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ROOTS &WINGS WHAT’S INSIDE FEATURES
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A CENTURY OF YEARBOOKS
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8 JUST A KID FROM KENSINGTON
11 RAISING THE BAR
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18 PHOTO GALLERIES
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2 LET US REMEMBER (LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT)
32 WE WELCOME AND REMEMBER ( B I R T H S A N D D E AT H S )
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT DEAR ALUMNI, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS:
Yet they find their wings too. Perhaps inspired by their Urban Immersion,
“Two things we can give our children. One is roots, and the other, wings.” It’s almost a vocation within a vocation, you know. Lots of men have been called to be Christian Brothers over the decades since we were established in this country back in 1845. But only a select group within that company of educators has been called to the rarified air at the summit of that vocation. No, not the office of Superior General. Rather this: Being a Mothers’ Club moderator. Many of us fondly remember Brother Fred Stelmach, FSC, long-time moderator here. But other schools had their equivalent figure: Brother Andrew O’Gara, FSC at Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, Brother Timothy Dean, FSC at Saint John’s College High School in DC, and our own Brother Raymond Murphy, FSC back at Hudson Catholic in Jersey City.
to geographically distant or demographically distinctive colleges, others to professions and careers that weren’t even thought of when they were in school. While many, like our 2019 William J. Whelan ’55 Alumni Service Award recipient Bill Ernst ’81, lead fulfilling lives in close proximity to 19038, others show up on reunion mailing lists with addresses in Spain, Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, or New Zealand. Whatever their geography, their psychology displays that independence of thought and commitment to action by which you can always tell a La Salle man. Our latest inductees into the Alumni Hall of Fame at La Salle College High School have shown the depth of their roots. Rick DiBella ’71 and Gregg Melinson, Esq. ’82 are both second generation Brothers’ Boys. Gregg’s dad Jim graduated from here in 1957, of course, and Rick’s father
I may not have shown the longevity of some of my confreres, but, unlike most of them, I can claim breadth of experience. You see, over the past two decades, I have been Mothers’ Club moderator in three different schools, culminating in the past seven years here at La Salle. While each association of dedicated women represented their school’s unique school culture, they had many things in common, including this: each group at some point made thematic use of the quotation that serves as the epigraph starting this letter. At very different events throughout the Mothers’ Club annual cycle, this maxim spoke significantly enough to at least one event chair that she included it somewhere in the program or in her remarks. That’s no mere coincidence. Giving students roots and wings is something Lasallian schools simply excel at. Early in the freshman year – perhaps even on his VIP shadow day – a fourteen-year-old student just gets the sense, “you belong here.” He may be timid getting out of the car that first day of freshman orientation when the band is playing, and all the senior officers are lined up with us in front of the school. But by the time Grandparents’ Day rolls around in the spring, he’s channeling his inner Lord Grantham, blithely and knowledgably showing off his domain to his beloved Nan and Pop. Sometime late in senior year, it dawns on him: “I really do have to leave this place soon. This place where I’ve belonged, where I’ve been…happy.” And all at once that irksome senior cynicism that first appeared back around Christmas melts away. It’s replaced by a consciousness of roots, those ties to this particular piece of William Penn’s Manor that bring them back in droves that first collegiate Thanksgiving break, back consistently over the years, back as Golden Explorers to participate in their second La Salle graduation, a little more relaxed than the first time around.
Junior Summer Service, and Kairos experiences, they branch out, some
experienced the guidance of the Brothers at Saint Francis in Eddington. Gregg’s own two sons J.P. and Austin continue this tradition for another generation. Both honorees earned a bachelor’s degree at “the College” and have never forgotten their formative years as city boys attending school at the Wyndmoor campus. Yet their chosen vocations were to take Rick and Gregg far afield. Rick made his career in real estate investment in the nation’s capital and Northern Virginia, while Gregg, after beginning his career at Philadelphia’s esteemed Drinker Biddle law firm, has become comfortable crisscrossing the world as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Hewlett Packard. Wherever their professional life has led them, though, both Rick and Gregg have found ways to show their commitment to their alma mater, both serving as members of the Board of Trustees. I am personally lucky to have learned much over the years from working in service of La Salle alongside two men with such deep rootedness and panoramic perspective. And wasn’t it also a privilege to participate in recognizing two men who were for so long both faithful and successful in providing that anchor and sustenance all roots exist to provide? By honoring long-time principals Brother Edward Gallagher, FSC and Brother Andrew Bartley, FSC for their influence and achievement, La Salle ratifies a simple fact long and well understood by our graduates from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. These men are in many ways makers of the modern La Salle, the nest from which those alumni “earned their wings.” No more fitting honor can be given than to say simply “you are one of us,” loyal sons of La Salle, now and forever.
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Over the past five years or so, La Salle’s promotional videos have benefited
Inspired by the example of the men we celebrated this March and
from the advances in and popularization of drone technology. We can now
confirmed by the experience of all who sit in their seats today, may
produce many views of this campus which make it seem like we truly had
La Salle always be recognizably sacred ground, ground “proper to grow
wings. The full panoply of facilities and programing is on display from such
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a vantage point. That’s one way to look at things. You need to get much closer in, though, to understand how La Salle works as an experience,
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functions as an alma mater able to both ground and launch her generations of sons. It works because it suffuses transient experiences of adolescence with glimmers of the eternal. That experience endures because it is solid, solid in the sense that early twenty-first century slang intended, and solid in the sense that English poet Philip Larkin discovers when he visits the deserted Anglican sanctuary in rural Ireland his lyric masterpiece “Church Going” recalls and is moved to conclude:
A serious house on serious earth it is,
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In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognized, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious,
BROTHER JAMES L. BUTLER, FSC PRESIDENT
Two things we can give our children. One is roots, and the other, wings.
And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in.
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HIGHLIGHTS
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FIRST SEMESTER
CLASS OF 2022
MEN OF INTELLECT
La Salle College High School opened its doors on August 28, 2018 for the start of the school’s 160th academic year. 276 boys from local middle and elementary schools were welcomed to the Class of 2022 by the faculty, staff, and administration with various orientation activities. The students were greeted at the entrance of the school by Brother James Butler, FSC, Principal Michael O’Toole ’68, senior members of the Student Council, the Explorer mascot, and the sounds of the Pep Band.
The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced that 15 seniors from La Salle College High School were recognized by the National Merit Program. Four were named as Semifinalists in the 2019 competition for National Merit Scholarship Awards. These young men are among the top one percent of high school students in the nation based on the results of the 2018 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Qualifying Test. Eleven additional young men were recognized as Commended Students.
NEW MOTHERS’ TEA
COLLEGE INTERVIEW DAY
The Mothers’ Club welcomed new mothers to the La Salle community on September 23, 2018 at the annual New Mother’s Tea. Over 225 mothers in all – 200 of them who were new to La Salle – attended the event that was held in the gymnasium. Brother James Butler, FSC, Principal Michael O’Toole ’68, and Mothers’ Club President, Mrs. Liz Grady, spoke to the mothers regarding different aspects of life at La Salle College High School. The mothers enjoyed light refreshments and came away with many new acquaintances.
On October 2, 2018, the Class of 2019 participated in the school’s annual College Interview Day. Held in the school gymnasium, admissions representatives from over 50 colleges spanning the entire East Coast attended the event. Seniors were scheduled for individual appointments with the colleges of their choice. In the exchange, seniors presented their transcripts, had the opportunity to provide additional personal information, and asked questions about the colleges and universities.
GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS OPEN HOUSE Almost 500 families toured the buildings and campus during the Open House on September 30, 2018. Tours were conducted by tandems of Student Ambassadors that included an upperclassman along with an underclassman, which allowed for smaller groups to visit particular areas of interest. Music filled the air as over 100 musicians performed throughout the day. All nineteen athletic teams were located in the gym, the academic departments were located in the Glaser Center, and over 50 clubs and activities were represented in “The Pit” (the courtyard adjacent to the Glaser Center). Trolley’s with student tour guides provided tours of the school’s 84-acre campus.
On October 2, 2018, La Salle College High School successfully defended their title by winning the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship in golf. The Explorers’ overall score of 457 at LuLu Country Club was 2 strokes better than Saint Joseph’s Prep and 29 strokes better than Devon Prep. It was the 16th time that La Salle has won the Philadelphia Catholic League Golf Championship since 2000. The following week, the Explorers won the District 12 Championship as Steve Lorenzo ’20 was crowned as the individual champion. Two days later, La Salle defeated the District 11 champions, Emmaus High School, at the Steel Club in Hellertown, to advance to the State Finals in York, PA.
