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Sculpture Class Celebrates Women’s History Month
The Dinner Party is a feminist installation art piece created by artist Judy Chicago. The La Salle sculpture classes analyzed Chicago’s work, and designed their own place settings for the most influential women in their lives to celebrate Women’s History Month which was displayed in the Dining Hall throughout March. Judy Chicago’s original sculpture is a triangular table that has 39 place settings for mythical and historical women figures. Each place setting has feminine forms depicted on each plate, and symbols that represent each individual figure.
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Reality Fair
On Wednesday, March 23rd the Sophomore Class participated in La Salle's first ever Reality Fair during the Mentor period. What’s a Reality fair? The purpose of the Reality Fair is for students to see the connection between career and potential earnings/lifestyle. Basically, it’s a game meant to help students understand the cost of living and the choices they will make in adulthood. Sophomores were randomly given a career profile and salary. In the dining hall, students rotated through six stations that included things like real estate, bills, car sales, groceries, and entertainment, to make their purchases and update their budget...
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Ethan Sandoval Wins $5K National Honor Society Scholarship
The National Honor Society (NHS) is excited to announce that Ethan Sandoval, a senior at La Salle High School from Pasadena, California, has been selected as a finalist and winner of a $5,625 NHS Scholarship. Ethan was chosen from nearly 10,000 applicants. The NHS Scholarship program is supported by NHS’s parent organization, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP). Ethan Sandoval lives and breathes one NHS pillar in particular: character. A few years before he earned a Presidential Merit Scholarship to attend La Salle High School, a private high school in Pasadena, CA, he was diagnosed with T-cell acute...
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Reunion Weekend
La Salle Alumni celebrated a multitude of reunions over the weekend including the Belated Class of 1970 Fifty Year Reunion, the Class of 1960 Belated Sixty Year Reunion, the Class of 1962 Sixty Year Reunion and the Decade of the '60s Reunion which celebrated the Classes of 1960-1970. Over 200 alumni attended the various events and pictures from the various reunions will be emailed out soon. What made the Decade Party on Saturday night even more special was having former faculty member Tony Gelfuso (aka Brother Paul) in attendance along with his wife Shirley. Tony taught at La Salle from...
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College Speakers
Young Alumni currently attending college shared their experiences and insights with current seniors during Mentor on March 23rd. Many thanks to Jeffrey Daley '18 (Vanderbilt), Melody Griffith '18 (UCLA), Kelli Samartin '19 (University of Arizona) and Nicole Strubinskii '19 (Rhode Island School of Design) for participating.
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Passing of Carol Kealey
The Alumni Office regrets to inform you that Carol Kealey, mother of Chris '85 and mother-in-law to former art teacher Heather Kealey, passed away on March 28, 2022. Carol worked at La Salle in the Finance Office from 1981-2001 processing tuition payments, and handling accounts payable and receivable. Please keep the Kealey family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time. For more information, contact the Alumni Office at 626.696.4362 or alumni@lasallehs.org.
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