The Magazine of Jesuit High School in New Orleans • Graduation 2011

Volume 37, Number 2

The Jesuit Community Pays Tribute

Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J.

19 Years of Extraordinary Leadership, Faithful Service,

and Selfless Devotion as President of Jesuit High School

GRADUATION2011Jaynotes, the magazine for and about alumni, parents, and students of Jesuit High School of New Orleans, is published by the Office of Institutional Advancement. Opinions expressed in Jaynotes are those of the individual authors.

PresidentRaymond Fitzgerald, S.J. ’76fitzgerald@jesuitnola.org

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Director of CommunicationsPierre DeGruy ’69Jaynotes Editor degruy@jesuitnola.org

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Parents: If you are receiving your son’s copy of Jaynotes and he no longer lives with you, please let us know so we can update our database and send the magazine directly to him. If you enjoy reading his copy of Jaynotes, we will be glad to send a copy to his new address and a copy to you. Email changes to: alumni@jesuitnola.org. Sign-up online for class reunions and other events. Go to: www.jesuitnola.org.

It is easy to contribute online to Jesuit High School. Go to Jesuit’s web site: www.jesuitnola.org. Look for the “DONATE ONLINE TO JESUIT” link in the upper left corner. On the CoverSenior Day marks the final assembly of the year for the Class of 2011. As is the custom, the seniors are dismissed from assembly one homeroom at a time.

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Fr. Nick Schiro, S.J., a graduate of the Class of 1944 who has been teaching theology to Blue Jays for 36 years, was honored for his steadfast service by Jesuit’s MCJROTC at the organization’s end-of-year annual parade review. Each year, the MCJROTC selects a Jesuit teacher or staff member who is recognized at the parade and review event. Congratulations to Fr. Schiro and keep on educating Blue Jays about their faith!

A SALUTE TO Fr. Nick Schiro, S.J. ’44

Not long ago, Jesuit High School’s web site was randomly hacked by a bored 16-year-old boy who posted juvenile obscenities and graffiti on several pages. The attack was amateurish and it could have been worse. Let me assure you that, first, the hacker was NOT a Blue Jay. Secondly, the breach had no effect whatsoever on the security and safety of Jesuit’s online donations system. That being said, this particular hacking was egregious for several reasons. This neophyte defaced only a dozen or so web pages (the Jesuit site has more than 2,500 pages), but in doing so, he created an “instructional” video, which provided step-by-step directions showing how he successfully hacked into the school’s web site. He then posted his video on You Tube. Don’t bother looking for this video because it vanished immediately after You Tube received a “preservation and take down notice” letter from Jesuit’s attorney. (However, there are still numerous tutorials about hacking on You Tube. In fact, using the search term “computer hacking schools” returned about 1,950 results.) Finally, this amateur cracker joined a hacking forum where he disclosed what he had done to Jesuit’s web site. In the forum, he attempted to discover ways to deface the school’s home page, and also encouraged more experienced hackers to inflict their own damage. This newbie confessed that he was worried that footprints he might have left behind would lead to the discovery of his identity. His fear was justified. This hacking incident was discovered quickly and Jesuit’s technology team shut down the web site for about eight hours to repair the flaw that allowed the kid access and to ensure that the site was secure. And to think that Jesuit was only one of the millions of hack attacks that occur daily in the United States. The Internet Storm Center (isc.sans.org) gathers millions of intrusion detection log entries every day from sensors covering over 500,000 IP addresses in over 50 countries. The world has a problem, not just Jesuit. Back to this rookie cracker. Jesuit’s technology

department determined the name and location of the hacker and provided this information to authorities. When a couple of cyber-crime investigators confronted him, the kid admitted that he had hacked Jesuit’s web site. His laptop was seized as evidence. Several months later, I arranged to visit the boy and his legal guardians. Eventually, with the help of our attorney, a settlement was reached in which Jesuit agreed not to institute criminal or civil charges provided the boy-hacker understood there were consequences for his actions. Therefore, he consented to the following:

• Perform 300 hours of community service work

• Write a letter of apology to Jesuit

• Meet with Jesuit’s technology team and answer all questions

• Never again hack into the Jesuit web site or any other web site.

When the meeting at school occurred, the boy admitted that he randomly came across Jesuit’s web site after trying to infiltrate about 50 other sites with no success. He knew of no student or teacher at Jesuit. In his letter of apology, he wrote: “I under-stand that my actions were meant to be a silly prank and that it has cost Jesuit time and money to repair the defacement. I sincerely ask for forgiveness from anyone I have hurt or offended.” The kid completed 300 hours of community service, which we hope benefitted him as well as those for whom he toiled. In the future, this “former hacker” will channel his computer skills in a positive direction. At least we hope so. His laptop that was seized was returned to him.

Yours truly,Pierre DeGruy ’69Director of Communications / Editor, Jaynotes

Dear Blue Jay Alumni, Parents, Students, and Friends of Jesuit:

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This evening I encourage you to discover words of wisdom in the most ordinary places and among the most ordinary people. I pass on to you advice I first heard in nineteen hundred seventy-eight. One can find encouragement and guidance even in unsolicited advice from a veteran card player nearing the end of his career. “Every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser.” Some people have been dealt incredible challenges, and they respond with heroic sacrifices and remarkable endurance. Remember those heroes who courageously face illness, financial reversals, tragic loss of a loved one, or undeserved hostility from family or friends. In your life you will see many people who respond to tragedies and indescribable hardships with fearless endurance. They have determined to win with the hand they have been dealt. “Every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser.” On the other hand, you will witness some of the most privileged, powerful, and pampered people in the history of the world transform small disappointments into catastrophes of epic proportions. Self-pity distorts one’s vision of reality. “Every hand’s a winner and every hand’s a loser.” “Every gambler knows that the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep.” I encourage you to discard an exaggerated sense of autonomy which fosters the illusion of total independence and self-determination. Freedom is not the ability to satisfy all of our appetites and whims. True freedom removes the obstacles within ourselves that keep us from responding to our destiny. The secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away. I encourage you to throw away any sense of entitlement you may have. Disaster lies ahead for those who live under the illusion that God, their family, or society owes them anything. This kind of distorted

thinking leads to self-destructive and counter-productive choices. The secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away. I encourage you to leave behind any sense of superiority you may have developed. The distinctions and successes you may achieve do not make you a better person — they simply call you to greater service. Expect more of yourself, not more for yourself. The secret to surviving is knowing what to keep. I encourage you to hold on to a sense of gratitude which is the best antidote to the poison of entitlement and privilege. I encourage you to develop and hold on to the power of resilience. Those who want to manipulate you want you to feel so devastated that you avoid challenges and responsibility. I encourage you to develop and hold on to a passion for the truth. Be skeptical of the easy solutions that charming self-promoters try to sell you. Never run away from the truth about yourself. The secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away and knowing what to keep. Throw away entitlement, superiority, and autonomy. Hold on to gratitude, resilience, and a passion for the truth. I thank all of those people I have known who are examples of dealing courageously with hands they been dealt. They have inspired me. I thank the entire school community for making Jesuit what it is. I thank you for helping me to know when to hold them, when to fold them, and when to walk away. n

— Anthony McGinn, S.J. ’66  President, Jesuit High School, 1992 – 2011

Listen: In His Own Words — the audio of Fr. McGinn’s address is posted on Jesuit’s web site: http://www.jesuitnola.org/academics/Academic_Events_Archive_2010_11_082311.htm.