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GOLDEN EXPLORERS RETURN TO CAMPUS
HONORS CONVOCATION
Almost 100 Golden Explorers – alumni who graduated more than fifty years ago from La Salle College High School – returned to campus on October 3, 2018 for the annual Golden Explorers Luncheon. The day began with Mass celebrated in the Marian Chapel by Reverend Francis Danielski, O. Praem ’67 and was followed by a brunch in the auditorium. Reunions were celebrated by the Classes of 1948, 1953, 1958, and 1963. The day provided an opportunity to catch up with old friends and classmates, reminisce about the glory days at “20th and Olney,” and learn about the exciting things going on today at their alma mater.
La Salle College High School held its annual Academic Convocation on October 18, 2018 and awarded a Scholastic “L” to 283 First Honor Students – 116 seniors, 79 juniors, and 88 sophomores – who distinguished themselves by attaining a final grade point average of 3.75 or above and no grade below a “B-” at the conclusion of the 2017-2018 academic year. In addition, 189 boys – 83 seniors, 52 juniors, and 54 sophomores – were recognized for having a final GPA of 4.0 or higher at the conclusion of the 2017-2018 school year. Dino Dedic ’02, a Director at Barclays Investment Bank in New York City, addressed the students and parents. Mr. Thomas Barna and Brother William DiPasquale, FSC were honored for their 25 years of service to the school as a member of the faculty.
FATHER/SON GOLF OUTING The Men of La Salle held their annual Father/Son Golf Outing on October 8, 2018 at Northampton Valley Country Club in Richboro. A full field of over 125 fathers and sons played in near perfect conditions and spent the day together on the golf course and, afterwards, enjoyed lunch in the clubhouse.
FRESHMAN BRANCH-OUT DAY On October 9, 2018, the freshman class (Class of 2022) participated in Freshman Branch-Out Day. Over 275 students, along with 160 of their fathers and 25 members of school’s faculty and staff, performed a day of service at 21 different “under-served” sites in the Philadelphia Area. This year marked the 17th consecutive year that the freshman class at La Salle College High School has “branched out” in service to the community. In total, over 450 members of the La Salle community collectively provided over 1,600 hours of service to these organizations. The day concluded with a discussion about the integral role community service plays in the Lasallian mission and a challenge to the freshman to find their role in that mission.
ONE ACT PLAYS The Theater Program at La Salle College High School performed seven different one act plays – including two student-written and student-directed shows – as part of the school’s 6th Annual One Act Play Festival held in the auditorium October 19-20, 2018. Directed by Mr. Michael McCabe ’08, Mr. Jack Mills ’13, and Mr. Michael Sabatino, a group of 26 actors and actresses staged two performances of the plays.
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HIGHLIGHTS
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FIRST SEMESTER
HELP SPREAD THE WARMTH
JUNIOR CLASS CELEBRATES LEADERSHIP
Each Tuesday evening, a group of upperclassmen participate in Homeless Outreach, bringing a hot meal and clean clothes to those in need in Philadelphia. As the colder months approach, these people are in need of clothes and blankets to keep them safe and warm. The Ministry and Service Team hosted a drive October 22-26, 2018. Donation boxes were located outside of the Main Office and items such as blankets, sweatshirts, sweatpants, new socks and underwear, gloves, and duffle bags were collected and donated to local people in need.
On November 11, 2018, over 260 members of the Class of 2020, along with their families, attended the Brother Edward Gallagher, FSC Leadership Liturgy. Named in honor of Brother Edward Gallagher, FSC who twice served as Principal of La Salle College High School (1966-69 and 1972-77), the event marked the transition to leadership for the junior class. The day began with a Mass celebrated in the gymnasium by Reverend Michael McCue, OSFS and Deacon John Mischler ’82 and concluded with a leadership pledge along with the blessing and presentation of the Class of 2020 Leadership Pin along with class rings for those who purchased them.
HEADS OF STATE The Cross Country team captured the Philadelphia Catholic League Championship for the fourth consecutive year and eleventh time since 2003 by scoring a perfect 15 points and had six runners from the same team finish in the top six places. La Salle repeated as District 12 Champions the following week to advance to the Pennsylvania State Championship in Hershey, PA, where the Explorers finished in second place behind North Allegheny High School.
EVERY CAN COUNTS The Thanksgiving Food Drive to benefit Saint Vincent’s Parish in Germantown and La Salle’s Pheed Philly service initiative wrapped up on November 20, 2018. Homeroom 10C (Mr. Heasley) collected over 1,400 cans to repeat as the Homeroom Champion. In all, over 20,000 cans and non-perishable food items were collected by the La Salle community and will be used to benefit families in need around the Thanksgiving holiday and throughout the year. A Thanksgiving Prayer Service organized by the Mission and Ministry Leadership Team and led by Deacon John Mischler ’82 was held in the gymnasium on Tuesday morning, November 20, 2018 and attended by the entire student-body. Students packed the food into boxes and prepared it for transport to the pantry at Saint Vincent’s Parish in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, which serves those in need in North Philadelphia. Additional cans were delivered to the Share Food Program along with the Mission of Saint Joan of Arc in Kennsington.
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SENIOR MOTHERS TRIM TREE
MIRACLE OF CHRISTMAS
Over 200 mothers of seniors gathered in the auditorium on November 27, 2018 to decorate and light one of the many Christmas Trees on campus during the Christmas Season. This annual tradition where each mother (or grandmother) hangs a Christmas ornament inscribed with the name of their son brought together mothers from the Class of 2019 for a special moment to commemorate their son’s time at La Salle College High School. A reception was held and the evening concluded with a candle ceremony and special prayer.
During the morning hours of Christmas Eve, nearly 180 students (29 Santas and 149 elves) – representing 17% of the student body – delivered presents to the homes of 88 pediatric oncology and hematology patients from Saint Christopher’s Hospital for Children. The day marked the 18th consecutive year that La Salle College High School has partnered with Committee to Benefit the Children to bring the “Miracle of Christmas” to these children and their siblings. Over $18,000 was raised from the La Salle community to purchase gifts that were wrapped, tagged, bagged, and delivered to over 250 children on the morning of Christmas Eve. Additional gifts were donated by families who “adopted” patients and their siblings. Over 60 parents and alums accompanied the students as they made deliveries into twelve counties in two states. The students sang songs (some even played instruments) and brought joy to every home.
SOUNDS OF THE SEASON The Music Department at La Salle College High School performed their annual Christmas Concert to a capacity crowd in the auditorium on December 3, 2018. Over 600 people attended the concert, which featured almost 200 musicians in eight different ensembles, performing fourteen numbers. The Concert Band, with over fifty musicians, was accompanied by a choir comprised of over 70 boys from La Salle College High School and girls from Gwynedd Mercy Academy and Mount Saint Joseph Academy. Together they performed Christmas On Broadway and White Christmas. The following week, on December 10, 2018, the Choral Program treated the audience in the auditorium to fifteen arrangements featuring the voices of over 90 young men – the largest number in the history of the program – in the three ensembles under the direction of Mr. Mark Norman, who performed numbers that included Hallelujah, Do You Hear What I Hear?, Mary, Did You Know?, Carol of the Bells, and Believe.
SCHOLARSHIP RECEPTION La Salle College High School awarded 75 scholarships to 8th grade boys and, on January 10, 2019, the La Salle community hosted these young men along with their parents and a favorite teacher from their grade school, at a Scholarship Reception. The guests were addressed by current seniors Shea Diehl and Peter Taylor. The scholarship recipients and their families were hosted at their table by a current senior and junior along with a member of the faculty/staff. Over 60 scholarship recipients will be attending La Salle College High School as members of the Class of 2022.
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N TALKING WITH RICK DIBELLA, CLASS OF 1971 AND A 2019 INDUCTEE INTO THE LA SALLE COLLEGE
HIGH SCHOOL HALL OF FAME, HE WOULD TELL YOU THAT HIS TIME ON THE WYNDMOOR, PA, CAMPUS WAS, IN A WORD, UNRMARKABLE. HIS YEARBOOK LISTS HIM AS A FOUR-YEAR INTRAMURAL PARTICIPANT, A MEMBER OF THE NEWSPAPER FOR THREE YEARS, AND A SPANISH CLUB PARTICIPANT FOR ONE YEAR. BUT, IN THE SAME BREATH, DIBELLA WOULD WITHOUT A DOUBT SAY THAT, IF HE COULD PICK ANY FOUR YEARS IN HIS LIFE TO GO BACK AND RE-LIVE, IT’D BE THE FOUR YEARS HE SPENT UP ON CHELTENHAM AVENUE.
