FIELD of REAMS from the PRESIDENT’S OFFICE As I Begin My 10Th Year As the President of De La Salle Institute, We Truly Thank Mr
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FALL 2018 MAGAZINE A PUBLICATION FOR ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF DE LA SALLE INSTITUTE FIELD OF REAMS FROM THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE As I begin my 10th year as the president of De La Salle Institute, We truly thank Mr. Carroll Harrison ’64 for his incredibly I reflect back on all that has taken place at our school during generous posthumous gift that made this possible. that timeframe. On an everyday basis, we have students who are excelling in the With significant milestones such as our becoming a classroom in our college preparatory program featuring three coeducational campus at the beginning of the 2017-18 school academic avenues and are being educated and challenged by year to the implementation of the “Project Lead the Way” an excellent and dedicated faculty that is committed solely to engineering curriculum to the creation of Harrison Hall and the success of our Meteors. Joseph D. Parente ‘84 Field, as well as the renovations of These students are taking a wide variety of classes including the Parmer Activity Center, this is assuredly an exciting and Introduction to Engineering and Design, Robotics and App beneficial time to be a Meteor. Development and doing very well. Regardless of the venue, there is one common thread that runs As we look ahead to the upcoming holiday season that is just throughout our campus: this decade of exceptional progress and weeks away, we do so filled with gratitude and appreciation growth could not have taken place without two significant factors. that De La Salle continues to maintain and solidify its position Those factors are your generous support and your unwavering as the best high school in the Chicagoland area as well as the belief in the mission of Lasallian education. The fervent state of Illinois. involvement of those who care about De La Salle and have made our young women and men one of the highest priorities is the On behalf of everyone associated with De La Salle, we truly reason that all of these plans have come to fruition. thank you for your generosity, dedication and commitment to our school. It is with partners such as yourself that De La Salle As you can see by the wonderful picture on the cover of the can continue to grow and thrive. magazine, we are blessed to have the Joseph D. Parente ’84 Athletic Field that features a Field Turf surface that will host many May God’s blessings be upon you and your families as we athletic contests, band, cheerleading and dance competitions prepare for the coming new year. and other events in the future. In fact, we held our first outdoor St. John Baptist de La Salle, pray for us! pep rally on the field this fall and it was a great success. We Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us! sincerely thank Mr. Parente and his family for their outstanding gift and exemplary dedication and commitment to the Meteors. Live Jesus in Our Hearts, Forever! We are also blessed to have the brand-new Harrison Hall atop the newly-renovated Parmer Activity Center. There is a fitness center, along with yoga, multipurpose and wrestling rooms and offices De La Salle President that will certainly be put to good use by the Meteor community. Fr. Paul Novak Mission Statement De La Salle Institute is an independent Catholic secondary school rooted in the tradition of Christian education begun by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Founded in 1889, its mission has been, and is, to foster a desire for excellence in education. Young people from a variety of ethnic and economic backgrounds are given the opportunity to fully develop their abilities so they may be active, contributing members of our complex, changing society. DE LA SALLE MAGAZINE: FALL 2018 Editor Authors Photography Designer Institute Campus Michael K. Walsh Christopher Ahearn De La Salle Archives Nichole Flynn 3434 South Michigan Avenue Iris Gist Cochran Root Studios/ Chicago, IL 60616-3898 Printer Michael K. Walsh HR Imaging M&G Graphics P 312.842.7355; F 312.842.4142 Michael K. Walsh Tolton Adult Literacy Center 2235 South Albany Avenue Chicago, IL 60623 De La Salle Magazine is published three times a year by De La Salle Institute’s Office for Advancement. The P 312.747.3471 purpose of this publication is to unite the Christian Brothers, alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff and friends together in De La Salle’s mission of excellence in education. All submissions or comments should be directed www.dls.org to [email protected]. To receive this magazine electronically, please send an email to [email protected]. TABLE OF CONTENTS ACADEMICS A Dynamic Decade at De La Salle: 2008-2018 4-7 Carroll S. Harrison ’64 Hall and Joseph D. Parente ’84 Field Established 8-9 Q&A with Principal Diane Brown 10 Schoology Introduced 11 Michael Dieter Named New Learning 21 Services Coordinator 11 Test Rocker Arrives at De La Salle 12 DEVELOPMENT New Teachers at ‘D’! 