teacher in Gulfview Middle School in Naples, FL.

For the last two years, I have been principal at St. Mary Catholic School in Pinckney, MI, and although I had an enriching, productive, and rewarding experience at St. Mary, I am very much looking forward to working with all of you at St. Fabian to benefit your students, the community’s most precious members. 

I have been blessed to know and love my wife, Lynda, whom I first met thirty-seven years ago (amazing!) and to whom I will have been married thirty-one years this coming August.  We have two wonderful children, Kevin and Laura, both married with families of their own.  When I’m not in the role of educator, I enjoy reading, sports, gardening, and music.

During the month of July, I can be reached via email at: jgilboe@stfabian.org, and beginning on August 3, I will be available in the school office with the exception of August 4, 5, 6, 10, and 11, due to principal meetings scheduled by the Archdiocese of Detroit.   

I look forward to meeting with all of you soon! 

                                                                                
John Gilboe

Mission Statement


St. Fabian Catholic School is a Eucharist-centered community that empowers the students to achieve academic excellence, in a safe nurturing environment.

Philosophy of St. Fabian School

St. Fabian School develops and educates the entire student in mind, body and spirit. 

St. Fabian School strives to utilize technological advancements and evolving methodology to educate its students. 

St. Fabian School respects and embraces a diverse student population.

St. Fabian School provides a setting where the administration, teachers, parents and students work together for the advancement of the entire school community.

St. Fabian School promotes Catholic social teaching, values and morals which are reflected in the curriculum and climate.