Executive
“Love follows knowledge.”
-St. Thomas Aquinas
Father Daniel O’Mullane, President-Rector
Rev. Daniel O’Mullane, STL, EdS, graduated magna cum laude from Boston College with a BA in Economics and Theology. He was then sent to Rome for priestly formation at two of the world’s foremost theological institutions – the Gregorian University and the Alphonsian Academy – where he earned his STB and completed his STL in Moral Theology. Most recently, he earned a Specialist Degree in Education at Seton Hall University, graduating with commendations.
Father O’Mullane has served the Diocese of Paterson in a number of different roles, including Parochial Vicar in Rockaway and Montville, Chaplain and Theology Teacher at Pope John XXIII High School in Sparta, Adjunct Professor of Theology at Seton Hall University, and Censor Librorum for the diocese. He is currently the pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a parish of 900 families.
Mr. Dan Finnegan, Headmaster- Academics
Dan Finnegan attended University of Notre Dame and The University of Dallas, focusing on political theory, philosophy, and theology. After a career in human services, Mr. Finnegan taught ESL and Latin and served as an administrator at Dublin School, a private boarding school in New Hampshire, for seven years before moving into higher education. He taught as a fulltime preceptor for six years at the Institute for English Language Programs at Harvard University Extension School, focusing on delivering liberal arts instruction to a diversity of students, from Harvard and the wider community.
After six years at Great Hearts Academies where he taught 4th grade, Humane Letters, and served as Academic Dean, Mr. Finnegan was “traded” to True North as the Humane Letters Program Specialist, where he implemented the Humane Letters Program in a custom model.
Mrs. Eileen Vandenberg, Headmistress- Operations
Eileen Vandenberg, Operations Manager, is the mother of three children who attend OLMC and Lumen Gentium Academy. She also runs her husband’s dental practice and is a former Classical Catholic, homeschool co-op leader. As the Operations Manager, she oversees anything and everything that goes into running OLMC school facilities, the admittance process of students, attendance, tuition and financial matters, front desk coverage, etc. This “I’m never going to teach” rebel graduated with honors in dual majors of psychology and linguistics at Rutgers University. She went on for a Master’s in communication sciences and disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Institute of Health Care Professions. After a career as a speech-language pathologist in a variety of settings, her dream of motherhood fulfilled, and a bunch of travel under her belt, she found Xanadu at OLMC. With every fiber of her being, she attempts to emulate Mother Teresa’s life of ‘small things with great love.’ Outside of OLMC school, she devotes much of her time to OLMC parish.