What to Keep, What to Throw AwayDelivered to the Class of 2011 at the Commencement Ceremony held May 24, 2011at the Pontchartrain Center

My fellow graduates who are of the class of Two Thousand Eleven:

The Armstrong Ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel Canal Street was packed with 510 Blue Jays on April 29 for the 10th annual Commencement Luncheon, an event created as an official way to welcome graduating seniors into the Jesuit Alumni Association. The 264 seniors were joined by a nearly equal number of alumni from every class between 1941 and 2010. Alumni and soon-to-be alumni mingled, chatted, and swapped stories of Jesuit yesterday and today. One special story teller was guest speaker Ben Walsh ’79, perhaps better known as radio personality Sgt. T. Ben Boudreaux. His other acronym is Benny the Jokeman, a funny writer who contributes hilarious one-liners to Jay Leno and other comedy headliners. No one in the room was safe from the dangerous Walsh Wit. And that included Jesuit president Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J. ’66, chemistry teacher Harry Clark ’59 (who retired at the end of the 2010-11 year), and Mayor Mitch Landrieu ’78, all of whom took the good natured ribbing with a laugh. Ultimately, though, Walsh expressed what all in the room were feeling: “We all have Jesuit High School in our DNA.”

Blue Jay Spirit in Abundance at 10th Annual Commencement Luncheon

VALEDICTORY ADDRESS

The Class of 2011 had eight valedictorians. At dress rehearsal for commencement, they formed a casual-looking group of young men. Seated, from left, are Richard P. Bordelon, Daniel T. Cooper, Brian V. Credo, Jr., and Salvador R. Maffei; standing, from left, are Jacob D. Moore, Christopher M. Munna, Nicholas J. Wallbillich, and Donald F. Ward III. Cooper delivered the valedictory address.

Commencement means beginning (there is your vocabulary lesson for the day). So this ceremony is called commencement for a reason — it really is more about beginning than ending. Even though this ceremony wraps up one part of our lives, from this day on we get to look forward to so much more — college, independence, and chances to make an impact on the world. But before we start talking about the future, let’s look back over the years that we conclude tonight. Over the past four or five years, we have been heavily involved in many different activities, organizations, and teams. And our dedication has paid off. Just over the past year, this class has accomplished so much — a record number of athletic championships, as well as many club and co-curricular achievements. We even beat the teachers in both senior-faculty athletic games. And we have had a great time doing this, thanks to an awesome student council and supportive classmates. This was a great year, and we have to thank our teachers and coaches for all their instruction and direction. Father McGinn is being reassigned, and Ms. (Kathi) Tomeny and Mr. (Harry) Clark (’59) are retiring this year. Together, they have dedicated over 100 years to the students of Jesuit High School, and we especially thank them. In addition, thanks to you — our parents — since your support made all our accomplishments possible. And let us always remember to use these accomplishments to honor God. Guys, you have done incredible things, and the future

definitely looks great for each and every one of you. All of you are moving on to places that will create amazing opportunities for success. However, you are going to find yourselves in new situations and face some tough challenges, so I encourage you to use what you have learned through high school, the experiences you had, and the friends that you made to overcome these difficulties and learn from them. Definitely have a great time and enjoy college, but also don’t forget to take advantage of all the opportunities for success the next few years will bring. Let me leave you with some advice from a man who really knew how to succeed — Michael Jordan. “MJ” once said that some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. In spite of many challenges and failures, Michael Jordan made it happen on his way to six NBA championships. Guys, I know you can make it happen, too. You have already accomplished so much just as high school students and graduates. I look forward to hanging out with you in the future and hearing about all that you have made happen. Again, congrats on graduating. I am proud of every one of you. God bless and good night. n

View the photo galleries and listen to the address: http://www.jesuit-nola.org/academics/Academic_Events_Archive_2010_11_082311.htm.

The Class of 2011 produced eight valedictorians. The graduating senior who has earned the highest total numerical semester grades in the prescribed core curriculum for the senior year is selected to be the speaker at commencement ceremonies. Thus, Daniel Cooper had the honor of delivering the 2011 commencement address. Interestingly, since the school instituted eighth grade in 1951-52, Cooper is the first valedictorian speaker who did not attend Jesuit all five years. He entered Jesuit as a freshman in the 2007-08 school year.

Make It Happen!

Daniel Cooper

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Three Seniors Honored With Special Awards

THE REVEREND FATHER PRESIDENT’S SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP AWARD is presented to the student who has exerted the greatest spiritual influence on others by living a life exemplifying his Catholic faith. The President’s Spiritual Leadership Award is given to that member of the senior class who manifests to the rest of the school community his dedication and commitment to Christ and the Church through his personal life, concern for others, and Christian example. By vote of the faculty, this year’s award was merited by Matthew J. Tusa.

THE JULIA FERGUSON McENERNY MEMORIAL TROPHY, DONATED BY WILL GIBBONS McENERNY OF THE CLASS OF 1914, is awarded to that member of the senior class who has a good scholastic record, has performed well in at least one co-curricular activity, and who possesses those qualities which symbolize the most representative student of Jesuit High School. He should be a leader among the students, and his leadership should be in the area of preserving school spirit. The senior who was judged deserving of this year’s award, by a vote of the faculty, was Michael P. Firmin.

THE FATHER PEDRO ARRUPé AWARD is awarded to the senior who has exemplified the spirit of being a man for others by his participation and excellence in service. This year, by a vote of the faculty, the award was presented to Peter J. Casey.

THE BLUE JAY PARENTS’ CLUB AWARD for excellence in scholarship is awarded to the seniors who graduated with the highest grade point average for four years at Jesuit High School and are named co-valedictorians of their class. This year, eight seniors in the Class of 2011 merited this award: Richard P. Bordelon, Daniel T. Cooper, Brian V. Credo, Jr., Salvador R. Maffei, Jacob D. Moore, Christopher M. Munna, Nicholas J. Wallbillich, and Donald F. Ward III.

Each year, the faculty of Jesuit High School votes on the recipients of three special awards that are presented at the Commencement Ceremony. Matthew Tusa

Peter Casey

Michael Firmin

Three Blue Jays were part of an outstanding group of football players from the New Orleans area honored at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Scholar-Athlete Luncheon last April. Offensive linemen Cal Creel (#68) and Patrick DeVun (#62), and defensive lineman Matt Sanchez (#66) were major contributors to the success of the 2010 Jesuit team, which shared the district title and advanced to the quarterfinals of the state playoffs. Off the field, these three Blue Jays were successful in the classroom. Creel was a National Merit Finalist, DeVun was named to the LHSAA-5A Academic Team, and Sanchez was a National Hispanic Scholar. Congratulations to these Blue Jays who made the grade on and off the field!

