Union Magazine - Fall 2015

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“Innovation...”

Celebrating the Class of 2015 Fall 2015

De La Salle Academy Completes First Year Alumni Making a Difference L The Brotherhood of the Spartan Is Like No Other L

Message from the President

Dear Friends of De La Salle,

Mark DeMarco ’78 President

We have been blessed and given so much in our lives...

What an amazing year ahead as we celebrate our 50th Anniversary! We as an entire community have so much to be thankful for in knowing that we are celebrating 50 years on Winton Drive. It is by God’s amazing Grace and the vision of Saint John Baptist de La Salle that we are where we are today as a school. As I write this I guess I am feeling a little old—okay really old; I remember well my freshman year here in 1974. Each of you reading this edition of the Union have your own unique memories and experiences of our school. If you would like to share them with us, please do—we might share some of them in our next Union.

As many of you know, the 50th Anniversary Campaign is in full swing.

Like in 1965 when we started with a new school building, we continue to enhance the quality of the education offered here with the opening of the STREAM Innovation Center, which opened on August 12th. What an amazing feat to accomplish in just 14 months—on time and on budget. We have been blessed by so many benefactors and donors to our school over the past 50 years; we would not be where we are today without your support. This Campaign is focused on support from everyone—gifts big and small—widespread support from all who believe in the wonder of this school and how it has transformed lives. In our final push on the STREAM Innovation Center, we have $4.5 million to raise, and we hope to have all gifts and pledge commitments received

by December 31 of this year. Your support is critical as the school moves forward with this Capital Campaign effort. Once we have the STREAM Innovation Center completely funded, we will be able focus on the third phase of the Campaign—The Athletic Performance Center.

I have always been of the mindset, “No Mission, No Money; No Money, No Mission;” and what a fine balance this is.

We have been blessed and given so much in our lives, and I hope that De La Salle High School and the Lasallian Mission have been a major factor in your success. If this has been the case, we would hope that you would help fund the Mission.

In this issue you will see the results of another successful year and where our new alumni will be going to school. You will also read about what other graduates have been doing after they graduated and have created ways to work with their families.

You will see “innovation” at work in a variety of ways. I hope you enjoy reading the pages of this magazine—we trust that you see how the Mission is alive on Winton Drive because of your continued support.

In the spirit of Saint John Baptist de La Salle,

Mark DeMarco ’78 President

You are Invited. This is your invitation to contact me directly regarding your support of the 50th Anniversary Campaign. I would be happy to meet with you personally and give you a tour of the new STREAM Innovation Center. Your investment in this endeavors means a lot to the future of De La Salle. You can reach me directly at (925)288-8112 or demarcom@dlshs.org.

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PRESIDENT’S CABINET Mark DeMarco ’78 President

Brother Robert J. Wickman, F.S.C. Principal

WHAT’S IN THIS ISSUE

Lynne Jones Chief Financial Officer

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Contact Karla Wiese at wiesek@dlshs.org Editor: Karla Wiese

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Text: Mark DeMarco ’78, J. A. Gray, Brian Marchetti ’91, Marilyn Paquette, Karla Wiese

Photos: Brother Lawrence Haley, FSC, De La Salle photo library, De La Salle Academy.

Read the Union online at www.dlshs.org

The De La Salle “Union” is a bond of unity for the extended De La Salle family — alumni, parents, alumni parents and the many friends who make up our school’s growing family.

The School Seal

The school seal is an important part of the identity of De La Salle High School.

The symbols used to make up the seal have particular meanings that reflect the values and purpose of the school. In the center of the seal is the Chi Rho (Kye Row). This is the Greek abbreviation of the title “Christ.” The first two letters of the word Christos or “Christ” are “Chi” and “Rho,” represented in the Greek alphabet as a capital “X” and “P.” The fleur-de-lis, with “lis” meaning lily in French, reminds us of our French origins with Saint John Baptist de La Salle. The lamp is a symbol of knowledge, reminding us of our primary purpose as a school — education. The section of broken chain represents freedom — freedom from ignorance. The chain surrounding the seal signifies strength and unity. “Les Hommes de Foi” is French for “Men of Faith.”

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The Class of 2015 College bound

The Candyfan - Joe Reynolds De La Salle Academy

Zack Moranville redefine special STREAM to the Finish Line

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2014 - 2015 Parent Honor Roll of Donors

2014 - 2015 Alumni Honor Roll of Donors

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Smart Audits for CPAs In Memoriam

What’s happening, classes?

Alumnus of the year and Athletic Hall of Fame Induction

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Sports Overview

About the cover: The STREAM (Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) Innovation Center is now open! The STREAM Center project was completed on time and on budget at a cost of $20.5 million. De La Salle students were welcomed into the building on the first day of school, August 12, 2015. While the building is available for use today, there is still work yet to be done. Read more on pages 16-17 about how you can help us “STREAM to the Finish Line” and complete this amazing effort!

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Congratulations to the class of 2015

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President’s remarks to Class of 2015

rom past graduation talks I have learned that as graduates you are not really focused on what I will say. So I thought perhaps I should ask a few of you to stand when I call your name to answer a random question – think of this as your final, final exam – first question: What is the first verb in our Mission Statement? Now that I have your attention…

After four years here the world is waiting for you – college – graduate school – a job – a family – how will you fare? What type of virtues do you want to be known for – résumé virtues or eulogy virtues?

In a recent article in The New York Times, David Brooks wrote about this when he said…

“The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you were kind, a man of integrity, honest or faithful.”

We all know that the eulogy virtues are more important than the résumé ones. But our culture and our country’s educational system spends more time teaching the skills and strategies you need for career success rather than the qualities you need to radiate that sort of inner light. More of us know how to build an external career than how to build inner character.

I hope we as a school have done both for you, but with a

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heavy emphasis on the latter – on building inner character. It is the eulogy virtues that are most important to us at De La Salle – partnering with your parents in developing your character.

We live in the culture of the Big Me. The world is telling you to promote yourself.

Social media wants you to broadcast a highlight reel of your life – a selfie.

Commencement speakers are always telling young people to follow their passions. Be true to yourself.

This is a vision of life that begins with you and ends with you.

Don’t fall into that trap. On the road to happiness you are

campus news news campus not going to find your vocation by asking, “What do I want from life?” You are going to find it by asking these questions: “What is life asking of me? How can I match my talents with what the world needs?”

I urge you to focus on WE and not ME. And as we focus on WE – I would be remiss in my duties as President not to speak about the new building that is behind me. The STREAM Innovation Center behind me is the result of four years of patience and persistence from concept to completion this summer – the same amount of time our graduates have been here. As we approach our 50th year of educating young men, WE need to ensure that others have the same opportunity to share in this Catholic Lasallian education. It takes a concerted effort by all of us to ensure our ministry continues.

One of Jesus’ most famous sermons was the Sermon on the Mount. The adaptation for today is the Sermon on the Amount. What has this school meant to you? What has this school done for your son - your grandson? The 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign goal of $50,000,000 at 50 years old, which our school will be next year, is a testament to how we as a community can ensure the success of the of the school for the next 50 years. Some members of this class

Mark DeMarco ’78, president

have asked how they could help build the future of the school. We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources God has given you – your energy, your prayers, and your financial support – in this work to which God has called us.

And for those of you who are still wondering what the first verb in our Mission Statement is – it is “loved.”

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This is a day of contradictions, of

being pulled in two directions. It’s

natural to feel a bit conflicted as a

result. We focus on the past---what

has been accomplished.

We focus on the future---hopes and

plans not yet realized.

Our thoughts of the past bring a

mixture of satisfaction and regret.

Our thoughts of the future bring

confidence and, perhaps, some fear

of the unknown.

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And all of this is, I think, just as it

should be.

- Brother Robert J. Wickman, F.S.C.

Mr. Hofmann receiving his honorary diploma from Brother Robert Wickman, FSC as a member of the Class of 2015.

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Go forth with a strong sense of self and, I pray, an even stronger sense of we.

My brothers of the Class of 2015: I joined when you arrived as freshmen in 2011 and I returned to De La Salle to serve as principal again after having left here in 1998. What a group you have been with which to resume my life at our school. I have seen you grow. I have seen you change. I have seen you succeed. I have seen you fail. You have had many good, admirable, and maturing moments. You have had moments, not too many I think, where some moved away from what was the right, the difficult, or the brave action to take. In other words—you lived the human condition in all its satisfactions and disappointments. I have witnessed and been part of a process of transformation that no other four-year period of your life will likely ever equal. What a story of transformation it has been.

Family and friends, each of these young men has a story. Each story has its distinctiveness. We embrace the person behind each story.

We treasure each one.

But that’s not all. No, there is another narrative that has been building here on this campus for the past four years. It is a powerful force.

It is one built on trust and brotherhood. It is the shared story of the Class of 2015. Like the individual stories of our graduates, it has had its share of ups and downs. And, like those individual stories, it traces an arc that leads to maturity, wisdom, and courage. And it echoes with those foundational themes of our school—faith, integrity, and scholarship.

Gentlemen of the Class of 2015, I praise you much this morning.

If I criticize, it is just a little. But more than anything else, I think of you as my brothers and brothers to each other. Long after GPAs and term paper deadlines; long after athletic and artistic triumphs and defeats; long after enthusiasms and boredom, there is you—individuals and classmates—now, I hope and pray—brothers for life.

Your life in the 21st century marches on. Continue on the many paths offered to you and also those you have created or will, all the while remembering God’s holy presence, having Jesus live in your hearts, trusting in the Lord, and in the power of the brotherhood in which you now have a lifetime membership. Go forth today with the blessings and love of our faculty and staff, the continuing care and affection of your family and friends, and the good news of God’s faithfulness to you.

Go forth with a strong sense of self and, I pray, an even stronger sense of we. If you do, you will have a great legacy as the Class of 2015.

May God bless each and every one of you today and especially the Class of 2015 who now join the ranks of over 8,000 Spartan alumni.

May peace be always with you. Congratulations! We love you all.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great pride and deep gratitude that I present to you today a new member, a new brother, of the Class of 2015 to receive his honorary diploma from our Salutatorian Matthew Schumann and Valedictorian Olu Osiaghie. I am honored to present to you Mr. Ken Hofmann of the Class of 2015.

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We will shake hands with those teachers and adults who have helped shape our character and our future.

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Our hands once quivered in fear and apprehension, but on this day, we shake hands with the confidence and steady resolve of a De La Salle graduate. With pride for all that we have accomplished alongside one another and all that we will continue to accomplish in the coming years. With gratitude for the blessings the De La Salle community has graciously bestowed on us during our four years at this school - a gift that laid the groundwork for our future, forever indebting us to the people who dedicated their lives to the educating and nurturing of young men like ourselves. We shake hands in solidarity with those whom we have helped over the years in Concord, Salinas, San Diego, San Francisco, Guatemala, and Eritrea. And in silent prayer that God may guide each of us throughout the rest of our lives and that we may use our gifts to better the community that has bonded together to enrich us with an experience unlike any other.

As you celebrate today with your friends and family, remember all they have sacrificed for you, and extend your hand thanking them for the years of support they have selflessly provided. Actress Audrey Hepburn once said, "As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."

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Matthew M. Schumann, salutatorian

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Don't leave this world without reaching out and touching those around you.

I thought about all the memories that stuck out to me from my high school experience. Images from the past flashed through my mind. I was a freshman at a rally, crying out, "We are Sparta!" as the famous clip from the movie “300” played on the projector. I was a sophomore at a liturgy, offering my fellow students the sign of peace at the request of Fr. LaSalle. I was a junior in the band, watching the state championship football game, feeling the sadness and frustration that washed over the crowd as the Spartans were defeated for the first time in years. I was a senior, staring at the new STREAM Building, glad to see its progress, but regretting the fact that I would never take a single class in it. I was a freshman, or a sophomore, or a junior, or maybe a senior, laughing madly at the Christmas rally as "The Twelve Days of Christmas" inevitably descended into incoherent screaming.

So I challenge you, my fellow graduating seniors, to take what you've learned at this school and carry it with you into the world. Find your place in this modern order. Use your own talents and abilities to contribute to the foundation built up by those who came before us. Remember your commitment to service, your commitment to being a man of faith, integrity, and scholarship, your commitment to building an inclusive community, to the dignity of the poor and vulnerable. No matter what it is that you find yourself doing, do it with the skill and dedication of a master craftsman.

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There are 245 students in the graduating class. Of those, 243 (99%) will attend colleges, universities, or two-year colleges. One student will enter the military and one student’s plans are undecided. The 213 students attending four-year colleges (87% of the class) will be in 30 states, Washington DC and British Columbia, Canada. Students applied to an average of 7.4 schools, and had an average acceptance rate of 56%. 29 students (12% of the class) were recruited for athletics at 4-year schools, and at least 67 students (27% of the class) received other types of merit scholarships.

Of four-year colleges in California, students are attending 28 schools: 15 public, and 13 private, for a total of 102 students, 42% of the class.