BY ROBERT L. STOTT ’06
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“I loved going to that school. My freshman year when I played intramural basketball I realized it was open on Saturdays so I used to go there three out of four Saturdays a month and just hang out,” DiBella said. “There’s a saying that a man’s village is his peace of mind. That school was my peace of mind. So the day I left in June of 1971, it was gut wrenching for me. I was prepared to go, but never ready to go.” After graduating, DiBella went on to LaSalle University where, in four years, he earned a B.S. in accounting and went on to get his CPA. He then spent some time in public accounting before returning to school where he earned an MBA from Temple University in 1980. DiBella cut his chops in finance at Weyerhauser Real Estate in Philadelphia, a firm that he spent some 16 years, moving to Northern Virginia in 1983. In 1996, he became President of Pulte Homes, Washington DC operations. Both companies are among the premiere homebuilders in the country. Sitting down with DiBella for an hour or so, I learned several things about the man: He’s incredibly humble, off-the-charts intelligent and hardworking, and without a doubt one of the most caring individuals I’ve had the opportunity to get to know. All of those traits can be traced back to two things: His upbringing, and his Lasallian education. His humbleness as a human being perhaps is most directly related to him being, as he calls himself, just a kid from Kensington. It’s the bluecollar, hardworking nature of the area at that time that certainly instilled itself in him, and resulted in DiBella ultimately finding his passion in the homebuilding industry and working incredibly hard at it.
As a finance professional, though, DiBella’s career was mostly set before him. As he tells it though,
“Anyone who tells you luck isn’t a matter of their success is probably not really being honest with themselves.” DiBella’s own luck likely rested in an individual early on in his stint at Weyerhaeuser who decided to take a chance on him. Though he joined the company as a finance guy, DiBella spent plenty of time in other parts of the business as well. Noticing his success in various parts of the business, the president of the company at the time approached him with an offer – to take over sales and marketing. DiBella said it took him two weeks at the time to make a decision that today would’ve taken some 30 seconds.
“It opened up a whole different side of the business,” he said. “It was a lot more fun spending the money than it was watching it. And so from there, land acquisition, then operations, and then president – my career just took off. I don’t think any of that would have happened if I didn’t make that first move. I might’ve just been the finance guy for a while.” Fast forward to his time at Pulte, and DiBella had worked his way up to East Region President of the company, which put him in charge of a division with revenue in excess of $5 billion at the time of his departure in 2008. His responsibilities there included strategic direction for the company, capital allocation, and operation performance oversight for more than 20 divisions up and down the East Coast. Today, DiBella resides in Oakton, Virginia, with his wife, Madelyn. Their three children, Julie, Matthew, and Samantha, and grandchildren, Tyler and Avery, all reside in the Washington, DC area.
“I don’t think I was a workaholic, but I did work a lot of hours and it was really just out of the passion and the love for the homebuilding business. I was almost made for that business. The Kensington of my youth was full of proud people – not to disparage, but very common people,” he said. “And when you’re in the homebuilding business the people who build your homes are very similar. They have great work ethic. They have great pride in their work. You meet a lot of arrogant people in homebuilding – a lot of egos in that business. Spending time with the field operations personnel who built and sold our homes kept you honest about the roots of your success.”
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DiBella is now a managing partner at PHD Associates, a land development firm that buys large scale residential properties and develops for national homebuilders. Ultimately, when it comes to the homebuilding industry and what drove his passion for the space, DiBella said it has everything to do with building and serving communities. Brother Carl Clayton, FSC an often-referenced influence on Lasallians of DiBella’s and many other generations, certainly had a lot to do with that.
“You learn so much of it by watching him, how kind he was, how generous he was with his time, sincere, curious, and witty,” he said. “Brother Carl taught me so many things outside of academics – life lessons that never left me. I would just say that he taught me how to really care for people how he cared for me.” DiBella certainly applies that he does each and every day.
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That influence spilled over to his career, especially later in life when, as DiBella said, his days ahead of him career-wise were shorter than the days behind him. It was at that point that he learned he could be just as good of a teacher in the field, and he made a point to help educate junior staff.
“Too many people like to talk about their successes,” he said. “I always found that your failures were your better teaching opportunities.” Something unbelievable about DiBella’s story – but perhaps not uncommon – is that, despite the influence this high school has had on his life, he spent more than 30 years away from the campus. After graduating in 1971, he didn’t step foot inside these halls prior to accepting an invitation to join the Board of Trustees nearly 36 years later. Despite having been physically disconnected from the La Salle College High School campus for three-plus decades, he remained a regular contributor to various scholarship funds and capital campaigns. His giving nature, he said, was without a doubt ingrained in him by his parents.
“I think people would say to you about me, in my business “I was a junior in high school and I remember doing their those that know me, we build communities,” he said. “I really look at it in its final stage when I start. What is it that I can do tax returns when they made $20,000 together for the first time, and I felt we had hit the big time,” he said. “But they to improve the lives of the people that are going to live around never missed a church envelope or a reason to give the Catholic the community? Are there parks I can build? Are there roads Charities or something. So it was kind of in my DNA to I can build? Is there something I could do with schools that, give back.” when I leave, it’ll be a better place? Even in my communities if they asked for something more than was planned I try my best to DiBella’s mother was one of 11 kids and had to work early in life to help make end meet for her family. His father, who was swept into an orphanage meet those needs. I don’t think I’ve ever made a decision where early in life before going off into the military, is himself a Brothers’ boy. And I worried about what the financial cost was to me if I knew it it’s to that latter fact that DiBella credits his own path in life right through to La Salle. was the right thing to do for the people in the community, and it left the community a better place. I think part of that is my As for what advice he’d offer to students today at La Salle to ensure they Christian Brother training in terms of, you know, life is a round get the most out of their experience on campus, DiBella said it all depends on the makeup of the individual. a wheel. Success comes around if you do it right. Things happen that are good for you. People who respect what you do, who trust “Some people need the competition of sport. For some people what you do will come back to you. And I just can’t help but it’s all about the academics, and there’s so much pressure think that that’s part of what I learned from the Brothers.” on what school you get into. But don’t miss the culture,” he said. “Don’t miss the lessons of kindness and care and the values and the beliefs that this La Salle community has. It is obvious to me that the La Salle of today is still teaching the lessons that I took away from this campus almost 50 years ago.”
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Gregg graduated a few months before I entered La Salle in the fall of 1982. But I heard the name Gregg Melinson ’82 on my very first day – he was already a legend. It was in Brother Linus Finn’s typing class, I was number 21 boy, to my left was number 20 boy, Sean McCook, and to my right was number 22 boy, Keith Melinson. Gregg, at that time, held
the La Salle College High School typing record with 97 words a minute. Brother Linus had high expectations of Gregg’s younger brother Keith – “yo, yo, yo… number 22 boy… can he beat number 20 boy?” Keith could not type at all….
BY JOHN J. MEKO, JR. ’86
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LA SALLE AND GRADUATING NEAR THE TOP OF THE CLASS OF 1982. HE ATTENDED LA SALLE UNIVERSITY, GRADUATING MAXIMA CUM LAUDE WITH A B.A. IN ENGLISH, AND THEN EARNED A J.D. DEGREE FROM THE DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW. Gregg Melinson ’82 seemed destined to be an attorney. Even as a young boy, practicing law seemed to come naturally. His first job was at the Gold Medal Sporting Goods store in his neighborhood of Somerton. All he wanted to do was to work in the store with all of the athletic gear, but the
CEO noticed him, and quickly put him to work in the corporate offices where he did filing, clerical, and accounting work. As fate would have it, Gold Medal was negotiating a lease agreement for a new store at the Willow Grove Mall. And…yes, Gregg wound up negotiating the lease. A draft of the agreement would be delivered, Gregg would review it, make revisions and demands, and send it back for further revisions, until Gold Medal got the deal they were satisfied with. On the day of the opening of the new store, the CEO eagerly introduced Gregg, to his opposing counsel, which were a team of attorney’s from Black Rome Comisky & McCauley. Gregg had got the best of them at the age of 17. The CEO of Gold Medal was so impressed with Gregg that he begged Gregg to join him as in-house council when he graduated. He told Gregg to “name your salary.” Gregg thought and imagined the largest salary he could – $42,250! Despite the opportunity at Gold Medal, Gregg joined the law firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP after graduating from Duke and began what would be a distinguished career in law. He founded and led the firm’s Government
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Affairs practice and took a leave of absence from 1995 to 1997 to serve the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Governor Tom Ridge as Deputy General Council. While working in this position, Gregg commuted daily from Philadelphia to Harrisburg, and he still never missed a meeting of the La Salle College High Alumni Association Board. Gregg returned to Drinker Biddle & Reath and led the firm’s unprecedented growth as the Chief Marketing Partner. He managed all strategic client development activities and helped double firm revenue between 2005 and 2010. He became an active civic leader. He was a founding board member of the Commonwealth Financing Corporation, he served on and chaired the Pennsylvania Economy League Board, Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Select Greater Philadelphia, the Voter Modernization Taskforce, and was involved in several political campaigns. He also became a TV personality, regularly appearing on 6ABC’s Inside Story to discuss the political landscape and other current topics. He was involved with numerous charitable organizations, from Cora Services to the American Heart Association. He served on the board of the Celiac Awareness Association, and on the Alumni Association of La Salle College High School as well as the Board of Trustees. He currently sits on the executive committees of the boards of directors of the Information Technology Industry Council and TechNet, two of the technology industry’s leading advocacy groups. Gregg has written and spoken on a number of topics, including economic competitiveness, international business strategy, election law, and advocacy in administrative rulemaking. Most recently, he lectured at the Stanford University Directors College on the role of boards in overseeing corporate political activity. Along the way he found his soulmate Pam, and they had two future Lasallians Austin and J.P. and together, the Melinson family created a wonderful home in Blue Bell. In 2011, Gregg had a remarkable opportunity to join the Hewlett-Packard Company as Vice President for Global Government Affairs and Deputy General Counsel. The decision was not easy, as the job would take him and his family across the country, away from Philadelphia, family, and importantly, La Salle. Gregg and Pam agonized over this decision, and finally made the choice to go to Northern California, with a pledge that they would return so that Austin and JP could attend La Salle.