Trio of Blue Jays Honoredfor Their Success on the Field and in the Classroom

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AWARDS PRESENTED AT 2011 AWARDS CEREMONY

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THE FRANK T. HOWARD MEMORIAL AWARD for excellence in English was merited by Daniel T. Cooper.

THE JESUIT 500 CLUB AWARD for Latin was merited by Brian V. Credo, Jr.

THE WILLIAM HELIS MEMORIAL AWARD for Greek was merited by Donald F. Ward III.

THE LOYOLA UNIVERSITY AWARD FOR MATHEMATICS, given to the senior with the highest overall average in mathematics, was merited by Daniel T. Cooper.

THE REVEREND WILLIAM J. RYAN MEMORIAL AWARD for history, donated by Dr. J. Joseph Ryan, was merited by Daniel T. Cooper.

THE FRANK T. HOWARD MEMORIAL AWARD for excellence in physics was merited by Daniel T. Cooper.

THE JIMMY KUCK AWARD for excellence in chemistry was merited by Michael M. Ceraso ’12.

THE AWARD FOR ExCELLENCE IN BIOLOGY was merited by Abdul R. Khan.

THE PAqUETTE FAMILY AWARD for excellence in French was merited by Kevin P. Whittaker.

THE UBALDO TRELLES MEMORIAL AWARD for excellence in Spanish was merited by Jarvis K. Harris.

THE GIUNIO SOCOLA MEMORIAL AWARD, donated by Mrs. Anita Socola Specht for excellence in debate in the Lincoln-Douglas senior division, was merited by Jacob J. Pritt.

THE SUSAN & GARIC SCHOEN AWARD for excellence in computer studies was merited by Parker A. Sprouse.

THE PHILELECTIC SOCIETY AWARD for outstanding achievement in dramatics was merited by quintin T. Denman.

THE PROFESSOR MICHAEL CUPERO MEMORIAL AWARD for band leadership, donated by his grandson, Hamil Cupero, was merited by Nicholas J. Caluda.

THE CULTURE OF LIFE AWARD, given to the student who has shown exemplary leadership in Jesuit’s Pro-Life Club, was merited by Kevin M. Fitzpatrick.

THE COACH EDWIN E. TORIBIO MEMORIAL AWARD, presented to the senior who best combined scholarship and athletics, was merited by Matthew A. Sanchez.

THE LARRY GILBERT FAMILY MEMORIAL AWARD for the best all-around athlete on the varsity teams was awarded to Ryota S. Dunn.

THE ALOYSIUS J. CAHILL MEMORIAL AWARD for proficiency in oratory was merited by Alex E. Hotard.

THE JOHN D. SCHILLECI MEMORIAL AWARD for excellence in elocution in the senior division was merited by Zhen P. Huang ’12.

THE LEA NAqUIN HEBERT MEMORIAL AWARD, donated by her sons F. Edward and Gordon Ray Hebert for excellence in public debate in the senior division, was merited by Scott L. Tilton.

THE FELIx J. HEBERT MEMORIAL AWARD, donated by his sons F. Edward and Gordon Ray Hebert for excellence in public debate in the junior division, was merited by Logan M. Williams ’12.

THE REVEREND FRANCIS A. FOx, S.J. MEMORIAL AWARD, donated by Mr. Harry Morel, Sr. for proficiency in instrumental music, was merited by Ian K. Rohr ’13.

THE ROBERT T. CASEY MEMORIAL AWARD, for the varsity athlete with the best sportsmanship and spirit, was awarded ex aequo to Michael P. Firmin and Joseph A. Tumminello, Jr.

THE COACH GERNON BROWN MEMORIAL AWARD, for the best all-around athlete of the junior varsity teams during the 2010-11 school year, was awarded to Joshua S. DeBlieux ’13.

THE “RUSTY” STAUB AWARD, for the senior baseball letterman who best exhibited leadership, sportsmanship, and spirit, was awarded to Joshua L. Faciane.

THE DONALD R. FORD AWARD for the outstanding football lineman was awarded to Patrick T. DeVun.

THE AWARD FOR ALL-AROUND ATHLETIC ABILITY was awarded ex aequo to Jarvis K. Harris and Myles C. Lewis.

THE WILLIAM D. AND MAYBELL POSTELL AWARD, donated by Mr. John Blake Postell ’59 to the senior basketball player who best exhibited leadership, scholarship, and spirit, was awarded to Nicholas R. Varisco.

THE “FIGHTING JAYLET” AWARD, donated by Mr. Charles W. Heim, Jr. ’59 in honor of the 1968 Fighting Jaylets, for the junior varsity basketball player who has demonstrated the highest quality of excellence as a student athlete, was presented to Riley H. Conroy ’14.

THE MORRIS B. REDMANN, JR. MEMORIAL AWARD, for the outstanding senior football letterman who best combined scholarship and athletics, was merited by Matthew H. Andry.

THE EDWIN F. STACY, JR. WRESTLING AWARD, presented to the outstanding wrestler who made a major contribution to the team, excelled in academics, and exhibited exemplary leadership, was awarded to Christopher S. Johnson, Jr.

THE MICHAEL D. CONWAY AWARD for the most valuable player on the varsity soccer team was awarded to Steven M. Cabos.

THE RODRIGUEZ FAMILY AWARD for the most valuable swimmer was awarded to Daniel W. Dupré.

THE CHESTER M. RIETH AWARD for the senior track letterman who exhibited leadership, sportsmanship, and spirit was awarded to Jarvis K. Harris.

THE STANLEY RAY AWARD for the most improved track letterman for the current year is merited by Sean P. Fitzpatrick ’13.

THE MOST VALUABLE GOLFER AWARD, presented to the golfer who made a significant contribution to the team, exhibited exemplary leadership, and performed in an outstanding manner in tournament play, was awarded to Myles C. Lewis.

THE MOST VALUABLE TENNIS PLAYER AWARD, presented to the senior tennis player who made a significant contribution to the tennis program, exhibited exemplary leadership, and performed in an outstanding manner in tournament play, was presented to Trevor A. Lew ’14.

THE CHRISTOPHER MORGAN MEMORIAL AWARD, for the cross-country letterman who best exemplified courage, leadership, sportsmanship, and spirit, was awarded to Philip N. Aucoin.

THE JOSEPH MICHAEL WORLEY MEMORIAL AWARD, presented to a senior who — by his unselfishness, sportsmanship, and spirit during his career at Jesuit — enhanced the athletic program as a player, manager, trainer, or student, was awarded to Dylan M. Richard.

View the photo gallery of awards night: http://www.jesuitnola.org/extra/honors.htm.

Each year, Jesuit High School recognizes seniors and underclassmen who have achieved significant academic, athletic, and co-curricular honors. Unless designated otherwise, recipients were seniors of the Class of 2011. Among the awards presentedon May 5, 2011 in the Jesuit Auditorium were the following:

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Off They Go!

Jesuit’s 264 graduates of the Class of 2011 are the newest Blue Jay alumni. They are attending 60 different colleges and universities, armed with a collective $24,493,877 worth of scholarship offers.

