DAVID J. MCCUSKER, JR.

DAVID J. MCCUSKER, JR. has been selected as the next head of school at Manlius Pebble Hill School (MPH), effective July 1. He will be replacing Jim Dunaway, who announced last June that he would be retiring at end of the 2018-2019 school year, at the age of 70. McCusker was previously head of school at the Cardigan Mountain School, where he served for nine years before taking on his current position as director of advancement for school year abroad. Before Cardigan, he served as director of development for two independent schools, St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire and The Park School in Massachusetts. McCusker is a graduate of two of the schools he has worked at — Cardigan Mountain and St. Paul’s. And, he received a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College.