1 TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s Letter ............................................................................................................................. 3 Principal’s Letter ............................................................................................................................... 4 Advancing the Mission Donors ..................................................................................................... 5 Torch Chairman’s Letter .................................................................................................................. 7 Tradition Meets Innovation .......................................................................................................... 8 Bro. Richard passes the Torch and reflects ............................................................................... 10 Empowering Our Students, Endowing Our Future Alumni Donors .................................... 12 Class of 1993 25th Reunion ........................................................................................................ 16 Teaching Tools ................................................................................................................................ 22 Class of 1968 50th Reunion ........................................................................................................ 26 Empowering Our Students, Endowing Our Future Parent Donors .................................... 29 Campus Collaboration .................................................................................................................. 34 Empowering Our Students, Endowing Our Future CAPA Donors ...................................... 37 General Peter Pace Establishes Scholarship for Fallen Graduate ........................................ 40 Robert Ahlstrom ’81 ...................................................................................................................... 46 Empowering Our Students, Endowing Our Future Grandparent Donors .......................... 49 Empowering Our Students, Endowing Our Future Friend / Corporate Donors .............. 50 Empowering Our Students, Endowing Our Future Foundation Donors ........................... 51 Presidential Scholarship Program .............................................................................................. 52 Anthony Earley ’67 ......................................................................................................................... 53 Financial Report .............................................................................................................................. 54 Honor and Memorial Gifts ........................................................................................................... 56 Legacy Circle ................................................................................................................................... 57 About Chaminade ......................................................................................................................... 58 About the Class of 2018 .............................................................................................................. 59 Administration ................................................................................................................................ 60 Program of Studies ........................................................................................................................ 61 Geographic Distribution ............................................................................................................... 62 Board and Committee Leadership .............................................................................................. 65 Ways to Give ................................................................................................................................... 67 2 2018 ANNUAL REPORT Dear Chaminade Family, Chaminade senior Dylan Richardson believes I just returned from visiting our new Dolan Family the science center better prepares him for his Science, Technology, and Research Center. Since it career ambitions: opened in September, I have made it a point to visit several labs each week, as both teachers and students “I am planning on studying engineering in college, and settle into this new and extraordinary facility. Last week, I saw students work on a lab developed the science building is preparing me for this in ways that by Brianna O’Neill, Ph.D. and Karen Kuntz, Ph.D., could never have been done in the old physics lab. The directors of research at Chaminade. Today, I watched results of our experiments are accurate and precise, and as seniors in Bro. Benjamin’s physics class tested the they are collected by equipment used by professionals velocity of an object and in the real world. The labs teach us about how small studied the changes can have big effects on the outcome. This is an impact of dif- important lesson for future engineers like me to under- ferent vari- stand and better informs my own future choices.” ables. I have to say, the equipment Our students are understanding science in new was really ways. They are engaged in their projects and excited COOL! And, to discover the results. This is why we built the sci- the more I ence center. This is the impact of your generosity in observed action. After all, it is only because ofyou that these the seniors experiments are possible. It is your support that working in brings this real-world innovation to life. The consider- their lab able man hours and dollars we invested in this new groups, the facility will help our students learn better today so “cooler” they can lead with confidence tomorrow. things got. More important than the new equipment After all, that is what Chaminade’s mission is and was the teamwork. Each student had a defined role has been for almost 90 years: educating young men in in the lab, each had to produce for the benefit of the an academically challenging, faith-filled Catholic en- whole, each had a responsibility to fulfill for his class- vironment. Our job is to challenge them in new ways, mates. In the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, “No to make them better than they thought they could be. man is an island entire unto himself.” This was proven I shouldn’t call it a job…it is a vocation, a passion to in the lab. bring our vision to reality. As I continued to observe the lab project, I was more Thank you for sharing that vision with us. The and more impressed with the work our directors of results of your generosity can be proven and mea- research and our faculty have put into developing the sured directly through the experiences of students new courses for the science center. New tools weren’t like Dylan and every Chaminade man who completes a just thrown in front of our students without direction. lab in the science center. They understand themselves No. The theory behind the experiment was explained, and their world in a more complete way now. These the equipment that they were going to use was ex- are the dividends of your generosity. Our young men plained, and then, and only then, did our students dive are Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow for certain. into the actual experiment, collecting data that went If you find yourself in Mineola one day, please drop directly to their iPads. in and say hello – that’s what families do! If available, I I asked one of our students, “How did the informa- will personally give you a tour of the new science cen- tion appear immediately (I didn’t see any wire con- ter if you haven’t been there yet. It’s already making necting the iPad to the lab equipment)? His response: the Chaminade experience better than ever. “We created a Wi-Fi hot spot at our table to harness the data directly from the equipment to our iPads.” Fortes in Unitate, His data was then shared via Google Slides with his lab partners. OK – VERY, very cool! Now, they can measure velocity and instantly examine how changes in angle of launch and pressure at launch affect Bro. Thomas J. Cleary, S.M. ’81 velocity and distance. President PRESIDENT’S LETTER 3 Dear Members of the Chaminade Family, of our students participated in at least one sport or “The purpose of the school is to impart a thoroughly activity; many were involved in two or more. Two key Christian education; the aim is to develop the boy physi- aspects of a Marianist education are spiritual growth cally, mentally, and morally.” and apostolic outreach. Hundreds of students are These words from Chaminade’s first profile have involved in the spiritual, apostolic, and service activi- remained the guiding principle of our mission since ties of the school, such as Sodality, Emmaus, the Parish 1930. In recent years, we have experienced tremen- Religious Education Program, retreats, and evenings dous growth in all facets of the Marianist mission at of recollection. Chaminade. We have been truly blessed with such an Our Flyers captured 29 season and league outpouring of support from so many of you: our par- championships. ents, alumni, alumni parents, friends, and benefactors. • Varsity soccer players won the league and state Chaminade continues to fulfill its mission because of championships for the fourth consecutive year! you and the many dedicated members of our staff. • Bowlers earned their seventh straight league While the goals of the mission have not changed, championship. the methods used to fulfill it constantly evolve. Over • The crew team took 14th out of 85 boats in the the past two years,