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Cal José AbadinLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Tulane University; Florida State University; University of Alabama; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Northwestern State University; Loyola University New Orleans; Texas Christian University; University of MississippiScholarships offered — Florida State University Tuition Reduction Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Texas Christian University TCU Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Joseph Ryan AcombUniversity of MississippiAlso accepted to Wofford College; University of Kentucky; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Randal Patrick Agee University of Southern MississippiAlso accepted to University of Arkansas; Louisiana Tech University; Louisiana State University; McNeese State University; Mississippi State University; Nicholls State University (Honors Program); University of Mississippi; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Scholarships offered — Louisiana Tech University Outstanding Student Scholarship; Nicholls State University Honors Scholarship; University of Southern Mississippi Golden Opportunity Scholarship and Regional Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Umair AhmedLouisiana State University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Excellence Fee Exemption and Pelican Promise Award; TOPS Honors Award

Christopher Dwayne Andrade(National Achievement Scholarship Program Honoree)University of Southern MississippiAlso accepted to Louisiana Tech University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette;University of Mississippi Scholarships offered — University of Southern Mississippi Regional Scholarship

Matthew Hunt Andry Gannon UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; University of Louisiana at Monroe Scholarships offered — Gannon University Athletic Scholarship, Catholic High School Grant, and University Scholars Award; University of Louisiana at Monroe Athletic Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Edward Henry Arnold IV(National Merit Program Commended Student) Southern Methodist University (Honors Program)Also accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); Texas Christian University (Honors Program); University of Georgia (Honors Program); Tulane University (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Southern Methodist University Presidential Scholarship;

Texas Christian University Dean’s Scholarship; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; University of Georgia Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Christopher Dennis Arruebarrena St. Louis UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana Tech University; Louisiana State University; Loyola University New Orleans; Spring Hill College; Xavier University in Cincinnati; University of New Orleans; Nicholls State University Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award; St. Louis University Ignatian Scholarship, Jesuit High School Award, and FACHEX; TOPS Opportunity Award

Philip Noel Aucoin Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Alabama Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University of Alabama Engineering Leadership Scholarship, President’s Cabinet Engineering Supplement, and UA Scholar Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Anthony Michael Avena (National Merit Program Commended Student)Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Louisiana at Lafayette; University of Southern MississippiScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Aryan Hamid Azimi Tulane UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; Baylor University; Loyola University New Orleans; Loyola University Maryland Scholarships offered — Baylor University Provost’s Gold Scholarship; Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Loyola University Maryland Claver Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Tulane University NOLA Award and Tulane Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Stephen Middlebrook BaayLouisiana State University

Brian Mickey Barbara Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Louisiana American Italian Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship for 2011; Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Jordan Paul Barbier Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Loyola University New Orleans; Spring Hill College; St. Louis University Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Spring Hill College Academic Achievement Award, Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award, and Spring Hill Incentive Award; St. Louis University Jesuit High School Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Anthony Paul Barletta University of Alabama (Honors Program)

Also accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); Tulane University (Honors Program); Fordham University (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Fordham University Dean’s Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Southern Methodist University Presidential Scholarship; Texas Christian University Dean’s Scholarship; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; University of Georgia Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award Alexander Hulvey Barnes Millsaps CollegeAlso accepted to Trinity University; Furman University; St. Louis University; Spring Hill College; University of Pittsburgh; Duquesne University Scholarships offered — Duquesne University Academic Scholarship; Millsaps College Second Century Scholarship; Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award; St. Louis University Ignatian Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; TOPS Performance Award

Nicholas Stahel Barousse Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; University of Mississippi; Spring Hill College Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Michael Ceasar Bates University of Georgia Also accepted to University of Mississippi; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Ryan Thomas Beard Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Honors Program); Nicholls State University (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — USBC Smart Program Award; TOPS Performance Award

Michael Patrick Berry(National Merit Finalist) Texas A&M UniversityAlso accepted to Fordham University; University of Alabama; Denison University; Creighton University; Butler University; University of Miami Scholarships offered — Creighton University Founders Award; Denison University Alumni Award; Fordham University Loyola Scholarship and Fordham Tuition Award; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Benjamin Thomas Bienvenue Fordham UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University

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Scholarships offered — Fordham University Jogues Scholarship and Fordham Tuition Award; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Honors Award

Richard Paul Bordelon(National Merit Finalist) Fordham University (Honors Program)Also accepted to Tulane University (Honors Program); Georgetown University; Spring Hill College (Honors Program); Creighton University; University of Chicago; Rice University; The Catholic University of America (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Catholic University of America CUA Scholarship; Creighton University Presidential Scholarship; Fordham University Presidential Scholarship; Fred G. Brune Educational Scholarship; Georgetown University Bellarmine Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; University of Chicago University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Jack Edward Bowling Clemson UniversityAlso accepted to Texas Christian University; University of Alabama; University of Mississippi; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Aidan Irwin Breaux University of San Diego Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Clemson University; College of Charleston; Loyola Marymount University; University of Colorado at BoulderScholarships offered — Clemson University Out-of-State Recruiting Scholarship; College of Charleston C of C Academic Scholarship and Presidential Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola Marymount University Jesuit High School Scholarship; University of Colorado-Boulder Chancellor’s Achievement Scholarship; University of San Diego Alcala Scholarship and USD Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

David Harmon Brett(National Merit Finalist) Vanderbilt UniversityAlso accepted to American University (Honors Program); Auburn University (Honors Program); Colorado School of Mines (Honors Program); Georgia Institute of Technology (Honors Program); Louisiana Tech University; Mississippi State University (Honors Program); Texas A&M University; Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Alabama (Honors Program); University of Central Florida (Honors Program); University of Chicago; University of Florida (Honors Program); University of Oklahoma (Honors Program); University of Texas at Dallas (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — American University Presidential Scholarship; Auburn University Presidential Scholarship; Colorado School of Mines Golden Scholar Award; Georgia Institute of Technology President’s Scholarship; Louisiana Tech University National Merit Finalist Scholarship; Mississippi State University National Merit Finalist

Scholarship; Texas A&M University National Merit Finalist Scholarship; Tulane University Presidential Scholar’s Award; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Central Florida Burdett Honors National Merit Scholarship; University of Chicago National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Florida National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Oklahoma National Merit Scholarship; University of Texas at Dallas National Merit Finalist Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Andrew Scott BroomeLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Alabama; University of Alabama at Birmingham; Fordham University; Auburn University Scholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Charter Scholarship; Fordham University Gift Aid Award; Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Mac Gregor Bulloch IV Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Alexander Steven Burch Auburn University (Honors Program)Also accepted to University of Alabama; Louisiana State University (Honors College); St. Louis University (Honors Program, Medical Scholars Program); The Catholic University of America; Loyola University Chicago (Honors Program)  Scholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Heritage Scholarship; Catholic University of America Alumni Grant, CUA Scholarship, and Parish Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University Chicago Jesuit Heritage Award and Jesuit Half Tuition Scholarship; St. Louis University Presidential Finalist Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; University of Alabama UA Scholar Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Barron Michael Burmaster(National Merit Finalist) Berklee College of MusicAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship and Music Performance Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

James Julien Burvant(National Merit Finalist) Haverford CollegeAlso accepted to Georgetown University Scholarships offered — National Merit Scholarship Corporation Finalist Scholarship