Public CA (64 students) CSU’s (22% of class): Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (12) CSU Channel Islands (1) CSU Chico (5) CSU East Bay (5) CSU Fresno (1) CSU Fullerton (1) CSU Sacramento (6) San Diego State University (9) San Francisco State University (8) San Jose State University (1) Sonoma State University (7)

Private CA (38 students) (16% of class): Art Center College of Design (1) UC UC Azusa Pacific University (1) UC California Baptist University (1) UC Chapman University (1) Dominican University (1) John Paul the Great Catholic University (1) Loyola Marymount University (2) University of the Pacific (1) University of Redlands (1) St. Mary’s College (15) University of San Diego (5) Santa Clara University (7) University of Southern California (1)

UC’s (3% of class): Davis (2) Los Angeles (2) Santa Barbara (2) Santa Cruz (2)

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Over half of the Fifty: Over half of the states of the Union will be feeling the Spartan spirit in the fall of 2015. Class of 2015 graduates entering four-year colleges will betake themselves to 30 states including California, Washington D.C. and British Columbia, Canada. Eighty seven percent of the class (213 graduates) will be attending four-year institutions: 102 of them are pursuing their studies in California, at 15 public schools and 13 private schools’ and 111 of them will scatter across the country to 30 public and 33 private schools.

Some Fun Facts about our Newest Alumni: There are 245 students in the graduating class. Of those, 243 (99%) will attend colleges, universities, or two-year colleges. One student will enter the military and one student’s plans are undecided as of this writing. Students applied to an average of 7.4 schools, and had an average acceptance rate of 56%. 29 students (12% of the class) were recruited for athletics at 4-year schools, and at least 67 students (27% of the class) received other types of merit scholarships. 28 students (11% of the class) are attending 2-year colleges in California and Texas for a total of 4 different schools.

Some of the schools with the highest number of De La Salle grads attending this fall: St. Mary’s College (15) Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (12) San Diego State University (9) University of Arizona (8) Santa Clara University (7) Sonoma State University (7)

Keep in touch, Class of 2015. We would love to hear updates on your college adventures.

Who knows – you could be featured in a future Union edition!

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Additionally, students were accepted at the following colleges and universities: Academy of Art University, American University, Baylor University, Bentley University, Brown University, California Lutheran University, California Maritime Academy, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, California State University, Dominguez Hills, California State University, Long Beach, California State University, Los Angeles, California State University, Monterey Bay, California State University, Northridge, California State University, San Marcos, California State University, Stanislaus, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, University of California, Merced, University of California, Riverside, University of California, San Diego, Central Washington University, Claremont McKenna College, Clemson University, College of the Holy Cross, College of William and Mary, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Concordia University-Irvine, University of Connecticut, University of Dayton, University of Denver, DePaul University, Drexel University, Eastern Washington University, Elon University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Emerson College, Fairfield University, Fort Lewis College, Franklin and Marshall College Geneva College, George Fox University, George Mason University, The George Washington University, Gettysburg College, Grand Canyon University, Grinnell College, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hofstra University, Humboldt State University, Idaho State University, University of Idaho, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, Iowa State University, Ithaca College, Jacksonville University, Kansas State University, Knox College, La Salle University, University of La Verne, Lewis & Clark College, Lincoln University, Lindenwood University, Loyola University Chicago, Loyola University Maryland, University of Maine, Manhattanville College, Marquette University, University of Maryland, College Park, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Menlo College, University of Miami, University of Mississippi, The University of Montana, Missoula, University of New Hampshire, New York University, University of North Dakota, Northeastern University, Northwest Christian University, Notre Dame de Namur University, Occidental College, Ohio Northern University, University of Oklahoma, Pepperdine University, Point Loma Nazarene University, Portland State University, Providence College, Purdue University, University of Richmond, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, St. Louis University, Saint Martin's University, University of San Francisco, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Seattle Pacific University, Seton Hall University, University of South Carolina, Southern Methodist University, St. Edward’s University, St. John’s University-Staten Island Campus, Stanford University, Syracuse University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Texas Tech University, Tufts University, Tulane University, United States Air Force Academy, United States Coast Guard Academy, United States Naval Academy, Utah State University, Villanova University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Military Institute, Washington State University, Western Oregon University, Western State Colorado University, Western Washington University, Whittier College, William Jessup University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Wyoming, Xavier University of Louisiana, Yale University.

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The Candyfan The Spirit of De La Salle’s Greatest Fan

by Brian Marchetti ’91 “Hey Babe!”

And with the familiar ring of those two words delivered to your ears with gusto, you already began to feel better.

There are men, and there is Superman; there are bowls, and there is the Super Bowl; there are stars, and there are superstars; there are fans, and there are superfans.

And then, there was Joe Reynolds, affectionately known the De La Salle Spartan community over as simply: “Hey Babe.”

What makes someone a superfan? Where does Brian Marchetti ’91 with Uncle Joe in Summer 1993 one go to become one? How long does it take?

When do they become one? The answers may lie where you least expect them. varsity football and baseball player recalls, “You’d look over Joseph Francis Reynolds was born on September, 22 on the sidelines and there he’d be, without fail. Short in 1938 to Irish-Catholic parents on the south side of Chicago. stature with sandy brown hair, wearing a white coat and He grew up in a humble home, along with his three sisters baseball cap. I don’t even think anyone knew his name. We and brother. Joe attended all-male Mount Carmel High just called him ‘Hey Babe’ because that’s how he always School, also of considerable national renown for their greeted you—with a big grin, and a ‘Hey babe!’” accomplishments on the gridiron. After a brief stint in the On a similar note, speaking to Joe’s omnipresence, former U.S. Air Force, he entered the banking sector and quickly Director of Athletics and rose to a management position longtime Defensive & Special at a prominent Chicago bank.

Teams Coordinator Terry Eidson In 1980, Joe along with his son, commented, “I will never forget Jim, relocated to the East Bay how many times I watched film where he continued his banking on Saturday and saw [him] career. Unfortunately, Joe cheering for the Spartans in the left corner of the end zone.” eventually fell on hard times. After Jim’s first two years at As Jim entered college in the Midwest, they remained De La Salle, he returned to Illinois to be with his mother, connected. And when Jim signed up with the U.S. Navy and finish out his high school career. It was a difficult time shortly after graduating from college in 1991, Joe was right for them, particularly for Joe. there cheering him on, as he had always been, no matter the It was during this period during the mid-80s, that Joe distance between them. As “Hey Babe” became more woven became embraced by De La Salle Athletics and its coaches, into the fabric of De La Salle in the early 90s, Jim began his as well as its players. As Joe Grupalo ’85, a former standout

“In short, “Hey Babe” was our spirit animal...”

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ascent in the Navy, first being chosen for AOCS (Aviation Officer Candidate School), and later, through the various stages of flight training programs from propeller planes…to jet planes… to catapulting off an aircraft carrier…and more precariously, to landing on one. As Jim neared his completion of flight training school, Joe was diagnosed with inoperable late-stage cancer.

Three months later he passed in peace on September 26, 1996, with family at his bedside.

At Joe’s Memorial Mass, Former Head Football Coach Bob Ladouceur eulogized him in part:

“First off, Joe was a lover of life, chronically upbeat and hopelessly cheerful. Forever loyal to the students and athletic life at De La Salle. He believed in the attempt and effort of doing good. Joe was unconditionally supportive of the students. The win/loss record or outcomes of games didn’t matter to Joe. Neither did the status or ability of a particular athlete. He loved and accepted all. It was the effort and courage of a young man putting forth his best effort was what Joe admired most. I was amazed at his ability to recall certain games and teams. But what amazed me most was his recollection of individuals.

Starters or non-starters, it didn’t matter—he either knew you or wanted to know you.

And for what purpose? Because Joe wanted to align himself with a winning program?—I think not. Joe believed in youth, and the power of youth. He understood and felt

the fire that burns in the heart of youth. That heart of passion, hopes, dreams and innocence. He felt that power and did everything he could to nurture, encourage and promote that power. From the snacks he passed out to the kids; to an uplifting pat on the rear; to the personal words of encouragement. Joe was an unwavering optimist. He found the silver lining in every situation.

As coaches often do, I used to lament certain situations as he would ask me, “How’s it going babe?” He would listen and then express his disapproval in my pessimism. But Joe believed in me…

The bottom line of Joe’s involvement was—he loved our kids. And I loved him for it. His random acts of kindness revealed his heart, and these will never be forgotten— another lesson learned.”

The late, former Walnut Creek Mayor and City Councilman Ron Beagley with Joe in July 1996

Interestingly, 19 years after Joe’s passing, former De La Salle All-American football scholar-athlete Travis Pfiefer ‘97, who continued his playing career at Stanford University, and who was a co-captain during the 1996 season, Joe’s final one with the DLS Football team, echoed a similar sentiment of belief and kindness as his former coach: “In short, “Hey Babe” was our spirit animal…The special ingredient he had was that he believed in us before he even knew you personally. He was so generous with his time…he was kind to me and he was FALL 2015 UNION

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enthusiastic about me, before I was even going to play on the field. I was a nobody and he treated me the same way he treated our captains—and that was big.”

The former and late Walnut Creek Mayor and City Councilman, Ron Beagley who also died of cancer less than a year after Joe’s passing, had this reflection:

“For in truth, Joe Reynolds was the same in death as he had been in life—supportive of others, buoyant of his contributions, loving of his son, and his own extended family, and grateful for every kindness showed to him. His faith carried the day for him.

Joe was a simple man. He was excited by things a more sophisticated person might view as trivial or mundane. He loved sports and he was a passionate fan for those teams fortunate enough to win his allegiance.

The same was true of his friends. My sense is that he really gave to others more than he took. I remember him telling me that he would let someone in the Forty Niners game for free (Joe was a 49ers gateman), but he always told that person that they needed to repay the kind deed to another. Does that sound just a little Christ-like?

I think so.

How does a Joe Reynolds affect us? Actually, the verve in our life comes from those around us. While we may not realize it at the time, we only grow mentally and spiritually if someone is willing to nurture our minds and spirits. I submit that Joe did that with his fellow human beings perhaps better than most of us.”

Coach Ladouceur with Joe in May 1996

present at countless athletic contests across the school year’s three seasons, but in cheering on his fellow classmates, and often, in leading the cheers himself. He recently recalled, “When you invest all that time with the teams, you really feel all of the emotions as they go. It was super cool to see the guys that I had watched from the end zone for the whole season, see them on [television] and see them win state. I couldn’t help but feel proud and that maybe having a good student section helped them out just a little bit.” From a personal perspective, he reflected, “I think being a part of the student section, and leading it, has definitely made me into a more confident person, who’s not afraid to say what I need to say.”

For more than a decade, Joe “Hey Babe” Reynolds was also not bashful in presence, cheer and example. His familiar rally call of “Tough defense! Aggressive offense! Keep the fire burning babe!” was heard booming from the sidelines for almost every home and away football game as well as many practices—despite being limited in terms of finances and transportation. However, his tireless service and positive support did not cease with the fall athletic season. During the winter, he transitioned to the baseline at basketball games with his distinctive cadence, cheer, and clap—even more audible in gyms. In the spring, at baseball games, he was along the foul line. But regardless of the season or squad, he handed out Bazooka Bubble Gum, Tootsie Rolls, and Smarties to anyone he met (often saying, “Take three for the Trinity!”) and injected the Spartans with boundless exuberance unlike any other. Joe had a rare gift to lift the spirits of De La Salle students, faculty, and everyone who came in contact with him.

“Take Three for the Trinity!”

In his memory, not long after his passing, the Department of Athletics launched the Joe Reynolds Fan of The Year Award “to honor his memory to a student that shows extraordinary spirit and support to DLS Athletics.” Last year’s recipient was Donovan Smith ’15, who also served as the head manager of the varsity baseball team. Donovan stood out (literally) by not only being

L to R: Brian ’91, Jim and Kevin ’96 in June 2003 on the flight deck of the USS John C. Stennis

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In the lead-up to a prominent game versus another highly ranked Bay Area opponent during the fall of 1993, the Contra Costa Times published this profile of Joe.

“Reynolds grew up idolizing Notre Dame, so it’s only natural he roots for De La Salle. The Lou Holtz lookalike is an institution at the school. To take him off the sideline on a Friday night would be like removing a goal post.

“There are three things I like to see,” he said. “No. 1, I don’t want to see anyone get seriously hurt on either side.

No. 2, I want to win. No. 3, if we lose, it’s only by a point.”

The 55-year-old is banking on No. 2, although he admits No. 3 is a possibility.

“Both teams have excellent offenses, but I feel it will come down to defense,” Reynolds said. “They have a very good defense, but our defense is better.”

What’s the only thing that would keep Reynolds from is usual post on the Spartan sideline?

“If I wasn’t alive,” he said.

Joe may no longer be on the sideline but his flame burns brightly, and his spirit, lives on.

Brian Marchetti, Ed.M., ’91, resides in Atlanta with his wife Melissa. Like many, he and his brother Kevin ’96, have untold fond memories of their uncle, “Hey Babe”. Joe is survived by his son, Jim Reynolds, who after serving 20 years, largely as a U.S. Naval Jet Aviator, retired a Commander, and now serves as Vice-President of Training &

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“Hey Babe” in his customary sideline position.

Here, at the Oakland Coliseum for the 1992 3A NCS Championship Game in which the Spartans defeated Pittsburg, 41-6

Development at Lineage Logistics in Colton, California. He resides in nearby Corona with his wife, Anna, and their three sons, Andrew (16), Michael (14) and Nicholas (10). As his father was, Jim is an avid Green Bay Packers, Notre Dame and De La Salle fan.

