RJ Stangherlin

Keystone Technology Integrator and STAR Discovery Educator

This site is for Mrs. Stangherlin's classes at Salisbury High School.

Meet Mr. McMahon

Young, energetic, global traveler, human rights activist--he’s Mr. McMahon, a senior English and Education major from DeSales University, where his sister, a freshman, also attends.  He graduated from Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, NJ (between Trenton and Princeton) His interests are highly diversified, as his students are discovering.  He draws and paints, preferring acrylics.  He also knows how to read drawings to “scale,” so guess who’s reading the IP stage set designs.  Mr. McMahon is also an accomplished photographer.  Throughout high school, he acted in the plays, and his favorite role was Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace. He loves to read, with Whitman, Dostoevsky, Vonnegut, and Albee ranking among his favorites.  A music lover, “almost to the point of obsession,” his current preferences: Brit Rock: Arctic Monkeys, The Fratellis, The Kooks, and Jamie T.  From this point onward, I’d like him to speak for himself.

“My passions in life, besides books, are traveling and human rights (the best is when I can combine the two).  I have traveled all over America and to 18 countries, including: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Mexico, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, India, Egypt, Turkey, Croatia, Spain, and Peru.  Thirteen of those countries I visited when I spent a semester abroad with the program Semester at Sea.  In the realm of Human Rights, I feel compelled both to spread the word on world-wide injustice and go and personally contribute to ending injustice.  This year I helped co-found a new club on my campus called Advocated 4 Awareness.  Each month we select a specific injustice and sponsor events on campus that let people know that these things are happening and what we can do to stop them.  As president, I plan the events as well as take charge of the funding.  I am also very active on campus in other ways.  I am president of the senior class and secretary for the Student Activities Club.  In the summer I am a counselor for our overnight camp for underprivileged Hispanic middle and high school students.”

Mr. McMahon is one of those rare finds who actually walks his talk.  His next stop after graduation: summer in Africa working with AIDS / HIV victims.  Will he enter the teaching profession--I certainly hope so.