Robert Clendon Butera(National Merit Program Commended Student) University of Miami (Honors Program)Also accepted to Boston College; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Vanderbilt University; University of Notre Dame (Glynn Family Honors Program); Tulane University (Honors Program); Fordham University (Honors Program); Washington and Lee University; Louisiana State University (Honors College)  Scholarships offered — Fordham University Dean’s

Scholarship; Louisiana State University Chancellor’s Alumni Scholarship; Tulane University Dean’s Honor Scholarship Honorable Mention; University of Miami Isaac Bashevis Singer Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Steven Marcel Cabos University of KentuckyAlso accepted to Butler University; Dayton University; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Butler University Soccer Athletic Scholarship; University of Kentucky Soccer Athletic Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Nicholas Joseph Caluda(National Merit Finalist) University of Alabama (Honors Program)Also accepted to Spring Hill College (Honors Program); Loyola University New Orleans; Fordham University; Furman University; Hendrix College; Millsaps College; Rhodes College; Hillsdale College  Scholarships offered — Fordham University Loyola Scholarship; Furman University Achiever Scholarship; Hendrix College Academic Scholarship and Odyssey Honors and Distinction Award for Artistic Creativity; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Millsaps College Second Century Scholarship; Rhodes College Rhodes Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Award; TOPS Honors Award

Austin Taylor Cannon Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Alabama; Southern Methodist University; Spring Hill College (Honors Program); University of Alabama at Birmingham; Baylor University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Texas Christian University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Southern Methodist University SMU Distinguished Scholar Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Texas Christian University Faculty Scholarship; University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazer Elite Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Stephen McCormack Capella Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Auburn University; Texas Christian University; University of Alabama; University of Mississippi Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Peter Joseph Casey Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Fordham University; The Catholic University of America; The King’s College; George Mason University Scholarships offered — Catholic University of America Alumni Grant, CUA Scholarship, and Parish Scholarship; Fordham University Jogues Scholarship; King’s College Presidential Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; TOPS Performance Award

Nathan Christian CedorUniversity of the Ozarks Also accepted to Southeastern Louisiana University; Spring Hill College; Loyola University New Orleans; Millsaps College;

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CLOSE TO HOME (30) Tulane (11) Loyola (7) UNO (6)Delgado (4)xavier (2)

OUT-OF-STATE (104)University of Alabama (10) Auburn University (8)University of Southern Mississippi (8) Spring Hill (7)

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Belhaven University; Nicholls State University; Northwestern Louisiana State University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Millsaps College Millsaps Award; Southeastern Louisiana University Honor Scholarship and Housing Scholarship; Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award; University of the Ozarks Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Christopher Moriano Chevalier Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Grant and Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Colin Christopher Chouest Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of New Orleans Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Jonathan Christopher CiaccioLouisiana State University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Andrew Steven Clavin Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Mississippi State University; University of Alabama (Honors Program); Louisiana Tech University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Louisiana Tech University Outstanding Student Scholarship and GPA Upgrade; Mississippi State University Freshman Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Tuition Scholarship; University of Alabama Foundations in Excellence Scholarship and Dean’s Engineering Excellence Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Michael Parker Cobb, Jr. Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Charles McClendon Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Alex Wilton CoffeyUndecided Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Daniel Thomas Cooper(National Merit Finalist) Harvard CollegeAlso accepted to Duke University; Johns Hopkins University; Washington University in St. Louis; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Honors Program); Auburn University; University of Florida; Tulane University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Scholarships offered — American Petroleum Institute Scholarship; Duke University Scholarship; Elks Lodge Scholarship; Harvard College Harvard Faculty Scholarship; Louisiana Mu Alpha Theta Scholarship; Louisiana State Literary Rally Scholarship; MathCounts Louisiana State University Scholarship; MathCounts Louisiana Tech University Scholarship; National Merit Scholarship Corporation Finalist Scholarship; National Mu Alpha Theta Scholarship; Polk

Foundation Scholarship; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Medal Scholarship; Tulane University Presidential Award; University of Florida National Merit Finalist Award; Washington University in St. Louis Eliot Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Brian Victor Credo, Jr.(National Merit Finalist) University of Notre Dame (Glynn Family Honors Program)Also accepted to Princeton University; Georgetown University; Fordham University (Honors Program); Boston College (Honors Program); The Catholic University of America (Honors Program); Tulane University (Honors Program); Loyola University New Orleans (Honors Program); Spring Hill College Scholarships offered — Boston College Scholarship; Fordham University National Merit Finalist Scholarship and Fordham Scholarship; Georgetown University Bellarmine Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Ignatian Scholarship; National Merit Scholarship Corporation Finalist Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Scholar Award; Tulane University Presidential Award; University of Notre Dame Provost’s Scholarship and University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Callender Riley Creel (National Merit Finalist) University of Mississippi (Honors Program)Also accepted to Louisiana State University(Honors College) Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; University of Mississippi Barnard Scholarship, Academic Excellence Housing Scholarship, National Merit Finalist Scholarship, and Non-Resident Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Gerard Forry Cruice University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Douglass Dwyer Daboval University of Louisiana at LafayetteAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; University of New Orleans Scholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award

Bryce Andrew Danna-Marullo Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Joseph Albert DantinNorthwestern State UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; Louisiana Tech University; University of New Orleans

Anthony Ramon Davila (National Hispanic Scholar)Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Miami; Auburn University (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Auburn University National

Scholars Presidential Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; TOPS Honors Award

William Brennan Davis Vanderbilt UniversityAlso accepted to Washington and Lee University; University of Georgia; Boston College; University of Richmond; College of Charleston (Honors Program); Tulane University; Louisiana State University (Honors College); Southern Methodist University (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — College of Charleston C of C Academic Scholar Award and Presidential Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Southern Methodist University Engineering Fellows Scholarship and Founder’s Scholarship; Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

John Kriel Dawes, Jr. Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Matthew Joseph DeCuir (National Merit Finalist) Auburn University (Honors Program)Also accepted to Baylor University; Clemson University Scholarships offered — Auburn University National Scholars Presidential Scholarship; Baylor University National Merit Finalist Scholarship; Clemson University Academic Scholarship

Patrick Thomas DeVun Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Honors Award

quintin Thomas Denman Texas A&M University (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Texas A&M Sul Ross Corps Scholarship

Michael Joseph Derbes Spring Hill College (Honors Program)Also accepted to Tulane University; Fordham University; Louisiana State University; St. Louis University; Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; St. Louis University Jesuit High School Award; TOPS Honors Award

Doanh Hoang Nguyen Do Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Excellence Scholarship and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

James Lawrence Donovan III Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

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Ryker Mikhail Doskey Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Mississippi State University; Loyola University New Orleans; Louisiana Tech University; Spring Hill College; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Mississippi State University Freshman Academic Scholarship and Non-Resident Waiver; Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Thomas Patrick Dowling (National Merit Finalist) Vanderbilt University Also accepted to Washington University in St. Louis; Auburn University (Honors Program); University of Alabama (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Presidential Scholarship; National Merit Scholarship Corporation Finalist Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship and Engineering Leadership Scholarship

Bradley Ryan Doyle Tulane University Scholarships offered — Tulane University Tuition Waiver; TOPS Honors Award