A Taste of De La Salle February 25, 2016 6 - 9 pm - $45 per person

Feature your restaurant or winery at this event!

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De La Salle Academy completes first year and a summer camp program in 2015!

De La Salle Academy began last August

with students coming in from sixteen

different schools. Much of our first year

at the Academy was spent learning

what it means to be a Young Spartan

and how to celebrate Brotherhood!

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e’re proud of the progress the Young Spartans made in just one year. The young men have grown academically, spiritually and socially. They have a true sense of the Spartan Brotherhood.

The first year of the Academy was filled with many success; including twenty-three of the thirty-four students earning Honor Roll for the second semester! We closed our school year in June recognizing select students from each class with an FSC Award: Young Man of Faith, Integrity and Scholarship. Each class voted to honor a student as the “Most Improved Brother.” All in all, the first year at De La Salle Academy was a wonderful time of growth and accomplishment.

Typically, most schools have summer break. Rather than having the entire summer away from school, the Young Spartans at De La Salle Academy participated in a mandatory, month-long, summer camp program this past July. Monday through Thursday summer camp mornings were filled with academic classes in Language Arts and Math. Each afternoon, following silent reading, the boys headed down to the Community Youth Center to practice good sportsmanship and brush up on agility skills.

Each Friday during summer camp, faculty and students headed off campus for Fun Friday Field Trips. From Diablo Valley Bowl in Concord, to Blackhawk Museum in Danville, to De Marillac Academy in San Francisco to the State Capitol in

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Sacramento, the Young Spartans had fun and learned a few things in the process!

Each class at De La Salle Academy was elated to experience an Oakland A’s game from a box suite!

Grades 5, 6 and 7 all built community, celebrated Brotherhood and enjoyed catered treats together. The games were a memorable experience for the students, as some of the boys had never been to a Major League Baseball game.

With our first year as a school completed in June, we anxiously welcomed a new class of Young Spartans to the Academy this summer! In July we welcomed eighteen new young men to De La Salle Academy to begin their journey as Young Spartans. The new students participated in a two-week Readiness Program where they were indoctrinated into the community with older brothers to show them the way. The students are looking forward to a time when the “Big Brothers” will be back and working with them during homework hour at the Academy.

Our last day of the summer camp program was spent touring our State Capitol in Sacramento. The boys were in awe of all that happens in our capitol. With a lot of hard work perhaps one of these Young Spartans will be able to serve the community as a State Representative!

If you are interested in seeing De La Salle Academy, please contact the school (925) 288-8200 to arrange a visit. The Young Spartans are always willing to share their school with our guests!

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Zach Moranville ’07 Helps to “Redefine Special”

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In the summer of 2015 the logo and the signage are everywhere, including on a new U.S. postage stamp.

Meet the young art director who has given the Special Olympics its stunning visual presence.

This one was a treat,” says Zach Moranville.

“By redefining the word ‘special,’ the true story behind every Special Olympics event lives. Not only did I have the opportunity to meet amazing individuals, I have had the chance to touch the lives of others through creativity and visual communication.”

To talk with Zach Moranville is to talk with a man who loves his work. And despite his young age (De La Salle class of 2007, Art Center College of Design in Pasadena class of 2012), Zach has a wealth of professional experience. He lives and works in Los Angeles, and has been an Art Director for four years now at major advertising agencies and public relations firms, first at Davis Elen Advertising, where the Special Olympics 2015 work was done, and currently at Golin.

He has had the opportunity to work for huge and well-established clients (Toyota, Nintendo, Nestle, Cisco), and has also created marketing from the ground up for new businesses (such as Reviv3 Procare hair products). His personal website (www.zachmoranville.com) is the place to see some of Zach’s work and to get to know him better. The Special Olympics section of his portfolio is particularly interesting, and the various slides provide a bit of education for the layman into how a design is created, controlled, and applied.

Zach can also be seen discussing the Special Olympics project in a video produced by Davis Elen (“The Story Behind the Special Olympics World Games Logo”: it’s viewable on YouTube): “All the cross-sections and the juxtapositions, all the mechanics of the mark in itself,” says Zach, studying the striking logo. “It looks organized, but it also contains chaos, and I think that is what makes it interesting.”

When Zach graduated from De La Salle in 2007, he thought he was on a different career path. “I went to Arizona State University, and I was a prelaw major. I thought I saw law school in my future.” But talent, aptitude, and enjoyment soon called him in a different direction—which should probably not have been a surprise to him. You might even say that in the Moranville home there is something

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like a gravitational pull toward artistic creativity and visual communication.

Zach’s father David is an illustrator, his brother Jacob is a designer, and his sister is also an illustrator.

“I left Arizona State after a year and came back home,” says Zach, “and went to Diablo Valley College to do my general requirements, and then went to Pasadena, to the Art Center College of Design, where I specialized in graphic design.” An interesting alumni note: Zach’s father is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design, and his sister is currently a student there. Brother Jacob, for the record, got his professional training at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.

With this array of talents and skills, is a Moranville family advertising firm planned for the future? Zach laughs, “No plans for that exist, but we do complement each other well and share the same interests. I think we do help each other to do better work.”

And De La Salle High School can take pride in its alumnus’s contribution to conveying to the nation, in striking visual form, the message of the Special Olympics, which is “dedicated to promoting respect, inclusion, and acceptance of people with intellectual disabilities.”

campus news

“Let me win.

But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.”

- the Special Olympics Athlete Oath.”

The 2015 Special Olympics World Games are in Los Angeles from July 25 to August 2, with more than 7,000 athletes from 177 countries competing in 25 sports. The first international Special Olympics Games were held in 1968 in Chicago, with 1,000 athletes from the United States and Canada competing in track-and-field and swimming. Today, nearly five million athletes in more than 170 countries take part in Special Olympics. Every year there are more than 81,000 games and competitions, organized with the assistance of more than 1.3 million coaches and volunteer supporters.

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STREAM

Finish Line

TO THE

On Sunday, August 23, 2015, the De La Salle High School community gathered to dedicate and celebrate its new facility, the STREAM Innovation Center (a center for Science, Technology, Robotics, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). The Diocese of Oakland’s Bishop Michael C. Barber, S.J., presided over the dedication of the new building.

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ith the STREAM Innovation Center now complete, this stunning new learning environment will enhance the educational experience for our students now, and position De La Salle for academic excellence well into the future.

For the first time in our school’s history, we have the necessary and right kinds of spaces to fully support our current science programs in scope and sequence. Our foundational 9th grade course, Core Principles, now has its own full laboratory space. In fact, every course has a dedicated laboratory. Gone are the days when we had to use a chemistry lab for a physics class!

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Meeting Next Generation Science Standards But the STREAM Innovation Center is not just about having a better place for our current programs. A school cannot develop a science program in the 21st century without reference to Next Generation Science Standards. Educators often refer to these as “NextGen.” What is new about these? Students who become competent in these cutting edge standards must be able to demonstrate their understanding of core scientific principles through their abilities to use the practices of science and engineering. This is about “hands-on” applications of science to real world situations. We are no longer satisfied with a student telling us what they know; we now expect students to show us what they can do!

This new approach demanded by “NextGen” means that students must develop their investigative skills in the natural world, practice scientific inquiry, and solve meaningful problems. Students will embrace a process that begins with wonder, continues through pondering and hypothetical thinking, and culminates in design and application as responses to the need for innovative solutions to scientific questions that touch the life and physical sciences, as well as those related to engineering.

Providing De La Salle with Growth Opportunity With the rapid changes now at the heart of science and technology, the STREAM Innovation Center now gives our faculty and students room to grow our elective offerings so that our programs embrace and reflect the creative and dynamic nature of science education that will become even more evident in the years to come. This is particularly relevant to expansions in the areas of robotics and engineering that are already changing the way the human community thinks about habitat, work, and sustainability.

Complete But Not Done While construction is complete for the STREAM Innovation Center, we are by all means not “done”. Construction for the STREAM Innovation Center was delivered on time and on budget at $20,500,000. To date, we have raised nearly $16 million of this cost. Our goal is to complete our fundraising efforts by December 31, 2015, so that we may conclude Phase 2 of our 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign and move onto Phase 3, the Athletic Performance Center. But we cannot do this without your help.

We invite you to invest through the resources God has given you – your energy, your prayers, and your financial support – in this work to which God has called us to. We thank our initial investors who have helped set the course for our success and invite all others to join us on this remarkable journey.

Help us STREAM to the finish line by investing in our future today! What has this school meant to you? As we begin our 50th year as a school, your personal support along with the support of our entire community is a testament of how we can ensure the success of the of the school for generations of Spartans to come.

Participate and Leave a Legacy at De La Salle

Celebrate your lifelong connection to De La Salle or honor a special family member by leaving a lasting legacy through one of our many naming opportunities for the STREAM Innovation Center. We are pleased to accept campaign pledges over three to five years.

Named Family Fund Gift Amount: $50,000

Donors who pledge $50,000 or more may choose to establish a Named Family Fund.

Named Family Funds provide you with the ability to support a student in need each school year based upon your interests. The school with in turn provide you with a wonderful opportunity to personally connect with a current student benefitting from your donation.

Lab Station Gift Amount: $25,000

Donors who pledge $25,000 or more can choose to have a plaque placed on an available Lab Station.

Wall Seats Gift Amount: $10,000

Donors who pledge $10,000 or more can choose to have a plaque placed on a wall seat at the new STREAM Innovation Center.

Brick-by-Brick Program Gift Amounts: $5,000 (12x12 brick), $3,000 (8x8 brick), or $1,000 (4x8 brick) Donors to the brick program will receive an inscribed brick in the walkway connecting the STREAM Innovation Center and the existing 300 wing. Bricks will have the ability to be personalized with a name and class year or with your own personal message. Consider remembering a friend or loved one with a personalized brick.

Naming Opportunities are limited, so make your gift today!

Fill out the enclosed pledge envelope or contact Karla Wiese in the Advancement Office at (925) 288-8195 or email wiesek@dlshs.org for further details.

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2014 - 2015 PARENT HONOR ROLL OF DONORS (July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015) Thank you, parents, for your generous gifts to the Annual Fund. The Annual Fund Benefits all students by supporting student programs, faculty development, financial aid, and much more. It is the “every year” gift that we ask of our entire community.

Parent response continues to increase, and we thank you for working with us towards our goal of one hundred percent participation.

Senior Parents Class of 2015 61.15% Mr. and Mrs. David F. Abele Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Abenoja Mr. and Mrs. Harry Anicama Mr. and Mrs. William J. Anzoategui Dr. Ramsey Araj and Dr. Susan Dugoni Mr. and Mrs. Jaime Arana Mr. and Mrs. Othon Benavente Mr. and Mrs. Michael Benz Mr. and Mrs. Todd L. Bequette Mr. James D. Boland Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Bornholtz Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Buckley Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Cahal Mr. and Mrs. Gianfranco Campa Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Cano Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. Carmichael Mr. and Mrs. W. Mark Carpenter Dr. and Mrs. Morris E. Cheeks Mr. Myles A. Cheshier and Ms. Rita G. Moscuzza Mr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Clancey Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Costello Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Crossen Mr. Jose R. Cumagun Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Daul Ms. Lori Daul Mr. and Mrs. George J. Del Monte Mr. and Mrs. John A. DeMartini Mr. and Dr. Mark A. DeVincenzi Mr. and Mrs. Ruben D. Diaz Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Donachie Mr. and Mrs. Marc D. Douville Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dron Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Mark G. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Engelhart '83 Mr. and Mrs. Enrique Eustaquio Mr. Frank A. Ficken and Mrs. Mary K. Adam Mr. and Mrs. Blaine R. Frost Mr. Dirk Fulton and Ms. Becky Kukkola Mr. and Mrs. Fabrizio Galli

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Parent Participation Over the Years

Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Giosso Mr. Carl B. Godkin Mr. Ruddy Gomez and Mrs. Veronica Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Dan Gomez Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Guelld '81 Mr. and Mrs. David Hanan Mr. Robert P. Hanel and Ms. Anita P. Gursahani Mr. Jonathan R. Hardy Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Hare '83 Mr. and Mrs. Hal T. Harmon Mr. and Mrs. Grover Heiskell Mr. and Mrs. Sean Hogan Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Hooker Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Hooper Mr. and Mrs. Bill Houghton Mr. and Mrs. Valentin Huerta Mr. and Mrs. Lon Huffman Mr. and Mrs. Grant M. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Inzerillo, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Janettas Mr. and Mrs. Dave Johnson Mr. and Mrs. David Jones Mr. and Mrs. Dana J. Kafka Mr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Kauffman