Gregg drove Hewlett-Packard’s political and public policy agenda and supported the growth of HP’s Public Sector business. In September of 2013, he was named Senior Vice-President for Corporate Affairs, responsible for protecting and enhancing HP’s reputation as a global corporate citizen with a broad range of constituents. When asked what he finds most fulfilling about his position at HP, Gregg responded:
“The scale of a company like HP (with almost 300,000 employees in 170 different countries) gives you incredible opportunities to change the world. At $120 billion in revenues, HP is a bigger economy than most countries – so when we talk, people tend to listen. That kind of influence comes with incredible responsibility, and one of the most gratifying parts of my job is carrying out that responsibility by making sure that the people and technologies of the Hewlett-Packard Company are used every day, not only to drive shareholder value, but also to improve the lives of people around the world. I have also found it incredibly fulfilling, in every organization with which I have been associated (including Drinker Biddle) to have had the opportunity to lead growth, working alongside incredibly smart and talented people.” Gregg, Pam, and the boys returned to the area in 2014 and somehow Gregg continues to work for HP in the same role, from Philadelphia. J.P. graduated in 2017 and Austin will graduate in June as a member of the Class of 2019. Gregg’s success and the impact he has had is actually not surprising because he comes from a family where love of Country, Community, God… and La Salle, is all a given. Where service to each other as individuals and service to the greater good – the “Common Good” – is a way of life. Gregg Melinson ’82 has a generosity of spirit that is present in all that he does. And, somehow, Gregg seems to have more hours in the day than anyone else. He always has time to help, always has time for his friends, his family, and for La Salle. We are all better for having Gregg and, it is this spirit of generosity that led to his induction into the La Salle College High School Hall of Fame.
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A CENTURY OF YEARBOOKS: 100 YEARS OF LA SALLE HISTORY BY JOSEPH F. D’ANGELO, ED.D. ’63
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have become a traditional
part of the fabric of high school life. For the past century, La Salle College High School students have been able to commemorate each academic year when they receive that year’s copy of The Blue and Gold. When a school has been around for 160 years, traditions become so well established that their origins are sometimes lost; they have always been. The Blue and Gold, a source of much of the school’s pictorial history is not only one of those longstanding traditions, but it also provides a glimpse into the lives of the students of the past that uniquely connects them to the present. They represent the collective memory of the school going back a century and provide a pictorial and written summary of the spirit of La Salle.
The oldest extant version of the La Salle College High School yearbook is, fittingly enough, called The Alpha and was published to commemorate the class of 1918. Its title page announces quite clearly what it was meant to be: a “Record of the Class of 1918.” Unlike the kind of annual we have come to expect, the focus of the first yearbook was almost entirely on the senior class which had only twenty-one graduates. The Alpha is also different in other ways. There are, for example, only thirtysix pictures in the entire book and most of material is made up of articles and essays highlighted with some drawings. Still, there is a good deal of interesting information about each graduate with a mini-biography that accompanies each senior portrait. Thus, we learn that one student was popular for his “manly and upright characteristics,” while another is “good in the journalistic line.”
The 1921 edition is given yet another name, The 2 in 1, and includes a photo of Denis Cardinal Dougherty, then Archbishop of Philadelphia. Once again, each of the twenty-five graduates has a written biography. Sports coverage has been increased and this book also includes “commercial” seniors for the first time, a group of twenty-eight young men. It also includes pages listing where members of the classes of 1918, 1919, and 1920 went to college or were up to after they left La Salle.
The La Salle athletic ethos was also there a century ago. The football team experienced “unusual success” going undefeated including a 6-0 victory over Saint Joseph’s Prep, probably their only opponent current readers would recognize. In addition, there is a full written account of each game. The basketball team, all six of them shown in the team picture, are referred to as “Catholic Champions” having won ten of fifteen games.
Finally, the 1923 book is the first to be called The Blue and Gold and is formatted to look more or less the way yearbooks have looked ever since. Class pictures now include the names of each student captioned below the photo, and the commercial seniors have been moved to the front of the book. Team pictures are also captioned with the names of each player, and there is a photo introducing the “sports” section accompanied by a photograph of the four senior captains of each team, football, baseball, basketball, and track.
There is no 1919 version of the yearbook either because it is lost or it was not produced, but the 1920 edition is called The Triangle. The class of 1919 was thirty strong and contained much of the same kinds of writings found in the 1918 book: a class prophecy, full biographies of each senior, and coverage of sports which now include baseball. But for the first time, the focus also includes the other class years.
The 1922 book is called The Comet, and includes a dedication page to Brother G. Edward. Sports are again a subject of interest, and now track is included in the book. By this time, all classes are included, albeit in a somewhat secondary way, and regular features such as class prophecies, editorials, and poems have become regular features.
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A CENTURY OF YEARBOOKS: 100 YEARS OF LA SALLE HISTORY
By the mid-twenties, the yearbook format has finally become fairly wellestablished. The 1926 book contains what is likely the first color picture on page 47, a drawing of a ship on the class history page. The other books from the “roaring twenties” very much reflect their times. There are more visuals, and articles are written with the humor and confidence reflective of the time before the Great Depression. Something that seems odd to those of us who graduated after World War II are the references to La Salle as “La Salle Prep,” a name which obviously didn’t stick but seems to have been in fairly common usage in the 20s and 30s. By the 1930s the campus had moved from Girard Avenue to 20th and Olney and the new, more spacious campus allowed for larger graduating classes. Sports have expanded to include golf and tennis, and the basketball team is being led by legendary coach, Charles “Obie” O’Brien.
The yearbooks from the 1940s show a great degree of variety in the cover design and for the first time, the individual portraits of the class of 1940 show each young man wearing formal attire. Yearbooks from the 40s are much more pictorial and begin to include some action shots of both sports and activities. Books from this era also reflect their time. For example, the 1943 book has a photograph of some of its young graduates in military uniforms reflective of World War II service branches which many would join as soon as they graduated. Sports coverage is much more detailed, and bowling is a varsity sport. Class pictures show underclassmen by homeroom and graduating classes have grown to over one hundred young men. The format for the annuals remains fairly consistent throughout the 1950s. The yearbooks become larger with more pages and more pictures, and by 1959 there is some anticipation about what will soon be the move from the La Salle College campus to the school’s present location on Cheltenham Avenue. The 1960 yearbook, the last issued from 20th and Olney, actually has a photo of the old high school building, doubtless meant as a nostalgic
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CURRENTLY, EXCEPT FOR SEVEN EDITIONS ENUMERATED BELOW, ALL OF THE YEARBOOKS PRODUCED SINCE 1918 ARE AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING AT THE LA SALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL WEBSITE. But we are still actively looking for a number of books that we don’t have in order to complete the collection. If you know of the whereabouts of any of the books listed below, contact Chris Carabello ’82 at carabello@lschs.org or Dr. Joseph D’Angelo ’63 at dangeloj27@verizon.net. The books we don’t have at all and are looking for either as hard copies for the archive or to borrow so they can be digitally scanned are: 1919, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, and 1935. We’d also love to have hard copies of 1918, 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923, which we have in digital format only. These books were graciously lent to us for scanning by Brother Joseph Grabenstein, FSC who had them in the La Salle University Christian Brothers’ Archive, but we’d love to have hard copies of these books too. TAKE A LOOK THROUGH THOSE ATTICS AND BASEMENTS AND RUMMAGE THROUGH THOSE YARD SALES. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT MIGHT TURN UP.
farewell to the old campus. The 1961 editors actually refer to their class as “The First Graduating Class of the New La Salle High School.” And the 1963 yearbook is subtitled as “The Centennial Graduating Class,” and it is the last class to have spent any time at 20th and Olney.