Ronald Joseph Drez University of Alabama (Honors Program)Also accepted to Millsaps College; Tulane University; St. Louis University; Loyola University New Orleans; The Catholic University of America (Honors Program); Spring Hill College (Honors Program); Auburn University (Honors Program); Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of Mississippi Scholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Heritage Scholarship; Catholic University of America CUA Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Millsaps College Second Century Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Scholar Award; St. Louis University SLU Vice President’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Dustin Paul Ducote Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Entergy Community Power Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Reed Primo Dufour Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Southern Mississippi; Millsaps College Scholarships offered — Millsaps College Second Century Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Timothy Michael Duncan Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

John Alexander Dunlap(National Merit Program Commended Student) Wofford CollegeAlso accepted to Washington University in St. Louis; Boston College; Rhodes College; Sewanee: The University of the South; Oglethorpe University (Honors Program); Furman University; Spring Hill College (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Furman University Achiever Scholarship; Oglethorpe University Presidential with Recognition Scholarship; Rhodes College University Scholarship; Sewanee: The University of the South Ecce Quam Bonum Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Wofford College Benjamin Wofford Scholarship

Ryota Steven Roberto Dunn University of OregonAlso accepted to DePaul University; Rhodes College; Union College; Wagner College Scholarships offered — DePaul University Merit Scholarship; Nicholls State University Full Athletic Scholarship; Wagner College Presidential Scholarship

Daniel Webster Dupré(National Merit Finalist) University of Miami (Honors Program)Also accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); Auburn University (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Presidential Scholarship, Technology Allowance, Enrichment Stipend, and Civil Engineering Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award, Chancellor’s Student Aide Award, and Pegues Scholarship; University of Miami Isaac Bashevis Singer Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Stanton Chase Dupuy Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Louisiana at Lafayette; University of Dallas; Southeastern Louisiana University; University of Southern Mississippi Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Forrest Tane Earls Louisiana State University (Eunice)Also accepted to University of Southern Mississippi Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Connor Thomas Eckholdt(National Merit Program Commended Student) Boston College Also accepted to Fordham University; Loyola University New Orleans (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Fordham University Loyola Scholarship Tuition Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Edwin August F. Ellinghausen IV Louisiana State University Also accepted to Spring Hill College Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

Joshua Louis Faciane University of Louisiana at MonroeAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; University of New OrleansScholarships offered — University of Louisiana

at Monroe Baseball Athletic Scholarship and ULM Academic Recognition Tier I Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Christopher Joseph Farnet Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Kyle Anthony FasulloUniversity of New OrleansAlso accepted to Northwestern State University Bradford Michael Felger Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to University of Alabama (Honors Program); Tulane University (Honors Program); Spring Hill College (Honors Program); Southern Methodist UniversityScholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Heritage Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Southern Methodist University Provost’s Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Gerald Joseph Ferro III Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — American Italian Renaissance Foundation Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

John Gabriel Finney Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Kyle Patrick Finney Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Louisiana at Lafayette Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Michael Patrick Firmin Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana Tech University Scholarships offered — Louisiana Tech University Outstanding Student Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Kevin Michael Fitzpatrick University of DallasAlso accepted to St. Louis University; Spring Hill College; Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award; St. Louis University Ignatian Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; University of Dallas Provost’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

William Edward Fitzpatrick University of Alabama (Honors Program)Also accepted to University of Mississippi; Spring Hill College (Honors Program); University of Alabama at Birmingham; St. Louis University; Fordham University Scholarships offered — Fordham University Jogues Scholarship and Fordham Tuition Award; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; St. Louis University SLU Dean’s Tuition Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; University of Alabama

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at Birmingham Blazer Elite Scholarship; University of Alabama UA Scholar Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Michael Ivan Flynn, Jr. Birmingham Southern CollegeAlso accepted to University of Mississippi; Mississippi State University

Anthony Hilton Fortier-Bensen, Jr. Delgado Community CollegeAlso accepted to Louisiana State University

Brian Joseph Foster University of Miami Also accepted to American University; The Catholic University of America (Honors Program); The King’s College; Louisiana State University (Honors College); St. Louis University (Honors Program); Spring Hill College (Honors Program); Tulane University; Villanova UniversityScholarships offered — Frederick Douglass Scholarship; Catholic University of America CUA Scholarship and Parish Scholarship; King’s College Presidential Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; St. Louis University Dean’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Tulane University Academic Achievement Award; TOPS Honors Award

Drake Thomas FotoLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Daniel Stephen Fouquet Louisiana State University (Honors College) Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Adam Paul Fournier Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Christopher Colin Fox(National Merit Program Commended Student) University of Alabama (Honors Program)Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; Tulane University (Honors Program); Louisiana State University (Honors College); Spring Hill College; Trinity University; Auburn University (Honors Program); Fordham University; Marquette University; Regis UniversityScholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Presidential Scholarship; Fordham University Jogues Scholarship and Fordham Tuition Award; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Marquette University Ignatius Academic Excellence Scholarship; Regis University Board of Trustees Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Trinity University President’s Scholarship; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Gregory Michael Fox, Jr. Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of MississippiScholarships offered —TOPS Opportunity Award

David Edward Freytag Texas Christian UniversityAlso accepted to Tulane University; St. Louis University; Louisiana State University; University of the Pacific; Trinity University; University of Tampa; Santa Clara UniversityScholarships offered — St. Louis University SLU Ignatian Tuition Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Texas Christian University Tuition Exchange Scholarship; Trinity University Grant Award; Tulane University Tuition Waiver; University of the Pacific Tuition Exchange Scholarship; University of Tampa UT Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Robert Brisbane Gambel University of AlabamaAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; University of Tampa; University of North Carolina at Ashville; High Point UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Brandon Michael Ganucheau University of Southern MississippiScholarships offered — University of Southern Mississippi Leadership Scholarship and Regional Scholarship

Adolfo Enrique GarciaUniversity of New Orleans

Paul Vincent Garcia Emory and Oxford CollegeAlso accepted to Emory College; Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Miami; Spring Hill College (Honors Program); University of San Francisco (Honors Program); University of Santa Clara (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Oxford College of Emory University Oxford Scholarship I; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Tulane University Academic Achievement Award and Tulane Scholarship; University of Miami Dickinson Scholarship; University of San Francisco Presidential Merit Award; University of Santa Clara SCU Dean’s Scholarship and Jesuit Ignatian Award; TOPS Honors Award

Vincent Michael Gennaro(National Merit Program Commended Student) Washington and Lee UniversityAlso accepted to Villanova University; College of the Holy Cross; Tulane University; University of Richmond; Louisiana State University (Honors College)Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Matthew Michael GerarveLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Honors Award

Joshua Michael Giordano Lehigh UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of San Diego (Honors Program); Sewanee: The University of the South; Rhodes College; Colby College; Villanova University; Fordham University; Bucknell University; University of Richmond; College of William and Mary (St. Andrews Joint Degree Honors Program); Case Western Reserve University; Trinity University; Loyola Marymount University; St. Louis University; Marquette University; Creighton UniversityScholarships offered — Bucknell University Dean’s Scholarship and Bucknell Scholarship; Case Western Reserve University Scholarship; Creighton University Magis Award; Fordham University Dean’s Scholarship; Lehigh University Lehigh Scholar Award; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola Marymount University Arrupe Scholarship; Marquette University Ignatius Academic Scholarship; Rhodes College University Scholarship; Sewanee: The University of the South Ecce Quam Bonum Award; St. Louis University Dean’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Trinity University Trustees’ Scholarship; University of San Diego Alcala Award; TOPS Honors Award