Dr. and Mrs. Charles C. King Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Kline Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Lakers Mr. and Mrs. Richard Landry Mr. and Mrs. Sean Larkin Mr. and Mrs. Gregory M. Leiter Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lissarrague Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Lofe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Loftus Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lonestar Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Loyd Mr. C. P. Machado Ms. Jennifer J. Machado Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Markey Dr. Andrew Marshall and Dr. Lynne Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Louay Masarweh Mr. Barry L. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Greg L. McAdoo Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. McAdoo Mrs. Cathy A. McSweeney Mr. and Mrs. Marc K. Mitchell Mr. Michael J. Monaldo and Ms. Valerie A. Nagel Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Morley

advancement Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Luay Nabboud Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Narcisse Mr. and Mrs. John T. Nejedly Mr. and Mrs. Huy Q. Nguyen Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ogburn Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Olinger Dr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ottati, Jr. '88 Mr. and Mrs. Pacifico Palacay Mrs. Margaret M. Pallack Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Pauline '80 Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Paulson Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pelster '87 Mr. and Mrs. Ronaldo S. Perez Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Perko Mr. and Mrs. Mark Perlite Mr. and Mrs. James P. Peters Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Preston Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Querubin Mr. and Mrs. John A. Quinn Mrs. Donna L. Ramirez Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Reedy Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Reiland, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Reuling Mr. and Mrs. William L. Ribera Mr. and Mrs. James P. Riso Ms. Lisa M. Roa Mr. and Mrs. Vince Romeo Mr. and Mrs. David C. Rostratter Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Rueckert Mr. and Mrs. Dan Salhus Mr. and Mrs. John A. Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. Scott A. Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Sandri Mr. and Mrs. Kent K. Sasaki Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Savio Ms. Cristin A. Schatz Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Schneider '83 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Schoenthaler '83 Mr. and Mrs. Edward M. Schumann Ms. Dorothy M. Scocci Mr. and Mrs. Roger Short Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Sitzmann Mr. and Mrs. Sergey Smirnov Mr. and Mrs. Allen F. Smoot IV Mr. and Mrs. Jim Songey Mr. and Mrs. Steve W. Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Sanjiv Suri Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Talmadge Mr. Simon J. Taylor and Mrs. Bonnie S. Burnett-Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Chris O. Theodorakis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Tittel Mr. and Mrs. Phillip L. Tripp Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. VanderKlugt '87 Dr. Michael Varon and Dr. Cara Varon Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Villarama Mr. and Mrs. Jeff W. Vornhagen Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Wanket '79 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Wardy Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Waterson Mrs. April Whitlow Mr. Timothy L. Whitlow '84 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Willard Mr. and Mrs. Marc Woodyard

Dr. and Mrs. Yongmin Zhu Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ziolkowski

Junior Parents Class of 2016

57.47%

Mr. and Mrs. Virgilio A. Abesamis Mr. Keith Adabie and Mrs. Judy Adabie Mr. and Mrs. Jason M. Allen Mr. Brian W. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Craig Ayers Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Balestreri Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo E. Barrientos Mr. and Mrs. Prak Bebarta Mr. and Mrs. David Behiel Mr. and Mrs. David M. Birka-White Mr. Patrick J. Blake Ms. Diane P. Blake Mr. James D. Boland Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Brasiel '82 Mrs. Julie D. Bryce Mr. and Mrs. Eric Buchanan Mr. and Mrs. Francis Byrne Mr. Allain D. Capinpin and Ms. Arlyn Navarro-Capinpin Mr. and Mrs. Lorne F. Chambers Ms. Victoria J. Cinco Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Cole Dr. Albert Cu and Ms. Yolanda Mendoza-Cu Mr. and Mrs. William Cygan Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. Datte Mr. Robert C. De Mercurio and Ms. Nancy L. Flaherty Dr. and Mrs. David M. Dobin Mr. and Mrs. Roger G. Douglas Mr. Jeffrey E. Dozier Mr. and Mrs. John Dzenitis Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Eitelgeorge Mr. and Mrs. Steven N. Fairfield Mr. and Mrs. Linus J. Farias Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Fogarty Mr. and Mrs. Baird D. Fogel Mr. and Mrs. William F. Forester Mr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Foust Mr. Christopher Frumenti '82 Mrs. Abigail Galan Mr. and Mrs. Steve R. Giambalvo Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Gray Mr. and Mrs. James M. Greaney, Jr. Mr. Dwayne F. Guerrero and Mrs. Josette R. Cruz Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Guistolise Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Hardiman Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hassett Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hays Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Henderson '83 Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Hinckley '84 Mr. and Mrs. Scott K. Hirsch '82 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Hourigan Mr. and Mrs. William J. Huberty Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Hughes Mr. Fredrick G. Hunziker Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Jones Mr. and Mrs. William F. Jones Ms. Jean C. Karavidas

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew P. Karleskind Dr. and Mrs. Jerry F. Katz Ms. Janice Kelso Mr. and Mrs. William Kemper Mr. and Mrs. Timothy G. Koelzer Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Kolling Mr. and Mrs. William S. Lappin Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. Lencioni Mr. and Mrs. Lester Lesavoy Mr. and Mrs. David Leyman Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lopez Mr. and Mrs. Nick Macarchuk III Mr. and Mrs. Brian G. Mague Mr. and Mrs. Chris Maloney Mr. Gene Mangini Mr. and Mrs. Oliver D. Mapua Mr. and Mrs. John McCarthy Mr. and Mrs. David T. McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Mercier Ms. Paula Mercurio Mrs. Hanne B. Merritt Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Militar Mr. and Mrs. George Mimms II Mrs. and Mr. Desiree K. Monsarrat-Roy Mr. and Mrs. Veniero A. Monti Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Moody Mr. and Mrs. John Nai Mr. and Mrs. Gerald E. Neufeld Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Neves Mr. and Mrs. Miles Nikaido Mr. Robert D. Nyberg III '90 Ms. Deanna L. Nyberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Nye Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. Oatley Ms. Czon S. Oliveros Mr. and Mrs. Jordan D. Olivier Mr. and Mrs. Martin H. Olson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. O'Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Michael Oxman Mr. and Mrs. John M. Pacelli Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Pauline '88 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Raines Mr. and Mrs. James A. Redmond Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Ridgway Dr. Christine M. Riley Ms. Gina Rodgers Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Romano '83 Mr. and Mrs. David Romero Dr. and Mrs. Rennie S. Roque Mr. and Mrs. James P. Rowley Mr. Emilio Salas and Mrs. Rosa E. Barajas Mr. and Mrs. Hassan Samimi Mr. Joseph Scherman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Schlagel Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Schwarz Mr. and Mrs. Michael Scott Ms. Mahasti Sepidazin Mr. and Mrs. Ricky E. Serrano Mr. Kevin Shanks Mrs. Emily Shanks Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Shess Mr. and Mrs. John J. Simonelli Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Renton C. Squires FALL 2015 UNION

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advancement Mr. and Mrs. Gregory H. Starkman Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Stegner Mr. and Mrs. Dominic J. Stull Mr. Kevin M. Sullivan and Mrs. Tamara Thompson Mr. and Mrs. John Thuma Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Tomkovicz Mr. Christopher H. Trinkus Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Y. True Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Tyser Dr. and Dr. Bernabe F. Urbano Ms. Helena P. Valentine Ms. Sandra J. Vella-Andrade Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Vernon II '85 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Vest '83 Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Vranesh '85 Mr. and Mrs. David Waite Mr. and Mrs. James G. Wardy Mr. and Mrs. David W. Warner Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Webb Mr. and Mrs. Clinton E. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence C. Wong Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Zocchi '74 Ms. Teresa C. Zocchi Mr. Michael R. Zumbo and Ms. Bonnie K. Toland-Zumbo

Sophomore Parents Class of 2017 66.21%

Anonymous (2) Mr. and Mrs. Mark C. Abbas Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Abenoja Mr. Jerry R. Affolter Mr. and Mrs. Jack V. Aiello Mr. and Mrs. Dean M. Alms Mr. and Mrs. John Arnaudon Mr. and Mrs. Craig Ayers Mr. Florent Baillot and Dr. Nadine Kindy Mr. and Mrs. Jorge A. Barajas Mr. David W. Bartels Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Bayham Mr. David E. Behring Mrs. Lisa A. Behring Mr. and Mrs. Frank Benavidez Mr. and Mrs. Edgar R. Berdiago Dr. and Mrs. Craig S. Bindi Mr. and Mrs. Jim R. Blair Mr. and Mrs. James Blair Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Bornholtz Dr. and Mrs. Steve L. Boss Mr. and Mrs. Margarito Briseno Mr. and Mrs. Raycho Buhlev Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Burke Mr. and Mrs. Julius Campos Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Cannon Mr. and Mrs. Ralph J. Caputo Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Carano Ms. Marcela Cardenas Mr. and Mrs. Enrique F. Carranza Mr. Robert J. Corning and Ms. Mary F. Chapman Corning Mr. and Mrs. Chester Chappell Mr. Adam Charlson

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Dr. Steve Cheng and Dr. Nhu Pham Mr. and Mrs. Pravesh Chopra Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Clay '92 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher W. Cole Mr. and Mrs. David J. Colello Mr. and Mrs. Aldred Colquitt Mr. and Mrs. Jorge A. Cordova Mr. Alan Covaia and Ms. Deborah Collins Mr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Covington Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Craig Mr. and Mrs. Garth J. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Crow Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Cruz Mr. and Mrs. Owen Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. Len Curran Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Curran Mr. Ronald Dalton and Mrs. Athena Costis Mr. and Mrs. George J. Del Monte Ms. Laurine M. Domenici Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Donachie Mr. and Mrs. Marc D. Douville Mr. and Mrs. Randy Drake Mr. and Mrs. George C. Driscoll '76 Mr. and Mrs. Craig A. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Juan A. Espinoza Mr. and Mrs. Ubaldo Ferreira Mr. and Mrs. Ubaldo Ferreira Dr. David P. Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Foster Mr. and Mrs. Joel G. Francisco Mr. and Mrs. Lee Friedman Ms. Joanne E. Galvin Mr. and Mrs. Gary T. Garcia Mr. and Mrs. Jaime Garza Mr. and Mrs. George I. Ghantous Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Giosso Mr. James Goodshaw Mr. and Mrs. Mark E. Gotvald Mrs. Elizabeth H. Grywczynski Trujillo Mr. Elias Haddad and Ms. Janice Nugent Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Hall Mr. and Mrs. James D. Harbison Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Hardwick Mr. and Mrs. Hal T. Harmon Mr. and Mrs. Mathew K. Hattich Mr. and Mrs. William B. Haughey Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Headley Mr. and Mrs. Grover Heiskell Mr. and Mrs. Wayne E. Howard Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Huguet Dr. and Mrs. Alan K. Iannaccone Mr. and Mrs. Adrian M. Ivanov Mr. and Mrs. James M. Jacoby Mr. and Mrs. Jon Jacques Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Janettas Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson '89 Mr. Michael S. Jordan and Ms. Linda A. LaSorsa Mr. and Mrs. Dana J. Kafka Mr. and Mrs. Jason Kagel Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Kalcic Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Kerns

Mr. and Mrs. David J. Klapperich '87 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Klapperich Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Knoedler '84 Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Knoll Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Lauer Mr. and Mrs. William C. Levins Ms. Margarita Lezcano Dr. and Mrs. David A. Lilienstein Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Loker Mr. and Mrs. David Lonestar Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lonestar Mr. Derwin K. Longmire Ms. Amy R. Madrid Mr. and Mrs. Oliver D. Mapua Ms. Linda Marsac Haddad Mr. and Mrs. Todd Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. McCourt Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Menefee Mr. and Mrs. Brian Merrion Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Mijares Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Julio R. Miranda Mr. and Mrs. Todd Molyneux Mr. and Mrs. Victor Montez Mr. and Mrs. David W. Morgan Mr. Peter Neels Mr. and Mrs. Vernon J. C. Nicolas Mr. J. P. Nixon and Ms. Gina Cattalini Mr. and Ms. Brent K. Nomura Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O'Dea Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. O'Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. O'Hare Mr. and Mrs. Ossai Opene Mr. and Mrs. John P. O'Reilly Mr. and Mrs. Humberto Ornelas Mr. and Mrs. William M. Orr Dr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ottati, Jr. '88 Mr. and Mrs. Luis Padilla Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Peters Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Petersen Mr. and Ms. Ralph Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Leo Pham Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Pickett Ms. Paulette A. Pierce Mr. and Ms. Mike Pitek Mr. and Mrs. John A. Quinn Mr. and Mrs. Robert N. Ragusano Mr. and Mrs. Ed Randle Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Ridgway Mr. and Mrs. Stan Rivera Mr. and Mrs. Nelson M. Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. William S. Rorke Mrs. Michelle G. Roth Woerner Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rowen Mr. Paul Santiago and Mrs. Jennifer Buchell Mr. and Mrs. Sid Savarani Ms. Cristin A. Schatz Mr. Todd H. Schoenfeld Mrs. Carla M. Seeno Mr. and Mrs. Mario E. Selva Mr. and Mrs. Richard Shahab

advancement Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Sheets Mrs. Allicia Sinclair Mr. and Mrs. Todd Sintic Mr. and Mrs. James Sortino Mr. and Mrs. Erik O. Sotomayor Dr. Charlene B. Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Chris P. Stauber Mr. and Mrs. Randall B. Stockwell Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stone Mr. and Mrs. William A. Storey Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Sypniewski Mr. Simon J. Taylor and Mrs. Bonnie S. Burnett-Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. Tiangsing Mr. and Mrs. Tanner G. Tingey Mr. Christopher H. Trinkus Mr. and Mrs. Markus Llebhard Mr. and Mrs. Kevin L. Vornhagen Mr. and Mrs. Gary M. Vrionis Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Waite Mr. and Mrs. Donald Wallunas Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Weston Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wiley Mr. and Mrs. Kyle H. Willet Mr. and Mrs. Alborz A. Wozniak Ms. Kimberly M. Wright Dr. and Mrs. Chris Wright Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ziolkowski and Ms. Bonnie K. Toland-Zumbo