The 2000s have seen graduating classes of 240 to 250 or more, a number that exceeds what was once the entire enrollment of the school. Every student is in the yearbook in full color, and most of the once black and white photographs are in color.
By the 1970s the staid blue or white covers are often being replaced by wilder more graphic designs, and by 1972, senior class portraits are casual rather than formal, likely a reflection of a more casual way of dressing in the general population and the end of the school’s “coat and tie” dress code that wasn’t reinstated as a “shirt and tie” code until 1988. As you peruse the faculty portraits, you also can’t help but notice that more faculty are lay people, and graduating classes over 200 are the norm.
Looking to the future, yearbook annuals are likely here to stay in some form or another. They provide a unique visual and written history of the school. What is of most interest is that in viewing the photographs and reading what the young men who went to La Salle wrote seventy or eighty or even a hundred years ago, we somehow see a link that ties all La Salle graduates together. The hair or clothing styles may have changed; the formats of the books themselves may have changed; the sizes of the classes may have changed. But the history and spirit of La Salle remains pretty much the same.
The 1980’s and 1990’s, covers reflect an individuality that suggest the theme of each yearbook but harkens back to a more traditional look, usually blue and gold basic design. With each passing year of the decade, there is less writing, and the books are more pictorial. And every student has a portrait in the yearbook.
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HALL OF ATHLETICS INDUCTION September 16, 2018 The 7th Annual Hall of Athletics Induction was held on Sunday, September 16, 2018 and featured the induction of three athletes: Keith Conlin ’91, Steve Duncheskie ’94, and Thomas McLaughlin ’94; two coaches: Dave Diehl ’55 and Drew Gordon; and one team/program: Cross Country and Track and Field 1997-98.
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DEDICATION OF FLANNERY FIELD AND DEVINE TRACK October 10, 2018
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AUCTION – MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET November 3, 2018
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Dinner Dance “Mad About La Salle” February 9, 2019 The annual Dinner Dance was held on Saturday, February 9, 2019 at Blue Bell Country Club and was aptly themed “Mad About La Salle” and featured clothing and accessories appearing in Mad Men, the American period television series that aired for seven seasons on AMC and was set in the 1960s. Pam and Gregg Melinson ’82 chaired the event, which was underwritten by the Hansen Charitable
Foundation. The initial De La Salle Award was presented to the Hansen Family in recognition of the support the family has given to La Salle for almost fifty years. Brother James Butler, FSC presented the award to Bud Hansen IV ’86 accepted the award on behalf of his family. A committee consisting of over 20 couples help to organize the event.
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COMMUNION BREAKFAST AND HALL OF FAME INDUCTION March 3, 2019 The Alumni Association at La Salle College High School held their annual Communion Breakfast and Hall of Fame Induction on Sunday, March 3, 2019. The day began with Mass, which was celebrated by Reverend Francis Danielski, O. Praem ’67 and Deacon John Mischler ’82. At the conclusion of Mass, the William J. Whelan ’55 Alumni Service Award was presented to William F. Ernst III ’81. Brother James Butler, FSC awarded Honorary Diplomas to two long-time Principals,
Brother Edward Gallagher, FSC and Brother Andrew Bartley, FSC, who helped to shape La Salle College High School in the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Following breakfast, Richard D. DiBella ’71 and Gregg R. Melinson, Esq. ’82 were inducted into the La Salle College High School Hall of Fame. Brother James Butler, FSC, President of La Salle College High School, and D. Scott Porreca ’86, President of the Alumni Association, presided over the ceremonies and presented the awards.
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1940s ALBERT PEZZILLO ’46 celebrated his 90th birthday on October 23, 2018. JOSEPH PETTINEO, SR. ’49 has 12 greatgrandchildren in addition to 12 grandchildren.
1950s JAY DUNPHY ’54 writes that his son Kevin ’83 is a Ford Dealer, grandson Tyler Dunphy is a new attorney, and grandson Sean Brogan ’19 is a senior (Class of 2019) at La Salle College High School. GERALD J. GRIFFIN, JR. ’54 is still searching for The Fountain of Youth. RICHARD PRENDERGAST ’56 writes that he and his wife Janie became great-grandparents Jenjamin James Grable plus “Scarlett” Jane Vaughan. He also writes that his grandson Charles Radomicki is a sophomore at La Salle College High School (Class of 20121). JACK SCHMIDT ’56 and fellow classmate, Ed Rice ’56, celebrated their 80th birthdays cruising the Panama Canal and visiting South America, Costa Rica, and the Grand Canyon.
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TOM MURPHY ’57 has led an interesting life since his graduation from La Salle College High School in 1957. He went on to La Salle College, served three years in the army, and graduated from the Russian program at what was then the U.S. Army Language School in Monterey, CA. After the army, he completed a semester in La Salle’s program at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland where he received a Diploma from the Institute for East European Studies. He worked for six months for IBM in center city Philadelphia while waiting for security clearance to join the CIA and served for almost twenty-six years in the Central Intelligence Agency. Fourteen of those years were spent overseas in Eastern Europe (during the Cold War), Western Europe, Africa and Latin America. After retirement from the CIA, he worked on contract for another ten years and then began to write fiction. Drawing on personal experiences, he authored two spy novels that were well received. His novel Edge of Allegiance is considered “insider” spy fiction. The novel is the fictional postmortem of a failed Cold-War HUMINT operation that the author calls the Bagatelle case. The cut line for the novel is “a twisting slide down the espionage rabbit-hole with a plot as intricately wired as a Cold War missile.” His second espionage novel, Lie Not in Wait, is a sequel to Edge of Allegiance. He has also written a literary novel where the main character attends La Salle High in the early part of the 20th Century. He goes on to fight in the French army in The Great War (WWI), stays on in Paris for several years where he meets Hemingway, Picasso, Gertrude Stein, among others and finally comes home in 1922. HARRY WOODCOCK, PHD ’58 is retired from Philadelphia University.
The Goal of the Annual Fund is to create opportunity for qualified students who may not necessarily have the means to experience a Lasallian Education. To Learn more on how you can support the De La Salle Annual Fund, please contact Brett Foley, Director of Annual Giving at (215) 402-4812 or FoleyB@lschs.org
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1960s JOSEPH MCDONNELL ’62 is Catholic Chaplain at Napa State Hospital in California.
JOE HARTNETT ’69 along with Bob Ellis ’68, Paul Laskow ’66, Mike Fitzgibbons ’67 – the “Old Man Four Champs” – participated in the Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. THE CLASS OF 1969 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
ANTHONY LE STORTI ’63 is the Lead Instructor in the Leadership Dynamics Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
50-YEAR REUNION
JOSEPH YANNESSA ’63 is still working as a Federal Special Investigator and recently elected to a 10th two-year term as Chariman of the Onslow County NC Crime Stoppers Board of Directors.
JOSEPH PASCUZZO, DO ’69 is currently Deputy State Air Surgeon for California Air National Guard.
SEAN MCGRAW MCGROARTY ’65 recently performed in the feature film “Turkey Bowl”, the USA series “Queen of the South” and the AMC series “Better Call Saul”. EUGENE CATTIE ’66 is finally retired and enjoying his grandchildren in Virginia. LEN SLOANE ’66 was course planner and presenter, along with Jim Haggerty ’72, at the 36th Annual Auto Law Seminar on behalf of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. Len has authored the leading treatise on automobile insurance law in Pennsylvania. He is a shareholder in the Law Firm of Eckell, Sparks, Levy, Auerbach, Monte, Sloane, Matthew & Auslander, PC, in Media and West Chester. TONY LOPRESTI ’67 successfully developed a nonverbal theatrical event with young artists in Senegal – theme from Laudato Si. CAPT JOHN B. MCGILL, USN(RET.) ’67 came out of retirement to work with his friends at KadeyKrogen Yachts. JAKE WHALEN ’67 was appointed to the Board of Directors for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. DENNIS HIGGINS ’68 is happily retired in the Atlanta area.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH GRADUATION ON MAY 30 – JUNE 1, 2019
JOE ZAISS ’69 is looking forward to his 50th Year Graduation Celebration.
1970s JAMES HACKNEY ’70 is looking forward to his fifth mission trip to Canada next year to teach First Nation children about Jesus. FREDERICK HOECK ’70 traveled to the Myan Ruins, Kenya, Tanzania and Cuba last year. MICHAEL F. DUNN, ESQ. ’71 recently received an award from the Montgomery County Bar Association for serving three years on the Bar Association Board of Directors. Since 2104, he has been Co-Chairman of the Montgomery County Bar Association’s Criminal Defense Committee. GREG KOCHANOWICZ ’72 has released a new “Sultry Dog” album: http://store.cdbaby.com/cd/ sultrydogs MATTHEW MULLEN ’72 says grand-parenting is a blast! Matt also started coaching a middle school golf team. MARK SUTTON ’72 began a job as Director of Sales at the Candlewood Suites Hotel in Horsham, PA.
