magazine

De La Salle Magazine
Fall 2015
Editor
Michael K. Walsh
Photography
De La Salle Archives
Root Studios/HR Imaging
Michael K. Walsh
Contributing Authors
Christopher Ahearn
Iris Gist Cochran
Paul Dirschl
La Toya Keys
Michael K. Walsh
Designer
Jacqueline Daniels
Printer
M&G Graphics
De La Salle Magazine is published
three times a year by De La Salle
Institute’s Office for Advancement.
The 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 to
dmagazine@dls.org
To receive this magazine
electronically, please send an
email to dmagazine@dls.org.
As a high school with as rich a tradition as ours, we know a thing or two
(or three) about achieving milestones.
Celebrating 125 years of providing an outstanding, Lasallian secondary
education to the students of Chicago? Check.
Incorporating Tablet PC technology into our curriculum and classrooms?
We were the first school to start that back in 2006 and it’s going very well.
Becoming one of two co-institutional high schools in the country? Did
that 13 years ago.
As justifiably proud as we are of our past accomplishments, we feel it’s
necessary to keep moving, progressing and growing. It’s time for us to
achieve our next goal.
And what a wonderfully historic goal it is!
De La Salle President
Fr. Paul Novak
With our Board of Directors setting an aggressive agenda of innovation and transformation, De La
Salle will merge our campuses and become a co-educational high school beginning with the 2017-18
school year.
While six of our classes are currently co-educational, in two years all of our classes will be coeducational.
As all of our students will be attending classes at 3434 S. Michigan, we want to make our Institute
Campus the best learning environment possible for our Meteors.
With that in mind, we will be embarking on a capital campaign that will allow De La Salle to remain
at the forefront of secondary education in Chicago.
Since De La Salle took ownership of the property on the northeast corner of 35th and Michigan,
it’s been our fervent hope and dream that someday we could expand our campus with classrooms,
offices, a new theatre and retail space in a sparkling new facility that would be used by everyone at
De La Salle as well as the local community.
The time has arrived to make that dream a reality.
We need everyone within the De La Salle community to make a commitment and an investment so
that we can accomplish our vision.
Maintaining our roots in the same location on 35th Street while continuing to grow and develop as
one of the top high schools in the Chicago area is something in which everyone at De La Salle has a
great deal of pride.
This is an exciting time to be a Meteor and we would love for you to play a significant part in our
success. Please join us and help De La Salle continue thriving as the place where the past is cherished
and great futures begin.
May God bless you and those you love with peace, health and happiness this fall.
St. John Baptist de La Salle, pray for us!
Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us!
Live Jesus in Our Hearts, Forever!
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.
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