Freshmen Parents Class of 2018 68.15%

Anonymous (1) Mr. and Mrs. Edilberto O. Africa Mrs. Claudia M. Alfaro Mr. and Mrs. Craig S. Allan Mr. and Mrs. James F. Anton Mr. and Mrs. William J. Anzoategui Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Armanino Mr. and Mrs. Ernesto A. Avila Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Avina Mr. and Mrs. Andy Baldocchi Mr. and Mrs. Jon M. Balousek Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Bassi '80 Mr. and Mrs. Sol A. Bechtold Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Beyer Mr. and Mrs. William S. Blackard Mr. and Mrs. Donald Boyce Ms. Marianne C. Brdar Mr. and Mrs. Rich Brightman Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Brophy Mr. and Mrs. David J. Bruzzone Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Buckley Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Romeo T. Cabe Mr. and Mrs. Timothy A. Cahal Mr. and Mrs. Gianfranco Campa Mr. and Mrs. John Cate Mrs. Karen L. Cevallos Mr. and Mrs. Peter Charbonneau Mr. and Mrs. Jayme A. Chausse Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Christensen Mr. Jerwin C. Chua and Mrs. Rochelle Abrantes

Mr. and Mrs. Eric R. Cline Mr. and Mrs. Terrence J. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Christian Colline Mr. and Mrs. Steve J. Corio Mr. and Mrs. Roberto C. Cortez Mr. and Mrs. Craig Cedergren Mr. and Mrs. Joselito Cruz Mr. and Mrs. Rich Cunningham Mr. and Mrs. Patrick F. Curran Mr. and Mrs. Alberto A. De Almeida, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore DeBonis Mr. and Mrs. Peter Deitchman Mr. Jeff Depolo Mrs. Michele Depolo Mr. and Mrs. Keith Devine Mrs. Donna M. Diaz and Mr. Michael T. Cross Mr. and Mrs. Viet Dinh Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Doke Mr. and Mrs. George D'Olivo Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Domanski Mrs. Michele Easley-Tammaro Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Eggert Mr. and Mrs. Paul Elder Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Falco '83 Dr. David P. Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Fix Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Flanagan Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Flannigan Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Florence Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Freeman '86 Mr. and Mrs. Mitch D. Freitas Mr. and Mrs. Dell Frias Mr. and Mrs. Christopher O. Fry '85 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Gallagher Dr. and Mrs. Steve Galvan Mr. and Mrs. Matt Gee Mr. and Mrs. Eric Ghisletta '86 Mr. Jose T. Gonzalez and Mrs. Rosalina Cid Mr. and Mrs. David R. Gray Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Guelld '81 Mr. and Mrs. Darren Gutierres Mr. Darren C. Hall and Mrs. Laura E. Wucher Mr. and Mrs. John K. Hanecak '80 Mr. Mo Hannaoui and Mrs. Ghenwa S. Serhan Mr. and Mrs. David Happel Mr. Omar Harris Mr. and Mrs. Dennis G. Haskins Mr. and Mrs. Daren R. Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Torbjorn L. Henningsson Ms. Stefanie B. Herin Mr. and Mrs. Samuel L. Hooker Dr. and Mrs. Brian D. Hopkins Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Hourigan Mr. and Mrs. James T. Howell Mr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Hunt Mr. and Mrs. James D. Jansen Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Jaynes Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kauppinen Mr. and Mrs. John P. Keane

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Kearney '90 Mr. Majd Khleif and Mrs. Nadeen Tarazi Mr. and Mrs. Jon King Mr. and Mrs. Peter Koenig Mr. and Mrs. Danny Labrador Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. LeCoque Mr. and Mrs. Martin O. Lewald Mr. and Mrs. Alfredo Mabanag, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Maestro Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Malone Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Mann Mr. and Mrs. Timothy P. Marchi Mr. Leonard S. Marinello Mr. and Mrs. Marc W. Mast Mr. and Mrs. Greg L. McAdoo Mrs. Elizabeth R. McCort Mr. and Mrs. Andrew H. McGrath Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Mercier Mr. Charles A. Miller Ms. Sue Miller Mr. and Mrs. George Mimms II Mr. and Mrs. David J. Mitchell Mr. and Ms. Douglas E. Moberg Mr. and Mrs. Sean T. Mockler Mr. and Ms. Jack L. Morris Mr. and Mrs. James P. Morrisroe Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Moynihan Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Nevares '86 Mr. and Mrs. Bruce L. O'Brien Mr. and Mrs. Shawn P. O'Connell Mr. and Ms. Kevin O'Donnell Mr. and Mrs. David W. Ogburn Mr. and Mrs. Edward Oncena Mr. and Mrs. JB G. Orecchia Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. O'Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Gareth L. Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Andy Peirona Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Person Mr. and Mrs. John W. Peterson Mr. John R. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Jay S. Pogacar Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Powers Mr. and Mrs. Steve A. Pratt Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Querubin Mr. and Mrs. Hugo P. Ramirez Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Reed Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Regan, Sr. '73 Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Reigelman Mr. and Mrs. John M. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. James P. Riso Mrs. Jennifer Romero-Anderson and Mr. Joseph W. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. David A. Rood Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Ross '82 Mr. Lawrence J. Ross Mrs. Michelle G. Roth Woerner Ms. Sheryl L. Rowold Mr. and Mrs. John S. Rubenfeld Mr. and Mrs. Kevin J. Ruggio Mr. Robin Saber and Mrs. Mahta Khalatbari Mr. and Mrs. Robert Salmon Mr. and Mrs. Johnny J. C. Sanchez Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Schmidtbauer FALL 2015 UNION

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advancement Mr. and Mrs. Todd O. Severson Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Sheffield Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Skillman, Jr. '79 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Slate '89 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Smalling Mr. and Mrs. Cabot M. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Luis A. Tacderas Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Tammen Mr. and Mrs. Ron M. Thomas Mr. and Mrs. John Thuma Mr. and Mrs. Shawn Toliver Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. Tomkovicz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Trapp Mr. and Mrs. Todd Tuescher Mr. and Mrs. Paul Van Loon Mr. and Mrs. Alvaro J. Vazquez Mr. and Mrs. Robert Villano Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Villarama Mr. and Mrs. Kurt von Savoye

Mr. Danny V. Vu and Ms. Catrina N. Dang Mr. and Mrs. Timothy T. Walsh Mr. Robert A. Walsh and Dr. Jill M. Walsh Mr. John F. Warnock and Ms. Yvette Rodriguez Warnock Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wellington Mr. and Mrs. Dilantha Wijesuriya Mr. and Mrs. James A. Wiley Mr. Michael S. Woerner Mr. and Mrs. Alan Wong Mr. and Mrs. Jose E. Wright Mr. and Mrs. J. David Zaitz Mr. Dmitro Zelenskyy and Mrs. Nataliya Zelenska

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De La Salle’s Honor Roll of Donors recognizes parent gifts made to The De La Salle Annual Fund from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. We have made every effort to provide a complete and accurate listing. However, errors may occur, and we hope you will accept our sincere apologies. Please contact Director of Development Karla Wiese, in the Advancement Office at (925) 288-8195 or wiesek@dlshs.org, and we will correct our records.

Save the Date!

FETE AUCTION April 30, 2016

Come to the party of the year at Diablo Country Club!

Socialize, dine, dance and bid in support of the young men of De La Salle.

Sponsorships & Tickets Contact: Lauren Seeno at (925) 288-8184 seenol@dlshs.org

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alumni news

Timeframe FY 2007-08 FY 2008-09 FY 2009-10 FY 2010-11 FY 2011-12 FY 2012-13 FY 2013-14 FY 2014-15

Alumni Annual Fund Participation Growth 2008 to 2015

Solicitable Alumni* 5,180 5,449 5,681 5,951 6,132 6,280 6,429 6,615

# Alumni Donors 167 269 288 408 463 472 503 531

% Change from Previous Year N/A 61.08% 7.06% 41.67% 13.48% 0.019% 6.36% 5.57%

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The De La Salle Alumni Association continues to build on our efforts to educate alumni on the various funding initiatives of the school. Many are still surprised to learn that tuition does not cover the full cost to educate a student throughout the school year and our endowment is still in its infancy (in comparison to other schools) – but continues to grow…

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* Solicitable Alumni is defined as alumni with valid contact information and not in college.

We cannot thank our alumni enough for staying involved at De La Salle through their support of the Annual Fund. Our hope is that you will continue to help us build on our progress and encourage your Spartan brothers to join in the effort for the 2015-16 school year!

Anonymous (6) Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Bihler '69 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Gitzen '69 Father LaSalle Hallissey, O.P. '69 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Moffitt '69 Mr. Steven A. Mury '69 Mr. Gary L. Weberling '69 Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Brocca '70 Mr. and Mrs. Jerome F. Klenow '70 Mr. and Mrs. James M. McCaughey '70 Mr. Robert J. Montgomery '70 Mr. and Mrs. David Benedetti '71 Mr. and Mrs. Theodore T. Boet '71 Mr. and Mrs. John DeVincenzi, Jr. '71 Mr. and Mrs. Sean M. Hogan '71 Brother Lawrence P. Haley, FSC '72 Mr. and Mrs. Darrell A. Moody '72 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Rissetto '72 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Keenan '73 Mr. Rick E. Koch '73 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Metzger '73 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Regan, Sr. '73 Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Shoemaker '73 Mr. and Mrs. Dwight E. Sory '73 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Stokes '73 Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Wagner '73 Dr. and Mrs. Tikoes A. Blankenberg '74 Mr. Edmund P. Guelld '74 Mr. Joseph B. Kearney '74 Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Kimball '74 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Lucas '74 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Wolking '74 Mr. and Mrs. Louis S. Zocchi '74 Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. Balog Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) '75 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond P. Donahue '75 Mr. and Mrs. Terence D. Doyle '75 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Frainier '75 Mr. Herbert K. North '75 Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Price '75

Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Pursley '75 Mr. and Mrs. Eduardo Quintero '75 Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Sullivan, Ph.D. '75 Mr. David J. Van Hoomissen '75 Mr. Michael Bihn '76 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Bruni '76 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick S. Cahill '76 Mr. Michael J. Cashman '76 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Cusack '76 Mr. and Mrs. George C. Driscoll '76 Dr. and Mrs. John D. Fichtenkort '76 Mr. Christopher A. Hood-Rosales '76 Mr. and Mrs. Alfred B. Johnson '76 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. McKinnon '76 Mr. Stanley R. Mertes II '76 Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Mineart '76 Mr. and Mrs. James G. Olwell '76 Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shoemaker '76 Mr. Matthew W. Sullivan '76 Mr. Michael F. Sweeney '76 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Baldacci '77 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Bredbenner '77 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Dowd III '77 Mr. Karl F. Kreft '77 Mr. Gregory J. McKinnon '77 Mr. J. K. Young '77 Mr. and Mrs. David H. Anderssen '78 Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Cavallero '78 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Coghlan '78 Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. DeMarco '78 Mr. and Mrs. John D. DeMatteo CPA '78 Mr. Philip D. Donahue '78 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin E. Flaherty '78 Mr. Michael L. Lynch '78 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Piombo '78 Reverend John C. Prochaska '78 Mr. Brian M. Serafino '78 Mr. Andrew P. Spyrow '78 Mr. and Mrs. William P. DePaschalis '79 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Eggers, Jr. '79 Mr. Robert L. Ennis '79

Mr. William A. Frainier '79 Mr. Martin P. Mitchell '79 Col. and Mrs. Paul R. Pryor '79 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. Saling '79 Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Steeb '79 Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Vaccaro II '79 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel R. Wanket '79 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Arcidiacono '80 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Arvin '80 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Balog '80 Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Camera '80 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Castello '80 Mr. Mark Christian '80 and Mrs. Pam Hartley Mr. John F. Connell '80 Mr. Robert D. Flaig '80 Mr. and Mrs. John K. Hanecak '80 Brother Jack Henderson, FSC '80 Mr. Robert M. Hopfner '80 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. McNiff '80 Mr. Jesse H. Molinar '80 Mr. Mark M. Mullen '80 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Pauline '80 Cdr. (Ret.) and Mrs. Edward A. Robertson, Jr. '80 Mr. and Mrs. Keith T. Schuler '80 Brother Kevin M. Slate, FSC '80 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Souza '80 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher G. Clarke '81 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Crespi '81 Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. DePaschalis '81 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Ewins '81 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Fitzsimmons, Jr. '81 Mr. Michael J. Grisius '81 Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Guelld '81 Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Hazelwood '81 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Medeiros '81 Mr. Robert H. Palmer '81 Mr. Gregory P. Rosellini '81 Mr. and Mrs. Kelly B. Trevethan '81 FALL 2015 UNION

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alumni news Mr. and Mrs. John E. White '81

Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Baldacci '82 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Brasiel '82 Mr. Paul Chahin '82 and Ms. Leslie Guerrero-Chahin Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Devlin '82 Mr. and Mrs. James H. Francis '82 Mr. Christopher Frumenti '82 Mr. Mike F. Hegeman '82 Mr. and Mrs. Scott K. Hirsch '82 Mr. and Mrs. Mark P. Irving '82 Mr. Timothy J. Kimball '82 Mr. and Mrs. Virginius N. Miller '82 Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Ross '82 Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Ruiz '82 Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Abreu '83 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baldacci '83 Reverend W. S. Chavez '83 Mr. and Mrs. David M. Cuddihy '83 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cumbelich '83 Mr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Di Giovanni '83 Mr. and Mrs. Sean R. Edgar '84 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Engelhart '83 Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Falco '83 Mr. Robert D. Glynn III '83 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Hare '83 Mr. and Mrs. Brian J. Henderson '83 Mr. Michael P. Hooke '83 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher I. Mass '83 Mr. and Mrs. Brian C. Peters '83 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey E. Roderick '83 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Romano '83 Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Schneider '83 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Schoenthaler '83 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Vest '83 Mr. and Mrs. Phillip J. Williamson '83 Mr. Michael R. Costello '84 Mr. and Mrs. Keith A. Domingo '84 Mr. and Mrs. Sean R. Edgar '84 Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Hinckley '84 Mr. and Mrs. Bryan D. Hoadley '84 Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Irving CPA '84 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Jordan '84 Mr. Michael G. Kelley '84 Mr. and Mrs. Peter J. Knoedler '84 Mr. Eric J. Mercer '84 Mr. and Mrs. Vincent J. Palm '84 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. Pels '84 Mr. and Mrs. David S. Roche '84 Dr. Michael Twomey J. Rubino III '84 Mr. Scott W. Stephan '84 Mr. Timothy L. Whitlow '84 Father Matthew J. Blank '85 Dr. and Mrs. Jason R. Clark '85 Mr. and Mrs. Carlos P. DeMelo '85 Mr. and Mrs. Eric D. Droll '85 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher O. Fry '85 Mr. Michael K. Glass '85 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Krochmal, Jr. '85 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew M. Laiolo '85 Mr. and Mrs. David R. Lucas '85 Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. McCabe '85 Mr. and Mrs. Sean T. McCarthy '85 Mr. and Mrs. Eric W. McClaskey '85 Mr. J. S. McPhee '85 Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Panella '85 Mr. Richard A. Schmidt '85 Mr. and Mrs. Alan J. Vernon II '85 Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Vranesh '85 Mr. Christopher Wiggins '85 Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Bianchina, Jr. '86 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick M. Burke '86 Mr. and Mrs. Kent L. Camera '86 Mr. and Mrs. Greg M. Carrillo '86 Mr. Gregg J. Chavaria '86 Mr. Kevin Cristbrook '86

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Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Daniels '86 Mr. William W. Davis, Jr. '86 Mr. Michael Di Fiori '86 and Dr. Jamie Di Fiori Mr. and Mrs. William C. Fortner '86 Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Freeman '86 Mr. Timothy G. Galten '86 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Ghisletta '86 Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Giorgi, Jr. '86 Mr. Timothy E. Grewis '86 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick T. Hannigan '86 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. King CFP '86 Mr. and Mrs. George R. Lotti, Jr. '86 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Malone II '86 Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Nevares '86 Mr. and Mrs. John A. Rollo '86 Lt. and Mrs. Laurence F. Ryan '86 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Savarese '86 Mr. Ronald A. Sherman '86 Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Strauch '86 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Swenson '86 Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Turner '86 Mr. and Mrs. Antonio L. Vernon '86 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Walsh '86 Mr. and Mrs. John L. Whitlow '86 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Francis '87 Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Gibson '87 Mr. James R. Grant '87 Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Kannon '87 Mr. and Mrs. David J. Klapperich '87 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey W. LaCour '87 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Lofy '87 Mr. Greg A. Lucas '87 Mr. and Mrs. Kent M. Mercer '87 Mr. Douglas Paul '87 and Mrs. Heather Noonan Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pelster '87 Mr. Peter M. Pinsoneault '87 Mr. Gregory S. Pron '87 Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Salvemini '87 Mr. John Shoaff '87 and Mrs. Laura Sonjara Mr. and Mrs. Millen L. Simpson III '87 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Speaker '87 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Urizar, Jr. '87 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. VanderKlugt '87 Dr. and Mrs. James A. Brasiel '88 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Forester, Jr. '88 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Hinckley '88 Mr. Michael Joyce '88 and Mrs. Rachel Harris Mr. Matthew Lopas '88 and Mrs. Deanna Bogdan Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Mullane '88 Dr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ottati, Jr. '88 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Pauline '88 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Roberts '88 Mr. Michael R. Testa '88 Mr. Ivan B. Vela '88 Mr. Christopher D. Walton '88 Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Williams '88 Mr. David A. York '88 Mr. and Mrs. Luis F. Zapata '88 Mr. Andy Zyla '88 Mr. Christopher H. Barry '89 Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Brien '89 Mr. and Mrs. Christian N. Curry '89 Mr. and Mrs. Victor M. DeMelo '89 Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Donati III '89 Mr. Scott J. Fortner '89 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Glanville '89 Mr. John Hauser '89 and Ms. Karman Ko Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson '89 Mr. Kenneth G. Jones '89 Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Junge '89 Mr. James F. Keane '89 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Manning '89 Mr. Brian R. Marchiano '89

Mr. and Mrs. Casey C. Rhodes '89 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Shea '89 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Slate '89 Mr. Patrick R. Ball '90 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Freeman '90 Mr. Richard Graham '90 Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Kearney '90 Mr. Robert L. Kroha, Jr. '90 Mr. Robert D. Nyberg III '90 Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Shea '90 Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Southard '90 Mr. Brian Vest '90 and Mrs. Drue Hulmer Mr. Anthony G. Viscia '90 Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Gaber '91 Mr. Jesse J. Glueck '91 Mr. and Mrs. John P. Koller '91 Mr. Brian K. Marchetti '91 Mr. and Mrs. Terence A. O'Prey, Jr. '91 Mr. and Mrs. Nick V. Pelosi '91 Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Selby '91 Mr. Val H. Tompkins DC '91 Mr. Neil P. Van Slambrook '91 Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. Wilson '91 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew B. Clay '92 Mr. and Mrs. Jeff B. Cortez '92 Mr. Michael E. Dawson '92 Mr. Carlos O. DeLeon '92 Mr. Daniel J. Dempsey '92 Mr. Kevin Fryer '92 and Ms. Sasha Scardina Mr. and Mrs. Brendan P. Galloway '92 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew W. McDowell '92 Mr. Christopher M. Morano '92 Dr. and Mrs. John P. Schilling, M.D. '92 Mr. and Mrs. Brian A. Souto '92 Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Wachowicz '92 Mr. Garth N. Adlao '93 Mr. Aras A. Alekna '93 Mr. and Mrs. Marc C. Bacsafra '93 Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan J. Bellusa '93 Mr. David T. Byrne '93 Mr. John P. Connolly '93 Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Curran '93 Mr. Andrew L. Freeman '93 Mr. Daniel W. Gagen '93 Mr. Stephen D. Lilly '93 Mr. David H. Melmed '93 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Molloy '93 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick J. Walsh '93 Mr. Todd M. Barney '94 Mr. James D. Brosnan '94 Mr. and Mrs. Dalton C. Brown '94 Mr. Ronald C. Connolly '94 Mr. and Mrs. Chris P. Del Santo '94 Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Dickson '94 Mr. Thomas W. Dixon '94 Mr. and Mrs. Scott J. Drain '94 Mr. Timothy M. Egan '94 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony D. Frakes '94 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher A. Gaber '94 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Hintz '94 Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin A. Kamp '94 Mr. and Mrs. Cesar D. Kisielewski '94 Mr. Mark Lewicki '94 Mr. and Mrs. Leo C. Lopoz '94 Mr. Christopher T. Mack '94 Mr. Matt Malone '94 Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. Mass '94 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. McCarthy '94 Mr. Chris C. Molinaro '94 Mr. Patrick M. O'Rourke '94 Mr. and Mrs. Michael R. Pelosi '94 Mr. Robert E. Portis, Jr. '94 Mr. Matthew T. Prisegem '94 Mr. Michael J. Prisegem '94 Mr. Eric J. Quinn '94 Mr. Julian A. Roca '94 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd V. Schine III '94

Mr. Stephen R. Sonaty '94 Mr. Mark J. Spinelli '94 Mr. Robert J. Thompson, Jr. '94 Mr. Joseph D. DeFalco '95 Mr. and Mrs. Jaime A. Estrada '95 Mr. Neil R. Gagen '95 Mr. Joseph P. Harney '95 Mr. Drew C. Hodson '95 Mr. Jordan D. Kahn '95 Mr. and Mrs. Adam J. Keen '95 Mr. John A. Koven '95 Mr. Dominic O. Magnani '95 Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin C. Tschann '95 Mr. and Mrs. Anthony R. Washmera '95 Mr. and Mrs. Zachary J. Ellman '96 Mr. and Mrs. Sean T. Farnham '96 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew L. Harrison '96 Mr. D. Gregory G. Hintz '96 Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Irving '96 Mr. Kevin P. Marchetti '96 Mr. Neil R. O'Leary '96 Mr. and Mrs. Dean Ian B. Quiambao '96 Mr. John M. Rhodes '96 Mr. William J. Riley '96 Mr. and Mrs. Roberto P. Santos '96 Mr. and Mrs. Brett J. Anderson '97 Mr. Nolan J. Arieta '97 Mr. and Mrs. Sean P. Bristol '97 Mr. Greg G. Brown-Davis '97 Mr. and Mrs. Jason R. Cale '97 Mr. Jeremy S. Gabe '97 Mr. Daniel J. Kehoe '97 Mr. Robert M. Lucas, M.D. '97 Mr. Patrick D. McKenna '97 Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Meadows '97 Mr. and Mrs. Christopher N. Odne '97 Dr. Alex A. Sanchez '97 Mr. Justin E. Alumbaugh '98 Mr. James W. Beall, Jr. '98 Mr. David M. Brooks '98 Mr. and Mrs. Nathan A. Burkhardt '98 Mr. Bradley W. Busenius '98 Mr. Mark A. Carpenter '98 Mr. Clayton T. Cook '98 Mr. Brian C. Engleton '98 Mr. Colin N. Ensley '98 Mr. Anthony R. Field '98 Mr. and Mrs. Matthew D. Geldermann '98 Mr. Cortland L. Golightly '98 Mr. Michael P. Gonzales '98 Mr. Benjamin H. Halsey '98 Mr. Wesley J. Hodson '98 Mr. and Mrs. Justin T. Keane '98 Mr. Matthew S. King '98 Mr. Michael A. Mariani '98 Mr. Jesse Merl '98 Mr. Jason M. Penarelli '98 Mr. Timmy R. Pizza '98 Mr. and Mrs. Joshua J. Quintero CMT '98 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Rassier, Jr. '98 Mr. Darren J. Salmi, M.D. '98 Mr. Jack T. Schultz '98 Mr. Dominic E. Uchikura '98 Mr. Patrick J. Vesely '98 Mr. Anthony Volkar '98 Mr. Matthew C. Wersel '98 Mr. Richard J. Whelan '98 Mr. Daniel L. Alexander '99 Mr. David L. Blasingame '99 Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Caranci '99 Mr. David S. Criss '99 Mr. and Mrs. Shaylen A. Hansen '99 Mr. Christopher G. Hesse '99 Mr. Aaron C. Humes '99 Mr. Lauro C. Lopoz '99 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd J. Miglio '99 Mr. and Mrs. David W. Murphy '99 Mr. Anthony J. Pappageorge '99 Mr. Rene A. Poblete II '99

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Wheeler '99 Mr. Zac M. Yonekawa '99 Mr. Michael F. Bausch '00 Mr. Colby R. Clegg '00 Mr. Daniel L. DuRee '00 Mr. Andrew K. Gardner '00 Mr. D. M. Greene '00 Mr. William D. Johnson '00 Mr. James B. Kehoe '00 Mr. Aaron J. Kuhle '00 Mr. Christopher L. Rassier '00 Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas E. Andrade '01 Mr. John A. Dominguez '01 Mr. Erick Gonzalez '01 Mr. Jonathan Hardisty '01 and Mrs. Megan Ferri Mr. Joseph T. McKeown '01 Mr. Paul W. Schafer '01 Mr. David P. Smith '01 Mr. William E. Steuber '01 Mr. Chad M. Watson '01 Mr. Brian M. Bacharach '02 Mr. Garrett B. Denniston '02 Mr. Matthew P. Gutierrez '02 Mr. Sean E. Halligan '02 Mr. Sean P. Hanlon '02 Mr. Erik L. Hanson '02 Mr. Thomas P. Hayes '02 Mr. Timothy A. Hodson '02 Mr. John E. Keane '02 Mr. Gregory Kosich '02 and Ms. Angelina Adler Mr. James S. Puccetti '02 Mr. R. Paul R. Rives, Jr. '02 Mr. James R. Roscelli '02 Mr. Walter J. Selby IV '02 Mr. William S. Stringert '02 Mr. Kevin B. Vesely '02 Mr. Rogelio Avalos '03 Mr. Kevin W. Bacharach '03 Mr. Trenton M. F. Barmby '03 Mr. Anthony J. Binswanger '03 Mr. Philip L. Campos '03 Mr. Christopher J. Carey '03 Mr. Romuel-Dave E. Chaves '03 Lt. Gregory M. Contreras '03 Mr. Silvio J. Garaventa III '03 Mr. Thomas B. Johnson '03 Mr. Maurice C. Jones-Drew '03 Mr. Zalan M. Lorincz '03 Mr. Gregory D. MacArthur '03 Mr. Thomas J. Maddock '03 Mr. Richard J. McNell '03 Mr. Brian Joseph L. Orpiano '03 Mr. Chad N. Worth '03 Mr. Ryan V. Burke '04 Mr. Christopher J. Burns '04 Mr. Daniel L. Callahan '04 Mr. Nicholas C. Cipolla '04 Mr. Andrew E. Curto '04 Mr. Oliver Duda '04 Mr. William J. Hayes '04 Mr. John P. Milcovich '04 Mr. Michael A. Pittore '04 Mr. Kevin P. Winters '04 Mr. Louis M. Wolf '04 Mr. Brian R. Barnett '05 Mr. Thomas F. Burk '05 Mr. Andrew M. Camera '05 Mr. Joseph L. Depaoli '05 Mr. Brian F. Dunican '05 Mr. Luke R. Fraschieri '05 Mr. Jordan D. Harwell '05 Mr. Scott W. Hugo '05 Mr. Peter D. Lee '05 Mr. Francesco D. Lo Coco '05 Mr. William J. Milcovich '05 Mr. Ryan V. Minahan '05 Mr. Daniel W. Mires '05 Mr. Christopher R. Sansoe '05