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THOMAS J. KEATING ’73 the President at Cedar Rapids Xavier High School and a former state championship coach at Dubuque Wahlert, will become the Executive Director of the Iowa High School Athletic Association on July 1, 2019. The IHSAA named the former Dubuque Wahlert state champion volleyball coach and athletic director as the successor to the retiring Alan Beste. Keating served on its Board of Control from 2008 through 2018 and acted as chairperson in 2014-15. Keating graduated from Simpson College in Indianola, IA, began his career as a teacher and coach at Maxwell High School in 1977 and moved to Dubuque three years later. Under his guidance, Wahlert won 11 state volleyball championships. Keating moved to Xavier as Principal in 2004 and shifted roles to President last summer. He will hold the top leadership position in an organization that oversees 11 interscholastic sports. It’s an organization that has drawn criticism, most notably for a television contract that prevents parts of Iowa from viewing state tournaments. GEORGE T. MAGNATTA, ESQ. ’73 was appointed Chair of the Business and Finance Department at Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr and Member of the Executive Committee at Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr. KEVIN RODDEN ’73 now has two grandsons: Tyler, born October 24, 2014 and Jayson, born June 9, 2016. THE CLASS OF 1974 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
45-YEAR REUNION
AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019. RONALD J. TOMASSO, AIA ’74 has been elevated to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects. EDWARD G. STAFFORD ’75 recently retired from the U.S. Foreign Service and is enjoying commenting on U.S. Relations with Turkey in ahvalnews.com MICHAEL DUBYK ’78 is currently the Vice Chair of Bishop McDevitt’s Board of Trustees JOSEPH SIMONE ’79 has been enjoying life in Hong Kong for the last 30 years as a lawyer with Simone IP Services (SIPS), which focuses mainly on China.
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AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019. HERMAN J. WEINRICH, ESQ. ’79 has retired from the practice of law after 31 rewarding and successful years with Timoney Knox LLP of Fort Washington, PA. Herman is not retiring from full time as he has returned to his roots as the current owner and operator of his family’s business, Weinrich’s Bakery of Willow Grove, PA. Weinrich’s Bakery is celebrating 100 years in business in 2019. SCOTT H. WOLPERT, ESQ. ’84 has been with Timoney Knox since 1992 and was elected Managing Partner of the firm effective July 1, 2018. His practice focuses in the area special education and school law, students’ rights, and employment law. He regularly handles special education administrative hearings and civil litigation in state and federal court and has extensive experience in handling legal issues involving students and schools, including claims related to special education, bullying, harassment, sexual abuse, physical abuse, compliance with federal or state laws which protect students, and discrimination occurring in schools. Mr. Wolpert represents parties in all aspects of employee relations, including the litigation of employment-based claims, particularly wage and hour claims. He was lead attorney on a multi-million-dollar class action suit in which he represented employees that resulted in a $4.1 million court-approved settlement of overtime compensation to class members. He is also a frequent speaker in his areas of practice. He holds a degree in political science from Ursinus College, where he was a Dean’s List student and received the Trucksess Prize for the study of law. Mr. Wolpert earned his law degree from the University of Richmond School of Law. Active in many civic and charitable organizations, Mr. Wolpert served as a mock trial coach through the Pennsylvania Bar Association between 1998 and 2009. He is a past president of the La Salle College High School Alumni Association and is a past member of the Board of Advisors of the Norwood-Fontbonne Academy. Mr. Wolpert currently serves on the Board of Directors of Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of Pennsylvania, a non-profit organization that provides care management for persons with disabilities. Mr. Wolpert also currently serves on the Maxwell Football Club’s Board of Directors and he is a Division 1 NCAA football official. Before joining Timoney Knox, he was a law clerk for The Honorable Bernard A. Moore in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
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Joseph L. Marchese, the former principal of La Salle College High School, passed away on October 23, 2018 after a long battle with MSA. Predeceased by his parents, Leo and Connie. Joe is survived by his wife, Dorothy; children, Elizabeth Rebmann, Lindsay (Omar) Ali, Emily (Quinault Jean) Marchese, Daniel (fiance, Rachel Safirstein) Marchese; grandchildren, Ryan, Mason, Raegan and Maddox. Joe Marchese, who served for many years as a teacher, administrator, and state championship basketball coach at McQuaid Jesuit High School in Rochester, NY, became principal of La Salle College High School in July of 2005. His service in this role overlapped exactly with that of Brother President Richard Kestler, FSC ’60. They both retired from these positions in June of 2012, at which time Joe returned to Rochester to be close to his family. His wife Dorothy served as a faculty member in the David Program during most of his years as principal.
1980s JOHN BOREK, PHD ’80, received his doctorate in Public Policy and Administration last year. He left government service and now teaches to Grand Canyon University. JOHN A. DUFFY ’81 married Betsy Brubaker in 2018. ROBERT O’NEILL, JR ’83 was promoted to the Alex Theatre’s Director of Facilities and Safety in July 2018. The Alex Theatre is located in Glendale, CA. THE CLASS OF 1984 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
35-YEAR REUNION
AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019. EDWARD WENTZ ’88 has a son, Edward J. Wentz, who is a freshman (Class of 2022) at La Salle College High School. He is a third generation Explorer.
BOYD KELLY ’93 has a son, Andrew, who is a freshman (Class of 2022) at La Salle College High School. KEVIN MCMAHON ’93 writes that he and his wife Meredith moved to Harleysville two years ago with their two sons, Brendan, 11 and Peter, 9. Meredith teaches in the Souderton School District. Kevin is employed by Hamilton Lane as VP of Creative Services. THE CLASS OF 1994 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
25-YEAR REUNION
AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019. WILLIAM T. BELL ’94 has been appointed Director of the Philadelphia District Office of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
THE CLASS OF 1989 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
ROBERT S. DUSZAK, OD ’94 is an attending Optometrist with The Department of Veterans Affairs at the Wilmington, DE Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019.
JEFFREY KEMM ’94 has been a Firefighter for 12 years. He is happily married with three beautiful girls.
BERNARD HAMBLIN ’III ’89 writes that he is a disabled combat veteran of the 82nd Airborne Division. During his career he was a driver on the Staff of MGen Richard Tragemann, USA(Ret.) ’60.
F. GREG KEVANE ’96 just opened his 3rd Goldfish Swim School in Philadelphia area – locations in Fort Washington, PA and Oaks, PA along with Mount Laurel, NJ.
30-YEAR REUNION
1990s ANDREW COTTONE, PHD ’92 who is Founder and President of Adesis Inc. was the 2018 Holroyd Award Recipient at La Salle University for his significant contributions in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals and bio-pharmaceuticals. Cottone has also made a positive impact on society through his professional and scholarly contributions in science, which reflect a commitment to Lasallian values.
HONORABLE MARC A. ALFARANO ’98 is a judge for the Montgomery County Magisterial District 38-1-01 in Pennsylvania. Alfarano won the seat in the general election on November 7, 2017 by defeating Michael Altieri. Alfarano is one of the youngest magistrates to be elected in Montgomery County. Judges of the Pennsylvania Magisterial Districts are selected in partisan elections. They serve a six-year term and, after their initial term, magistrates must run for new terms in contested races. JOHN PAUL HORSTMANN ’98 pitched and created the television show Southern Charm, as well as the new series Southern Charm: New Orleans non Bravo. In addition, he is editing a documentary on the golden era of MTV, which will be shown on A&E.
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THE CLASS OF 1999 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
20-YEAR REUNION
AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019.
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MICHAEL P. ROCHE ’08 teaches Social Studies at Archbishop Wood High School and continues to give back to the La Salle community as an ice hockey coach for the past six years. THE CLASS OF 2009 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
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10-YEAR REUNION
THE CLASS OF 2004 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
15-YEAR REUNION AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019. SEAN MCLAUGHLIN ’06 married Kelly Marie Rein on October 19, 2018 at Saint Peter Roman Catholic Church in Merchantville, NJ. Others in attendance included Pat Playdon ’06, Joe Hughes ’06, Dave Yusavitz ’06, and his brother, Matt McLaughlin ’20. MARK BREEN ’07 and Abby Smith were wed at the Christian Royer House in Westminster, MD on September 15, 2018. Father James St. George performed the ceremony. KELLY LOMBARD ’07 is attending University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School’s MBA Program following six years of active duty as member of US Naval Special Operations Forces. TIM LAPOWSKY ’08 was recently married. J.J. Houldin ’08 and Frank Cassidy ’08 were in the wedding party. SEAN MONTGOMERY ’08 exhibited his art at the opening of the University of the Arts Graduate Art Exhibition held in the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery in center city Philadelphia. His work celebrates the culmination of his graduate studies at the University of the Arts.
AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019. MICHAEL W. CASSIDY ’09 and Eugenia Finizio were married on February 16, 2019 in Pittburgh, PA.
2010s KEVIN HARVEY, MD ’10 graduated from The Boonshoft School of Medicine at Wright State University. He is doing an Emergency Medicine Residency at Reading Hospital/Tower Health. WILLIAM BEGLEY ’10 is attending Harvard Business School to earn his MBA. Prior to Harvard, Will had been working in Real Estate Acquisitions at Ares Management in their New York office. TYLER DUNPHY ’11 became an attorney as a graduate of both the College of William & Mary and Penn State Law School. JOSEPH HARVEY, RN, BSN ’11 is an Oncology Nurse at Jefferson Hospital-Abington. R.J. NAPOLITANO ’13 and fellow Penn State alum, Kody Amburgey, quit their jobs on Wall Street last summer and moved to Los Angeles with big aspirations, unrelenting hustle, and an idea to make transportation more accessible. Napolitano, who graduated Penn State Smeal College of Business Smeal in 2017, left the comforts of investment banking to take a chance and found Transfr, a car-sharing service where users park their cars for free at airport lots and earn money when others rent them. Transfr pays the parking fees for the days a car isn’t being rented. When a car is rented, renters pay a flat rate depending on vehicle class that’s updated weekly. The actual owner of the car then gets a standard portion of the rate regardless of vehicle age or type.
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CLASS OF 2011 Twelve members of the Class of 2011 played together in a golf tournament in Myrtle Beach, SC: Chris Dearolf, Tom Jaquay, Frank Trocino, Ryan Abbott, Ben Giaimo, Ben Hankinson, DJ DeBrakeleer, Anthony Caporizzo, Sean Sweeney, Tyler Dunphy, Dalton Becker.
Because Transfr only partners with lots and doesn’t actually own any, the service is able to minimize overhead costs and provide cheaper rates than traditional car rentals like Enterprise and Hertz. Compared to its best-known competitor Getaround, Transfr rents cars in a way that’s even more hands-off for users. The current flat rate for economy cars sits at $29 per day, while the daily rate for an SUV, pick-up truck, or luxury vehicle is $49. Additionally, there are no added fees for collision protection or for renters younger than 25. The company’s website estimates car owners earn about $10 a day when their vehicles are in use and can save as much as $240 by parking their cars with Transfr during an eight-day trip. The idea behind Transfr spawned from an experience Napolitano had shortly after graduating. While living in New York City, where public transportation can get you seemingly anywhere pretty efficiently, there was no need for him to have a car. However, when he wanted to visit his girlfriend, who was still a student at Penn State, he had no easy way of getting to State College. “I remember saying to Kody, ’Wouldn’t it be great if I could own a vehicle and someone could manage it for me and rent it out?’” Napolitano said. “We had always talked about different startup ideas and being able to solve problems for people. And then we finally found one that we thought could make a difference.” At the time, Napolitano had been considering ways to bring in extra money through a side hustle. As an analyst with Goldman Sachs, he didn’t have time to do something off-hours like drive for Uber. Instead, he was looking for an additional way to bring in a passive income. That, coupled with the challenge of traveling to State College, got Napolitano thinking. Soon, they were trading their secure incomes and offices in towers named after their employers to work out of their apartments between 80 and 125 hours per week and not take a paycheck while bringing their idea to life. It was a complete 180 from their lives in New York, but within four months, Transfr was open for business at LAX’s WallyPark Premier Garage. Instead of a suit, Napolitano now wears a variety of hats. As the only two full-time employees, any given day can include updating investor pitch decks, planning marketing campaigns, improving projection models, and cold-calling potential customers.
Napolitano’s finance backgrounds may have paved the way for them to set up shop at LAX and in the coming months, two additional airports. But what they needed most to make Transfr and their bold move across the country work was the ability to trust their guts and each other. “Anytime you’re under taking something like this and leaving a paycheck behind for something that might not work out, it’s gonna be scary and is going to take a leap of faith,” Napolitano said. “But we’ve always believed in the business and in each other and that’s made everything so much more palatable.” THE CLASS OF 2014 WILL CELEBRATE ITS
5-YEAR REUNION
AT THE GRAND REUNION ON APRIL 28, 2019. CHRISTOPHER JASTRZEMBSKI ’14 was recently hired full time at ESPN working on shows such as “In The Crease” (hockey) and “Max on Boxing” (boxing), along with assisting college lacrosse production. Chris also helped produce the ESPNU special “Utah Lacrosse: Building A Program,” that premiered in March. NICHOLAS CARDAMONE ’17 is a student at the University of Pittsburgh and ran in the Philadelphia Marathon on November 18, 2018, placing 49th out of 30,000 runners. It was his first marathon and he finished in a time of 2 hours and 37 minutes, which placed him first in his age group and qualified him for the Boston Marathon. Nick was on the track and cross country teams at La Salle and owes his passion and dedication to running to Coach Greg Bielecki. RYAN J. BAKER ’18 is a freshman at the University of Michigan, majoring in Computer Science in the College of Engineering. He achieved University Honors his first term. JACK GIMPEL ’18 is in the BFA Musical Theatre Program at Rider University
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BIRTHS AND DEATHS AS OF MARCH 15, 2019 WE WELCOME
FRANK J. COLL ’62
MARK ALFARANO ’98 and his wife, Emily, welcomed a daughter, Allegra, in December of 2018.
VINCENT J. KRAFT ’65
JOHN BORING III ’00 and his wife, Liz, welcomed their third child, John Paul Joseph Boring, on December 10, 2018.
JAMES J. COONEY, JR. ’65 TIMOTHY J. FOLEY ’66, father of T.J. ’06, Michael ’10, and Kevin ’10; brother of John ’65, Daniel ’68, Gerard ’74, Patrick ’76, and Michael ’78. FRANK J. PREIS II ’69, brother of Stephen ’71.
PHILIP DIANTONIO ’03 and his wife Ania welcomed a son, Philip Stefan, on August 28, 2018.
GILBERT R. SLEUTARIS ’69 LOUIS J. COSTAR ’73
P. JAMIE MCCARTHY IV ’05 and his wife, Mara, welcomed a daughter, Charlotte Julia, on September 2, 2017.
WILLIAM J. KANE, ESQ. ’73 MARK J. BOJANOWSKI ’77
CONNOR TATLOW ’06 and his wife, Catherine, welcomed daughter, Eloise Thien Tatlow, on January 3, 2019.
THOMAS J. MULVIHILL ’77 NEIL J. FITZPATRICK ’81, father of Timothy ’18.
MATTHEW PAUL ’07 and his wife, Lauren, welcomed a daughter, Eloise, on January 23, 2018.
JOSEPH WEBSTER ’83, brother of James ’70 and Michael ’73.
FACULTY MEMBER MARK NORMAN and his wife, Heather, welcomed a daughter, Margaret, on September 28, 2019.
STEFAN GIGLIOTTI ’09, brother of Nicholas ’04 and Jason ’06.
FACULTY MEMBER KEVIN WHITNEY and his wife, Pam, welcomed a daughter, Maeve, on December 7, 2018.
WILLAM PERRY ADDISON, grandfather of Evan ’18 and Liam ’22 Addison.
RALPH CARTWRIGHT ’42
JAMES A. AGNEW, JR., grandfather of Sean ’03, Christopher ’06, Gregory ’17, Shane ’19, and Thomas ’20 and Brendan ’22 Agnew.
COL. ROBERT S. FORMICA, SR., USA (RET.) ’42
SISTER KATHLEEN BRABSON, SSJ, President of
REVEREND ROBERT BREEN ’45, brother of Owen ’39(Dec’d); uncle of Owen III ’65, Michael ’72 (faculty member Lastenia Breen), Christopher ’78, and Robert ’80(Dec’d); great uncle of Patrick BreenLopez ’00, Mark Breen-Lopez ’07, Kevin Breen ’10, and Owen Breen ’19.
Mount Saint Joseph Academy; aunt of Francis Thomas Lyons ’05; sister-in-law of former faculty member Jeanne Holt Brabson.
ARTHUR A. BUBEN ’48, brother of Alvin ’42(Dec’d.) and Arnold ’59(Dec’d.). THEODORE M. ROGERS, JR. ’48, grandfather of Martin Manion ’19.
THOMAS F. CUNNANE, father of Patrick Cunnane ’90.
DAVID M. GRAHAM ’51
AGNES DANELLA, mother of William ’76, John ’78, Joseph ’80, and Paul ’88 Danella and John Schanne ’90; grandmother of Patrick Higgins ’10. REGINA L. DANIEL, mother of Frank ’63, Jim ’66, Bob ’68 and J. Christopher ’76, and Larry ’80; sister of Martin Luff, Jr. ’54.