13 Establishing a Charitable Legacy 20-21 Meteors Spend Summer Going Global 14-15 Big Shoulders Fund Continues Commitment 21 Future Looks Bright – Colleges for the Class of 2018 16 Illinois Tax Credit Scholarship Program 22 Meteors Participate in Honors Bishop Rojas Celebrates Mass of the Holy Spirit 23 Independent Research Project 17 Tolton Center Update 23 Alumni Scrapbook 18-19 Dan Dowling Receives Lewandowski Sabbatical 24 Summer Trip to Blackfeet 25 Alumni Success Story: Dr. Charles Bell ’06 26-27 Career Day a Success 28 Blue-Gold Golf Invitational Recap 29 8 123rd Alumni Banquet 30-31 Newsnotes 32-33 In Memoriam 33 ATHLETICS Meteor Fall Sports Roundup 34-35 11 14 23 30 35 DE LA SALLE INSTITUTE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2018-2019 Chairman Members Mr. La Rue Martin, Jr. ‘68 Extollo Educational Foundation Mr. Paul D. McCoy ‘68 Mr. Marshall A. Blake Ms. Sharon R. O’Brien Board of Directors Vice Chairman Mr. George A. Bonomo ‘59 Mr. Joseph D. Parente ‘84 President Mr. Prentiss J. Jackson ‘67 Mr. Steven W. Burrows ‘91 Mr. Michael J. Passarelli ‘90 Mr. Michael G. Bansley ‘53 Mr. Victor M. Chavarria ‘69 Mr. Chad N. Strader Vice President President’s Council Mr. Eugene L. Ferretti Mr. Michael A. Tadin ‘69 Mr. James R. Woodrow ‘53 Honorable William J. Aukstik ‘64 Dr. Robert O. Graham ‘64 Mrs. Cathryn P. Taylor Secretary/Treasurer Mr. Michael G. Bansley ‘53 Honorable Patrick M. Huels ‘67 Mr. Thomas L. Taylor Mr. Michael F. Hickey ‘56 Mr. Michael F. Hickey ‘56 Brother Michael Kadow, FSC Mr. Mark A. Tomassini ‘88 Mr. James R. Woodrow ‘53 Dr. Scott A. Kier Mr. James A. Vanek ‘64 Alumni Association President Adam B. Chavarria ’92 A DYNAMIC DECADE AT DE LA SALLE: 2008-2018 ACADEMICS While sustaining its high standards of excellence in the classroom, De La Salle has smoothly made the transition from being a co-institutional Lasallian high school to a coeducational high school at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year. Other academic highlights in the last decade include: • Providing 8 online courses to prepare students for college • Sustaining the Honors Independent Research Projects in which students write 12-15 page papers as juniors • Increasing credits from 23 to 26 to allow our students and provide an oral defense presentation as seniors to have more elective opportunities before a panel of faculty members • Creating a “Maker’s Lab” for those students interested • Offering Mandarin Chinese as part of our foreign in entrepreneurial studies language curriculum • Establishing a robotics program and club that competes • Establishing our international student program with underwater and on land Meteors from a variety of countries • Purchasing a Phantom drone called “Meteor One” • Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the award-winning that has become an integral part of De La Salle’s Theatre 100 program in 2017 technology program • Adding 3-D printers to the curriculum to enable students to express their creativity in design • Strengthening our STREAM curriculum by initiating “Project Lead the Way” which enables De La Salle to offer our students courses in engineering • Naming Diane Brown the first female principal in the school’s 129-year history • Lauding 137 students as Illinois State Scholars • Watching 2,728 Meteors graduate since 2008 • Having our students earn approximately $32 million dollars in college scholarships • Enrolling our graduates in prestigious colleges and universities such as the University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, DePaul University, Boston College and the University of Kansas. In all, our graduates have attended over 12,600 different colleges and universities 4 ACADEMICS The last 10 years have been a period of sustained and substantial growth at De La Salle. From becoming coeducational at the beginning of the 2017-18 school year to establishing the Project Lead the Way engineering curriculum to the creation of Carroll S. Harrison ’64 Hall and Joseph D. Parente ’84 Field, many wonderfully exciting things have taken place at our school. Here are the highlights of academics, our Lasallian mission, athletics and campus facilities in the last 10 years, as well as our future plans. LASALLIAN MISSION ATHLETICS Since 1889, De La Salle Institute has Whether it’s in the Chicago Catholic League for our young men or the Girls thrived with its foundation of faith, service Catholic Athletic Conference for our young women, our Meteors are always and community. These three tenets have competitive and willing to meet any challenge and provide their best efforts. allowed our school to grow in its Lasallian Being a member of a De La Salle athletic team allows our students to learn identity as we educate young men and about teamwork, goal-setting and winning and losing with grace and dignity.