Mr. Thomas S. Smith '05 Mr. Jason A. Toovey '05 Mr. Arie van Gemeren '05 Mr. Dominic J. Villa '05 Mr. Jacob S. Yount '05 Mr. Christopher R. Carroll '06 Mr. Michael V. Cipolla '06 Mr. Lincoln D. Gunn '06 Mr. Robert M. Johnson '06 Mr. Colin S. Niedermeyer '06 Mr. Ethan P. Niedermeyer '06 Mr. Joseph P. Scott '06 Mr. Kevin T. Baldacci '07 Mr. Stephen W. Bennett '07 Mr. Joseph R. Bernardi '07 Mr. Robert M. Depaoli '07 Mr. Brandon J. Harrington '07 Mr. Evan C. Ingwers '07 Mr. Benjamin T. Jansen '07 Mr. Andrew M. Milcovich '07 Mr. Taylor Reid '07 Mr. John J. Scalmanini '07 Mr. Peter S. Sitov '07 Mr. Christopher G. Tech '07 Mr. Michael J. Baldacci '08 Mr. Eric J. Johnson '08 Mr. Brian R. Polidori '08 Mr. Robert A. Van Wyck '08 Mr. John W. Yandell III '08 Mr. Eric J. Angerer '09 Mr. Jackson J. Bouza '09 Mr. Connor J. Farley '09 Mr. Christian K. Flynn '09 Mr. Nicholas A. Jansen '09 Mr. Michael P. Kiper '09 Mr. Mark E. Leong '09 Mr. Daniel P. Murphy '09 Mr. Tyrone M. Plata '09 Mr. Adam C. Tanaka '09 Mr. Blake E. Wayne '09 Mr. Nathaniel L. Appel '10 Mr. Thomas M. Baldacci '10 Mr. Justin A. Egkan '10 Mr. James R. Logan '10 Mr. Alexander S. Taylor '10 Mr. Sergio Flores '12 Mr. Giordano P. Jacuzzi '12 Mr. Matthew P. Baldacci '13 Mr. Hayden A. Pastorini '14 2014 – 2015 Alumni Event Sponsors (July 1, 2014 – June 30, 2015) Mr. Christopher Frumenti '82 Mr. and Mrs. Steven M. Abreu '83 Mr. and Mrs. James F. Baldacci '83 Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Hare '83 Mr. and Mrs. Patrick O. Oswald '83 Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Romano '83 Mr. and Mrs. Sean R. Edgar '84 Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Lezcano '90 Mr. Jason C. Pauline '90 Mr. Anthony G. Viscia '90 Mr. and Mrs. Dalton C. Brown '94 Mr. Daniel L. DuRee '00 •••

De La Salle’s Alumni Honor Roll of Donors recognizes alumni monetary gifts made to the school from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015. We have made every effort to provide a complete and accurate listing. However, errors may occur, and we hope you will accept our sincere apologies. Please contact Karla Wiese, director of development, in the Advancement Office at (925) 288-8195 or wiesek@dlshs.org, and we will correct our records.

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Necessity has been called the mother of invention.

But maybe frustration can be called invention’s father.

n this case the father with the frustration is Gary Bong, a Certified Public Accountant who does the delicate and demanding work of performing financial audits. The clunky and costly software he had to use in his work exasperated him. His sons, Steven Bong (DLS 2005) and Kevin Bong (DLS 2008) thought about how they might help Dad out. One thing led to another, and now the three men have a new product and a new business. The headline for this story might be: Grumpy Dad Sparks Innovation: DLS Alumni Sons Create New Tool for Audits.

“Audit” is not a beautiful word, probably, to most of us.

When we hear it we may think first of the IRS, and of some unwanted, unwelcome scrutinizing of our tax returns. (The IRS will do about a million audits of taxpayers in 2015.)

But most audits are not governmental, and the recipients definitely ask for them. The audits are performed by accounting firms for private clients (large and small, forprofit and non-profit) at the clients’ request, so that these clients can emerge from the process with “audited financial statements” that they can use and publish. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) says this: “The purpose of an audit is to provide financial statement users with an opinion by the auditor on whether the financial statements are presented fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with an applicable financial reporting framework, which enhances the degree of confidence that intended users can place in the financial statements.”

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Steve Bong ’05 and his brother Kevin Bong ’08

Gary Bong puts it more crisply: “An audit is a professional certification that your institution’s financial profile is as you claim it to be.” Only highly trained professionals are qualified to do such work. But Gary found that the digital tools available to professionals were not serving him well. “CPAs provide services in basically three areas: bookkeeping, taxes, and audits. There has been great improvement and innovation in the software used for bookkeeping and for tax preparation – but not for audits.”

Enter sons Steven and Kevin. As Jason Bramwell told their story recently on Accounting Web: “While home for Thanksgiving in 2011, brothers Kevin and Steven Bong had a little fun at their dad’s expense.

As a CPA for the past 35 years, Gary Bong has had plenty of experience performing audits. But according to Kevin Bong, the outdated auditing software his dad was using while working from home often made him very frustrated.

“My brother and I were taking a look at his work and poking a little fun at the software. There was a paintbrush button on the tool, like in Windows 95. So we asked him what the paintbrush does, and he said, ‘I don’t know, but don’t touch it! You might break everything!’”

When Gary told his sons how much the software cost – a six-figure amount – Kevin and Steven, both computer

alumni news programmers at the time, agreed there had to be a better way. ‘We thought that maybe we could build an auditing program,’ Kevin Bong said. ‘How hard could it be?’

It wasn’t easy, but the Bong brothers, along with a team of programmers and CPAs, did build an online auditing solution for accounting professionals called AuditFile, which officially launched [in August 2014].

“Our goal was to give the profession a better tool,” said Kevin Bong, who studied accounting and computer programming at the University of California-Los Angeles and spent some time with Big Four firm Deloitte LLP. “Public accounting is a great profession, and there’s a lot of exciting technology coming out for bookkeeping and tax. We retested it, found financial backers, including a $3 million really wanted to provide an easy-to-use and enjoyable lead investment from a private equity firm. They have kept auditing tool for CPAs, especially the younger ones coming overhead costs low, identified target markets, built a beautiinto the profession.” ful website, and garnered both impressive reviews and a Among the virtues of AuditFile, say its inventors, are that growing list of clients. Is there a sizeable market for it is cloud-based (no files to upload to your computer) and AuditFile? “We think so,” says subscription-based (not a pur“AuditFile is built by CPAs, for CPAs. We know Kevin. “There are about 57,000 chase-and-installation model).

It also boasts real-time dashwhat the job entails, and we know what the CPA firms in the country, boards and progress indicators, arrival of the first truly useful, beautiful audit employing about 1.3 million people.” and streamlined workflows and solution will mean for our users.”

The Sleeter Report’s Peter approvals processes.

Cullen reviewed their creation in glowing terms: “This is a Kyle Russell of Tech Crunch is impressed. He wrote, cloud-based audit, review, and compilation efficiency tool “According to Steven Bong, most CPAs he’s encountered that accounting professionals who prepare financial statebuilt their workflow on top of the Microsoft Office suite, ments may find very useful…. AuditFile is reasonably priced keeping track of accounts in massive spreadsheets and audit when compared to other similar tools. … [For] a professionprogress in Word documents. A typical audit will have hunal product that is sustainable and engenders the trust and dreds of steps of verification, and some don’t have to be confidence of your clients, I recommend that you take a done depending on the results of other steps. But because close look at AuditFile.” they’d have to go back and search through Word documents Accounting Today put AuditFile among its Top New to see those results, huge swaths of time are wasted just figProducts of 2015, and the professional journal CPA Practice uring out what to work on next. Bong saw this inefficiency Advisor named AuditFile a finalist for its coveted Innovation as an opportunity, and in 2011 set out to create a service that Award. "The purpose of the Innovation Award,” said the would put the entire process in a simple web app.” magazine’s editor, “is to acknowledge and honor the technolThe three years between the initial inspiration and the ogy providers who are changing the accounting profession roll-out of the product were not easy. It was Thomas Edison with creative thinking and down-to-earth useful products. who said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine Responding to the needs of the tax and accounting profespercent perspiration.” And the Bong family, in good sionals, these innovators are paving the way for the evoluEdisonian style, committed itself to providing that ninetytion of the profession to a global team of advisors and forenine percent. Steven had graduated from UC Berkeley with casters who can lead their clients to success." a degree in mathematics in 2012, the same year that brother One frustrated dad, two brilliant sons, and a lot of hard Kevin graduated from UCLA, and both had good jobs, work later….. The Bong family business is headed in the Kevin with Deloitte (an accounting firm) and Steven with right direction. Kevin says, “I would like to thank De La Citadel (a hedge fund).

Salle for providing me with a challenging and rewarding To devote themselves to the AuditFile project, the brotheducation that gave me the confidence and perseverance to ers gave up their jobs and moved back to the family home to go out and try something like this!” live while creating the product and developing the business.

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In Memoriam

May they rest in peace…with God forever.

Mary Candida Garaventa January 15, 1924 - June 29, 2015

Beloved Mary Candida Garaventa ("Nonni"), 91, passed and is now singing with the angels in God's loving presence.

A woman of strong heart and courage, Nonni had an unwavering commitment to her family and her Catholic faith.

An Italian mother of five, with 19 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren, Nonni was a role model for her family, always putting family first and teaching her children and grandchildren to stand up with courage for their values and for what is right.

Nonni was supportive of education at elementary school, high school and college levels - including a strong commitment to helping others and giving back to the community. She supported many charities including creating the Silvio and Mary Garaventa Family Financial Aid Endowment Fund at De La Salle benefiting students who demonstrate a passion for faith, scholarship and integrity through leadership in the classroom, co-curricular activities and their community.

Nonni is survived by her five children: Silvio Garaventa, Jr. (Patty), Cookie Garaventa Adler (Nick), Louisa Garaventa Binswanger (Walt), Joseph Garaventa ’77, Linda Garaventa Colvis (Clark) and 19 grandchildren including De La Salle alumni Paul Adler ‘96, David Adler ‘97, Walt Binswanger ‘98, Tony Binswanger ‘03, Sil Garaventa III ’03, Michael Binswanger ‘05, Andrew Garaventa ‘08, Robert Garaventa ‘08, and Steven Garaventa ‘11. (Excerpt from family’s eulogy.)

Rob Arieta father of Nolan '97 and Anthony '00 Arieta Daniel D. Basso '97 Madeline Buchanan mother of Warren R. Buchanan '03 Edwin M. Burger father of David M. Burger '74 Richard Burns father of Dennis K. Burns ’77 and grandfather of Gregory M. Burns ‘12 Adria P. Chizmar mother of Ian A. Chizmar '94 Ronald G. Connolly father of Ronald C. Connolly ‘94 Earline B. Corey grandmother of Don Carter '13 Joyce M. Lauer grandmother of Daniel Costanza '06, Nicholas Constanza '08, Christopher Costanza 11, Brady Lauer '17 Duayne J. Dillon father of Patrick Dillon ’75 (deceased), Michael Dillon ’76, Daniel Dillon ’77 and Dennis Dillon ‘83

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Ann Marie Sweeney grandmother of Thomas M. Eldgridge '88 and Steven L. Eldridge '90 Terrence Enfield father of Tyler J. Enfield '91 Michael R.Feilmoser ffather of Jason M. Feilmoser '00 Herbert Freeman father of Paul C. Freeman '72 and Timothy D. Freeman '72 James Fuller '83 Joe Gambetta grandfather of Tyler B. Gates '10 Philip Hamilton father of Robert P. Hamilton '92 Donald J. Hazelwood father of Scott J. Hazelwood '81 James Lange friend of De La Sallle High School Nelvi Margarite Lailo grandparent of Matthew M. Laiolo '85 and Paul A. Kalcic '17 Angelo Maraccini father of John Maraccini '88

Dorothy McCarthy mother of Kevin '79, Brian '82, Sean '85 and Liam '86 McCarthy Robert Mimiaga father of Thomas Mimiaga '77, Stephen R. Mimiaga '80 Sarah Moosman mother of Paul C. Moosman '81 Patricia O'Donnell grandmother of Ryan P. Donley '17 and Sean F. O'Donnell '17 Robert Dennis Pohl father of Robert Pohl ‘06 Dolores Quinlan grandmother of Dennis J. Quinlan '08 Rose Riso grandmother of Vincent Caputo '10, Stephen Caputo '17, Justin Riso '15 and Brenden Riso '18 Paula Sapper mother of Charles P. Sapper '70 William Tierney father of Sean W. Tierney '97 Lisa Yama friend of De La Salle High School

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The De La Salle Alumni Association serves the entire De La Salle family by deepening alumni engagement in the life of the school. Our gratitude goes to these Alumni who serve the school as members of the DLSAA Board of Directors. They are committed to our Catholic, Lasallian tradition and to ensuring the school’s enduring ability to carry out its educational mission.