FRANCIS P. McHUGH ’54 JAMES J. MULLIN ’54, brother of Paul ’49. JOHN L. LANGAN ’55 MATTHEW F. MAZZA ’55, father of Mrs. Patrice Lynch (Brian); grandfather of Brian ’11 and Mark ’13 Lynch. THOMAS J. WARD, SR. ’56, father of Thomas ’79, Christopher ’83, Clifford ’85 and Douglas ’87. EDWARD J. KILFEATHER ’57, brother of Richard J. Kilfeather ’60. RAYMOND J. WALSH ’58 LAWRENCE G. LEESE ’59, brother of Kenneth ’57 and Michael ’63. JOSEPH P. McNICHOL, JR. ’59, father of Joseph III ’91; brother of Stephen ’65; uncle of Daniel L. ’95, Kevin M. ’99, and Timothy J. ’97(Dec’d.) McNichol.
H. WILLIAM LOESCH, grandfather of Griffin Steinman ’21. KIMBERLY A. MANCINI, wife of H. Terrence ’78. LUCY MASTRONARDO, mother of Joseph ’66 and John ’73; grandmother of Joseph ’00 and John ’13 Mastronardo. WILLIAM W. MATTHEWS, JR., father of William ’86; grandfather of William ’16, Christopher ’19, and Zachary ’22. JOHN J. McCLOSKEY, father of John ’62, James ’64 and Daniel ’81; grandfather of Christopher Kane ’97 and William McCloskey ’04. JOSEPH F. McFADDEN, father of Joseph McFadden ’84. MARGARET McNALLY, grandmother of Michael McNally ’11.
JOSEPH W. O’BRIEN, SR., father of Vincent O’Brien ’81. EMILY B. PANNEPACKER, mother of Vincent ’57 and Robert ’66; grandmother of Robert Pannepacker ’92 and Charles (Chip) McKeaney ’86(Dec’d); great-grandmother of Paul Kass ’23. JOHN P. PREGO, father of John P. Prego II ’00 JOSEPH H. PUTRO, father of Christopher ’87 and David ’90. NANCY B. REILLY, mother of Michael ’18 and Peter ’22. ROBERT N. SELF, SR., grandfather of Ian Self ’19. JEANNE SHEILS, mother of staff member Maura Diehl (Dan ’85); grandmother of Sean ’17 and Shea ’19 Diehl.
JOSEPH S. DE BOW, SR., father of Joseph De Bow, Jr. ’67.
MARY ANN T. SIMPSON, mother of Jonathan Simpson ’96.
NICHOLAS J. DEMA, grandfather of Nicholas Dema III ’11.
NAZARETH SOOKIASIAN, father of James ’73.
JOAN K. DERHAM, mother of John ’76, James ’80, and Joseph ’85. REGINA ANN DONOVAN, grandmother of Michael ’06 and Stephen ’10 Donovan and James ’03, Brian ’06, Daniel ’08, and Matthew ’15 Sacchetta. FRANK J. DEPMAN, father of Stanley ’74, John ’85, and Thomas ’87; grandfather of Francis ’17. MICHAEL T. DOUGHERTY, father of Robert “Mo” Dougherty ’12(Dec’d).
RONALD G. EVANS, father of Ronald K. (Kyle) ’90; grandfather of Bryce ’20 and Chase ’22 Evans.
CHARLES J. “CHIC” SAILE ’60
KATHY FITZGERALD, mother of Brian ’90.
VICTOR GITTENS ’61
ANGELA L. FOLEY, grandmother of James DeCarlo ’11, Terrence J. Foley ’11, James T. Foley ’14, Patrick ’17, Liam’19 and Owen ’22 Tatlonghari, and Timothy Bauer ’22.
CARL JOSEPH SCHWAB, JR. ’61
NANCY M. KIRK, grandmother of Brian Kirk ’20.
RACHEL L. “BABS” O’DONNELL, mother of Jeffrey O’Donnell ’78 and Craig O’Donnell ’80; grandmother of Kevin O’Donnell ’13.
GEORGE H. BITTNER ’51
MICHAEL J. McCARRIE, III ’54
THOMAS J. JONES, grandfather of Augustine (Auggie) ’20 and Thomas ’21 Davidson.
MARY LOUISE BURGOYNE, mother of James Burgoyne ’78; grandmother of Seamus Gibbons ’16.
PATRICIA COSTELLO, sister of longtime La Salle Baseball Coach John Costello.
DAVID G. CAMPBELL, PHD ’53, brother of Edward Campbell ’62.
ELIZABETH HALPIN, grandmother of Charles’ 95 and Christopher ’96 Halpin.
GERALD F. MEISTER, grandfather of Richard Meister ’21.
S. LEE MORTON ’50
ROBERT F. O’NEILL ’51, father of Robert, Jr. ’83.
ELAINE GROSSI, grandmother of Samuel ’18, Luke ’21, and Timothy ’22 Grossi.
DONALD R. BRAUN, SR., grandfather of John Braun ’16.
MARY MARGARET COOKSON, mother of John Cookson, Jr. ’66.
RICHARD M. CONNOLLY ’50, father of Richard M. Connolly ’79(Dec’d.).
VINCENT GREEN, grandfather of Sean Crane ’10.
SISTER PAULINE “POLLY” McSHAIN, SHCJ, daughter of John McShain ’15.
LOUIS J. COLOMBO, grandfather of James McCabe ’05 and Daniel Spinelli ’14.
BROTHER ANTHONY BAIRD, FSC ’50, brother of Terence Baird ’54 and Lawrence Baird ’59.
KATHLEEN GOMEZ, mother of Raymond ’22 and William ’22 Gomez.
JOHN JOE BRADY, grandfather of Seamus MacCrory ’10 and staff member Colin MacCrory ’13.
GEROGE J. CAPALDI, father of John Capaldi ’84 and Robert Capaldi ’87(Dec’d).
MICHAEL J. CAREY, SR. ’50, father of Michael ’78 and Devlin ’10
LIBERO “LEE” GARDELLA, grandfather of Mark Gardella ’19.
ALICIA ARIZIN STERLING, daughter of Paul Arizin ’46(Dec’d). JOSEPHINE M. STEWART, mother of Jerry Stewart, Esq. ’88. DOROTHY SUCHY, wife of Edward ’47(Dec’d); mother of Edward ’74, John ’75, Thomas ’81, and Robert ’83; grandmother of Daniel Hardcastle ’15. GENEVIEVE C. “JEAN” SWEENEY, mother of Janet McBride; grandmother of Todd ’03 and Scott ’05 McBride. GEORGE TOMLINSON, grandfather of Michael ’06 and Stephen ’10 Donovan and David ’13 and Daniel ’17 Hunt. MARY HUDOME WYNNE, mother of Andrew Wynne ’18. MARGARET M. ZOELTSCH, mother-in-law of former faculty member Nancy Zoeltsch; grandmother of Zachary Zoeltsch ’95
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David T. Diehl ’55
SCHOLARSHIP GOLF OUTING Monday, June 17, 2019 WHITEMARSH VALLEY COUNTRY CLUB Lafayette Hill, PA 19444 TWO SHOTGUN STARTS Morning and Afternoon
Whitemarsh Country Club dates back to 1908. Over the years, it has hosted several Philadelphia Classics and Philadelphia Amateur Championships. With well-groomed fairways and greens, Whitemarsh Valley Country Club offers challenging play for golfers of every skill level. For information and sponsorship opportunities, please contact The Office Of Institutional Advancement at (215) 402-4808 or alumni@lschs.org
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HALL OF ATHLETICS IN SEPTEMBER OF 2012, LA SALLE COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL INDUCTED THE INAUGURAL CLASS INTO ITS HALL OF ATHLETICS IN AN EFFORT TO HONOR ATHLETIC LEGENDS AT THE SCHOOL.
THE CLASS OF 2019 WILL BE HONORED AT AN INDUCTION CEREMONY THAT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE FALL OF 2019 IN CONJUNCTION WITH HOMECOMING WEEKEND. Alumni, parents, faculty, students, and friends of La Salle College High School can nominate individual athletes, teams, and leaders (coaches, moderators, athletic directors). The Hall of Athletics Selection Committee will review all nominations solely on accomplishments and performances at La Salle College High School. Accolades achieved following
high school or while not representing La Salle College High School will not be considered. Individual athletes must have graduated at least ten years ago (prior to 2009 for this nominating class) and coaches must have been retired from active coaching for at least one year. The deadline for all nominations is May 3, 2019. An announcement regarding the initial inductees will be made in early June and the inductees will be formally presented in the Summer 2019 issue of the Explorer as well as on the school’s website.
NOMINATIONS CAN BE SUBMITTED ONLINE AT: WWW.LSCHS.ORG/HOA