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I am very grateful to have been elected President of the De La Salle Alumni Association Board of Directors. It is an enormous privilege, and I am extremely thankful to our wonderful alumni leaders, faculty, administrators and staff members for all of their guidance and support. A special thanks to the diligent and spirited leadership of President Mark DeMarco ‘78 for helping De La Salle soar to new heights. Our Academic programs are better than ever; we have the brightest students year over year; and De La Salle Athletics continues to prove its dominance!

These are exciting times at De La Salle! As we continue to pursue our goals with the 50th Anniversary Campaign it is important for all alumni to remember that we are only as strong as we are united. So, if you haven’t been involved lately, or haven’t been on campus recently, I invite you to participate with De La Salle again. Here you will find a multitude of opportunities to enrich your life and deepen you connection to your Spartan family. I will be traveling to as many alumni receptions and events as possible and I intend to reach out to alumni in each city where we host these receptions. Feel free reach out to your De La Salle Alumni Association by contacting Director of Alumni Relations Lloyd V. Schine III ’94 at (925) 288-8171 or schineL@dlshs.org for more information or to get involved today.

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Patrick Ball ’90 – Cloudera John Bellusa ’93 – Sierra Pacific Mortgae Co. Andrew Camera ’05 – Stephens Property Managemnet Oliver Duda ’04 – Morga Stanley Wealth Management Jimmy Estrada ’95 – Wells Fargo Advisors Bill Fortner ’86 – Lincoln Financial Advisors Richard McNell ’03 – Cork Supply USA, Inc. Anthony Papageorge ’99 – Cornish and Carey Commercial JJ Rassier ’98 – Wells Fargo Private Bank Scott Roberts ’93 – WestPac Wealth Partners Rick Steeb ’79 – RGB Spectrum Arie Van Gemeren ’05 – Goldman, Sachs & Co. Dominic Villa ’05 – Summit Funding Richard Whelan ’98 – Farmers Insurance

Calling the Class of 2010: Your 5 Year Reunion is just around the corner!

Class of 2010, your first ever reunion will be a wonderful time to gather together since your graduation day at De La Salle. Join with your Spartan alumni to renew the brotherhood you felt on campus, and keep your connection with De La Salle alive. Tickets are $25 each when purchased ahead of time, $30 at the door.

Keep up with DLS Alumni news and events on

Class of 2010 - Five Year Reunion Saturday, November 28, 2015 • 7:30 p.m.

Pyramid Brewing Company 1410 Locust Street, Walnut Creek, California

Visit the Reunion page on the De La Salle website, www.dlshs.org to purchase your tickets and for complete details. Don’t forget to update your contact information, so that you can continue to stay informed about alumni events and opportunities at De La Salle. For more information please contact Lloyd Schine III ’94 (925) 288-8171 or schineL@dlshs.org.

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The 32nd Annual Brother Maris Golf Tournament Is May 9, 2016

The 31st Annual Brother Maris Golf Tournament had over 140 Golfers and raised more than $28,000.00 in monies dedicated for DLS student financial aid. The 32nd annual Brother Maris Golf Tournament, hosted by the De La Salle Alumni Association will take place on Monday, May 9, 2016 at the historic Diablo Country Club. The event honors Brother Maris Spillane, FSC, a teacher and golf coach in De La Salle early years. The proceeds will benefit student financial aid. A shotgun start, fun contests, special hole prizes and hole-in-one prizes, and the high-stakes shootout.

The event sells out fast, and registration on-line opens eight weeks prior to the day. The fun includes tee prizes, refreshments, lunch, and end-of-day cocktail reception and dinner with raffles and silent auction. Join us in helping to raise funds to support the Alumni Endowment for Spartans or the Future.

For information or if you are interested in sponsorship, please call Lloyd Schine III ’94 at 925-288-8171 or email schinel@dlshs.org.

A Classic Evening Diablo Country Club Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 5:30 p.m.

- $65 per person (includes hosted bar 5:30 - 6:30 and sit down dinner) - Cocktail attire - Purchase your tickets online at www.dlshs.org

A Classic Evening on Saturday night is open to all. Come and join us for an evening of good friends, delicious sit down dinner, silent and live auction benefitting financial aid.

For more information, contact Lauren Seeno at (925) 288-8184 or seenol@dlshs.org

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alumni news De La Salle High School Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Is October 25, 2015 De La Salle honors its Distinguished Alumnus of the Year and inducts new members into the Athletic Hall of Fame Charles “Chad” Taylor ’01: Chad’s accomplishments in water polo, swimming, and soccer were extraordinary.

He was a two-time All-American in water polo and swimming, a North Coast Section MVP in water polo, and is considered the best water polo goalie in Spartan history. In soccer he was named First Team NCS, and in track and field he qualified for the NCS meet in the pole vault. He was De La Salle’s Athlete of the year in 2001, and went on to a great college career as goalkeeper for Stanford’s water polo team.

The Distinguished Alumnus of the Year is Brigadier General Timothy P. McGuire, U. S. Army, a De La Salle graduate of 1983.

General McGuire went to West Point from De La Salle and received his commission in 1987. His B.A. is in history, and he has master’s degrees in International Relations and National Security and Strategic Studies. General McGuire’s Army service has been varied, including commands in infantry, armored, and airborne units, and his decorations and awards are numerous. He is Commanding General of the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk in Louisiana.

Tom Dixon ’94: Tom was a starter on the varsity volleyball team for four years and a member of two leaguechampion teams. He was twice a member of the USA youth national team, had a record-setting college career at Loyola Marymount University, and played professionally in Denmark and Spain. As an assistant coach at De La Salle in 2000 to 2002, he helped lead the Spartans to three NCS volleyball titles.

Rashad Floyd ’96: Rashad was a standout athlete, playing football and basketball and running track at De La Salle, all with great success. He graduated from Portland State University, where he was a starting point guard in basketball and an AllAmerican defensive back in football, and went on to play nine years of professional football, winning an Arena Bowl Championship.

Tom Prindiville ’97: Tom was a premier track and cross country runner all four years of high school, and was named De La Salle’s Athlete of the Year in 1997. He was an All-State performer as a sophomore, junior, and senior, and an All-American cross country runner in 1995. He still owns the school record in the 800meter run. Tom went on to a stellar running career at the University of Arizona.

Maurice Jones-Drew ’03: Maurice, who recently retired from the National Football League after a stellar career, was one of the country’s best running backs at De La Salle and then at UCLA before signing in 2006 with the Jacksonville Jaguars of the NFL. He led the NFL in rushing yards in 2011, and he was named to the Pro-Bowl three times. But he was a national figure as early as 2001, for his breakout performance in De La Salle’s 29-15 victory over Long Beach Poly. As a Spartan, he was rated the number-one all-purpose high school running back in the nation.

Tea Hieta: Coach Tea Hieta is the first woman named to the Athletic Hall of Fame at this all-boys school. Hieta coached volleyball at De La Salle from 1997 to 2001 and guided the Spartans to their first and second North Coast Section volleyball titles. A four-time AllAmerican player for Brigham Young University and a Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year in 1990, she is a native of Finland and was a member of that country’s World Champion team.

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alumni news commitment to one another were second to none, and they made the 1992 season a perfect one, including winning the NCS title, State Championship. The 1992 varsity was ranked third in the nation, and is the team that started “The Streak,” an unmatched achievement in football history.

The 1997 Baseball Team: Winners of both the league title and the North Coast Section title, the 1997 varsity baseball team posted a 25-3 record, dominating opponents in every category of play. All nine of the starting players went on to play college baseball, as did the team’s top three pitchers.

On Sunday, October 25, 2015 De La Salle is pleased to host the “Evening of Honor” celebrating tremendous Alumni and their accomplishments on and off the field. The event begins at 3:00 p.m., with reception immediately following, in the Hofmann Student Center at De La Salle High School, 1130 Winton Drive, Concord CA 94518. For more information, contact Director of Alumni Relations Lloyd Schine III ’94 at SchineL@dlshs.org or by phone at 925-288-8171.

Abramson Brett Alumbaugh Justin Arieta Nolan Basso Dan Christensen Bobby Del Chiaro Brendan Dennis Jason Frey David Grimesey Pat Hicklin Brian Manoogian Matt Meyer Robbie Morte Jason Shipley Mike Smith Kheyln Steen Andy Tankersley Pat Utter Josh Wersel Matt coaches Jensen Bruce Castello Matt Fergueson Don

Thank you to the 31st Annual De La Salle Golf Classic Sponsors

Spartan Sponsor

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The David & Lisa Behring Family Concord Iron Works, Inc. CytoSport, Inc. D.W. Morgan LLC Epic Brokers & Consultants The Fogel Family Garaventa Enterprises The Hooker Family Oxbow Energy Solutions, LLC S and S Supplies and Solutions The Zumbo Family

Lasallian Sponsor

The Conco Companies

Silver Sponsor

Alphagraphics, Walnut Creek Armanino LLP

Green Sponsor

The Wilhelmy Family

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Baseball

EBAL Co-Champs NCS 2nd place

Golf

2nd in EBAL, NCS Champions

Lacrosse

Track & Field

2nd in EBAL

2nd place in EBAL

3rd place at EBAL Meet

EBAL Co-Champs, NCS 2nd place

Swimming & Diving Tennis

Volleyball

3rd place in EBAL, Singles champion

All-League Honors in East Bay Athletic League

Baseball: First team: Michael McAdoo, Justin Hooper, Michael Reuling, Andrew Schatz; Second team: Cameron Schneider, Kevin Sandri; Honorable mention: Blake Ogburn, Armani Smith, Connor Redmond. Golf: First team: Josh McCarthy; Second team: Cole Houghton, Cade Mayer. Lacrosse: First team: Mitch Olinger; Second team: Brooke Rideau, Conor Maloney, John Perlite; Honorable mention: Jackson Thuma, Ben Allen, Eric Morgan. Tennis: First team: Marcus Ferreira; Second team: Mariana Salvador, Nolan Bebarta, Matt Trinkus. Track and Field: Isaias De Leon (800m), Roc Johnson (1600 and 3200m), Jonathan Harvey (100 HH and 300 H). Volleyball: First team: Bailey Militar, Scott Ficken; Second team: Davis Monsarrat-Ford, Ryan Byrne; Honorable mention: Tommy Cunnie. Swimming: Forrest White (200 free and 100 back), Dominic Dalpiaz (100 free).

All-East Bay Honors from Bay Area News Group

Baseball: Justin Hooper first team pitcher (selected by Milwaukee in the MLB draft, headed to UCLA); Michael McAdoo first team outfielder (headed to UC Santa Barbara, EBAL MVP); Cameron Schneider and Michael Reuling second team.

Track: Jonathan Harvey (MOC 300H champion); Roc Johnson (MOC 1600m champion). Golf: Josh McCarthy (Pepperdine commit, shot 74 at NCS). Volleyball: Bailey Militar second team. Mitch Olinger first team (headed to Notre Dame).

Honors for Coaches

California Coaches Association NorCal Cross Country Coach of the Year - John Pelster ’87, De La Salle.

Contra Costa Times Wrestling Coach of the Year - Mark Halvorson, De La Salle: The Spartans won the NCS team and dual match championships with a lineup with more varsity newcomers (eight) than returnees (six). A school-record 12 Spartans placed in the top six at NCS, with individual titles from Donovin Guerrero (113 pounds), Nathan Cervantez (126), Gavin Hummel (170) and Darryl Aiello (220). At state, Cervantez took second, Aiello was third and Guerrero placed fourth as De La Salle finished sixth.

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DAT ES TO REMEMB ER Sunday, October 25

Sunday, November 1 Wednesday, November 25 Wednesday, November 25 Saturday, November 28 Saturday, November 28 Wednesday, December 9 Thur-Saturday, December 10-12 Saturday, January 23 Thursday, February 25 Saturday, April 30 Monday, May 9 Summer 2016

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2015 - 2016

An Evening of Honor: Alumnus of the Year and Athletic Hall of Fame Open House for Prospective Students Alumni Soccer Game Alumni Basketball Game Alumni Lacross Game Class of 2010, Five-Year Reunion Band and Choir Christmas Concert Chris Vontoure Basketball Classic Crab Feed Wine and Food: A Taste of De La Salle FETE Auction Brother Maris Golf Tournament Class Reunions 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011

De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus Pyramid Alehouse (Walnut Creek) De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus De La Salle Campus Diablo Country Club Diablo Country Club

2015 - 2016 TBA