Philip Joseph GiorlandoLouisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to University of Alabama (Honors Program); Texas A&M UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Dillon Alexander Glapion xavier University of Louisiana Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Spring Hill CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Nicholas Michael Graves(National Merit Program Commended Student) Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Spring Hill College Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

Christopher John-Martin Gretchen Wake Forest UniversityAlso accepted to Spring Hill College Scholarships offered — Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Wake Forest University Academic Scholarship

Gavin James Harrington(National Merit Program Commended Student) Loyola University New Orleans Also accepted to University of Vermont; Hendrix College; Trinity University; University of Tampa; St. John’s University; Eckerd CollegeScholarships offered — Eckerd College Trustee Academic Achievement Scholarship; Hendrix College Academic Scholarship and Odyssey Honors and Distinction Award for Artistic Creativity; Loyola University New Orleans Jesuit

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Identity Award; St. John’s University Scholastic Excellence Scholarship; Trinity University Trustees’ Scholarship; University of Tampa Presidential Scholarship; University of Vermont Presidential Scholarship and Henderson Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Jarvis Kegan Harris(National Achievement Scholarship Program Honoree) Harvard CollegeAlso accepted to Georgia Institute of Technology; Tulane University (Honors Program); Cornell University; Baylor University (Honors Program); Rice UniversityScholarships offered — Georgia Institute of Technology Provost’s Scholarship; Cornell University McMullen Engineering Dean’s Scholar; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; Baylor University President’s Gold Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Stephen Louis Hayman Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Robert Lawrence Helm (National Merit Finalist) Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Baylor University (Honors Program); Auburn University (Honors Program); University of Alabama (Honors Program); Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Miami (Honors Program); University of Georgia (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Presidential Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Miami University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Keith Gerard Henry, Jr. College of CharlestonAlso accepted to Eckerd College; Louisiana State University; Spring Hill College; St. Edward’s University; University of Mississippi; University of AlabamaScholarships offered — Eckerd College Dean’s Scholarship; Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Cade Elias Hoerner Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Trinity University; Christian Brothers University (Honors Program); Southern Methodist University; North Carolina State University; Furman University; University of New Mexico; Louisiana State University (Honors College)Scholarships offered — Christian Brothers University Buckman Scholarship and Woody/Jenne Ernie Micek Engineering Scholarship; Furman University Achiever Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Southern Methodist University SMU Provost’s Scholarship and Engineering Fellows Scholarship; Trinity University President’s Scholarship; University of New Mexico Amigo Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Bryn Carlton Hooper Spring Hill CollegeAlso accepted to Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Matthew Ryan Hose(National Merit Program Commended Student) University of San DiegoAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans (Honors Program); Loyola Marymount University; American University; Tulane University (Honors Program); University of San Francisco; University of Notre Dame (Honors Program); Boston University; Villanova University (Honors Program); Louisiana State University (Honors College)Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola Marymount University Arrupe Scholarship and LMU Grant; Loyola University New Orleans Jesuit Identity Award; Tulane University Presidential Award; University of San Diego University Alcala Scholarship and USD Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Alex Edward Hotard(National Merit Finalist) Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to University of Mississippi; Auburn University (Honors Program); Fordham University; St. Louis University; Spring Hill College (Honors

Program); Millsaps College; Tulane University (Honors Program); Loyola University New Orleans; University of AlabamaScholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Presidential Scholarship; Fordham University Fordham Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Millsaps College Presidential Scholarship; National Merit Finalist SAIC Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; St. Louis University Vice President’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Tulane University Presidential Award; University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Ethan Theodore Huete Auburn UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; Mississippi State UniversityScholarships offered — Auburn University Academic Heritage Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Honors Award

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Cody Preston Hufft Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

David Joseph Hymel, Jr. University of New Orleans (Honors Program)Also accepted to Louisiana State University; Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — University of New Orleans Jackson Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award

Brendan Patrick Jackson Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Baylor University; Spring Hill CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Leader Award; TOPS Honors Award

Bradley Thomas James(National Merit Finalist) University of DallasAlso accepted to Tulane University (Honors Program); Louisiana State University; Spring Hill College; St. Louis University; St. Edward’s University (Honors Program); University of Oklahoma (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; National Merit Scholarship Corporation Finalist Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; St. Edward’s University Trustees Distinguished

Achievement Scholarship; St. Louis University Vice President’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Tulane University Presidential Award; University of Dallas National Merit Finalist Scholarship; University of Oklahoma National Merit Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Jacob Mark Jarrett Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of New OrleansScholarships offered — University of New Orleans Tchoupitoulas Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award

Jacob Aaron Jeanfreau Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University Chicago; Spring Hill College; University of Colorado at Boulder; Tulane UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University Chicago Damen Scholarship and Jesuit Heritage Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Tulane University Academic Achievement Award

Alex Anthony Jennings University of Southern MississippiScholarships offered — University of Southern Mississippi Regional Scholarship

Christopher Scott Johnson Texas A&M University at GalvestonAlso accepted to Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — American Italian Federation of the Southeast Joseph Maselli Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Nicholas Andrew Johnson(National Merit Finalist; National Achievement Scholarship Program Honoree)Georgia Institute of Technology Also accepted to Purdue University (Honors Program); Louisiana State University (Honors College)Scholarships offered — Georgia Institute of Technology Provost’s Scholarship and National Achievement Finalist Scholarship; Purdue University Trustees Scholar; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and College of Engineering Pegues Scholarship; Teagle Foundation Scholarship Honorary Winner; New Orleans Order of Elks and Louisiana Order of Elks Scholarships; TOPS Honors Award

Todd Bennett Johnson University of AlabamaAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Texas Christian UniversityScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Award

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Tyler Bryan Johnson Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Texas Christian University (Honors Program); University of Mississippi; Rhodes College; Spring Hill College (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Rhodes College Presidential Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Texas Christian University Dean’s Scholarship; University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

LeRoid Edwin Jones, Jr. United States Merchant Marine AcademyAlso accepted to United States Coast Guard Academy; Houston Baptist University; The Catholic University of America; St. John’s University; Baylor UniversityScholarships offered — Baylor University Merit Scholarship; Catholic University of America CUA Scholarship; Houston Baptist Academic Scholarship; United States Coast Guard Appointment; United States Merchant Marine Academy Appointment

William John KallenbornLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; University of MississippiScholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Kyle Robert KellerLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; Tulane University; University of New Orleans; Spring Hill College Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; Loyola University New Orleans Business Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Michael Francis Kelley, Jr. Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Texas Christian University (Honors Program); University of Miami; Tulane University; St. Louis University; University of Alabama; Auburn University (Honors Program); Fordham University; University of Southern California Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; Texas Christian University Dean’s Scholarship; University of Miami Dickinson Scholarship; St. Louis University Dean’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; University of Alabama University Scholar; Auburn University Academic Heritage Scholarship; Fordham University Academic Scholarship; Tulane University Academic Achievement Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Nicholas Ryan KerthLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Anthony Randall KientzLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University

Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Honors Award

Bryan James KittoLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

William Mason KlareUniversity of Louisiana at LafayetteAlso accepted to Louisiana Tech University

Cody Christian KlundtUniversity of Southern MississippiScholarships offered — University of Southern Mississippi Regional Scholarship

Steven Peter KnechtUniversity of Southern MississippiAlso accepted to Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — University of Southern Mississippi University Scholarship and Regional Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; TOPS Honors Award

Garred Michael KochLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Honors Award

Brett Thomas LaCourUniversity of Southern MississippiAlso accepted to Louisiana Tech UniversityScholarships offered — University of Southern Mississippi Regional Scholarship

Benjamin Peter LandrieuUniversity of MississippiAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Loyola University New Orleans; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Mississippi State UniversityScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Taylor Villere LapeyreLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; Spring Hill CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Adam Joseph LaufLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Joseph Guy LaVeniaLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Jake Ellwood Lawson IIISpring Hill CollegeAlso accepted to Regis University; Santa Fe University of Art & Design; Louisiana State University; University of New OrleansScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award and Academic Achievement Award; Regis University Achievement Award and St. John Francis Regis Award; Santa Fe University of Art and Design Merit Scholarship; University of New Orleans Jackson Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Brandon Anthony LeBlancLoyola University New OrleansAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Louisiana State University; University of New OrleansScholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; University of New Orleans Tchoupitoulas Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Jonathan Matthew Bauer LeeLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Tulane University; University of GeorgiaScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Grant Alexander LegerAuburn UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; University of MississippiScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Jacob Robert LeithmanLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Texas Christian University; University of Mississippi (Honors Program); Christian Brothers UniversityScholarships offered — University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Scholarship; Christian Brothers University Academic Merit Scholarship, Jenne-Micek Engineering Scholarship, and Catholic High School Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Marcel Emile Leveque IIIUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette (Honors Program)Also accepted to Spring Hill College; University of New OrleansScholarships offered — University of Louisiana at Lafayette Academic Scholarship; Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

Myles Corrigan LewisLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Athletic Golf Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award

Salvador Roland Maffei(National Merit Finalist)University of Miami (Honors Program)Also accepted to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Early Action); University of Texas at Austin; Tulane University (Honors Program, Early Action); Penn State University (Honors Program); Villanova University (Honors Program, Early Action); Boston University (Honors Program); Boston College (Honors Program, Early Action); Auburn University (Honors Program); Emory University; Baylor University (Honors Program); Case Western Reserve University (Early Action)Scholarships offered — University of Miami Isaac Bashevis Singer Scholarship; Tulane University Presidential Award; Penn State University Schreyer Honors College Scholarship; Auburn University Presidential Scholarship; Villanova University

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Villanova Scholarship; Boston University Academic Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

David Michael MahoneyLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Alabama; Spring Hill College; Tulane University; Oklahoma State University; Mississippi State University; Auburn University; United States Merchant Marine AcademyScholarships offered — United States Merchant Marine Academy Appointment; Oklahoma State University Academic Achievement Scholarship; Mississippi State University Freshman Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Tuition Scholarship; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; Auburn University Auburn Spirit Foundation Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Prudhvi MandavaTulane UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; Akron University; Kent State University; Youngstown UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Kent State University Scholars Award; TOPS Honors Award

Evan Anthony MartinSoutheastern Louisiana University

Matthew Thomas Martin(National Merit Finalist)University of Texas at Dallas (Honors Program)Also accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); Auburn University (Honors Program, Early Action); Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Washington University in St. Louis; Rhodes College (Early Action); New College of Florida (Early Action); Case Western Reserve University (Early Action); Colorado School of Mines (Early Action); University of Tulsa (Early Action); Georgia Institute of Technology (Early Action); Furman University; Florida Institute of Technology (Early Action)Scholarships offered — University of Texas at Dallas Academic Excellence Scholarship for National Merit Scholars; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Science Honors Scholarship; Auburn University Academic Presidential Scholarship; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Leadership Award; Rhodes College University Scholarship and Rhodes Grant; New College of Florida Academic Scholarship; Case Western Reserve University Academic Scholarship and Grant; Colorado School of Mines Merit Scholarship; University of Tulsa Academic Scholars Award and Vision Scholarship; Furman University Achiever Scholarship; Florida Institute of Technology Merit Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Ian William David MattixLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Seth Louis MayeuxLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Louisiana at Lafayette; University of Louisiana at MonroeScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Dylan Michael McCafferyLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Kyle James McConnellPalm Beach Atlantic University (Honors Program)Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans (Honors Program); Taylor UniversityScholarships offered — Palm Beach Atlantic University Merit Award, Residence Life Award, and Palm Beach Atlantic Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholar; Taylor University Faculty Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Michael Joseph McKayUniversity of GeorgiaAlso accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); Texas Christian University (Early Action)Scholarships offered — Texas Christian University Faculty Scholarship; Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Sean Bernard McKendrickUniversity of OregonAlso accepted to Willamette University; Loyola University New Orleans; Portland State University Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Willamette University Academic Leadership Award and Jason Lee Award; TOPS Performance Award

Connor James McMahonTexas Christian UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Edward Richardson McMullenUniversity of Louisiana at LafayetteAlso accepted to University of Alabama; University of Houston

Daniel Joseph MerrittFranciscan University of SteubenvilleAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered — Franciscan University of Steubenville Academic Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award

Samuel Austin MerrittSt. Joseph Seminary CollegeAlso accepted to Tulane University; Loyola University New Orleans; Louisiana State University (Honors College); Franciscan University of SteubenvilleScholarships offered — Franciscan University of Steubenville Chancellor’s Scholarship; Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Ryan Joseph MiglioreTulane UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; Louisiana State University; Spring Hill CollegeScholarships offered — Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Anthony Joseph Militello IIILouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Michael Terrell Moffatt, Jr.Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; University of Southern Mississippi; University of AlabamaScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; University of Southern Mississippi Regional Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Matthew William MoldthanTulane UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); Spring Hill College; Loyola University ChicagoScholarships offered — Tulane University Academic Achievement Award and Mayoral Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Spring Hill College Tuition Exchange Award; TOPS Honors Award

Kevin Patrick MonjureLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Timothy Joseph Mooney IIUniversity of AlabamaAlso accepted to Auburn University; Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Jacob Damian Moore(National Merit Finalist)Vanderbilt UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of Alabama (Honors Program); Auburn University (Honors Program); St. Louis University; Washington University in St. Louis; Purdue University (Honors Program); Northwestern University; Catholic University of America (Honors Program); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Boston UniversityScholarships offered — Vanderbilt University National Merit Finalist Scholarship; Purdue University Trustee Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Summer Study Abroad Fellowship; Auburn University Academic Presidential Scholarship; St. Louis University Vice-Presidential Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Northwestern University Northwestern Scholarship; Catholic University of America Catholic University Scholarship; Washington University in St. Louis Mesmer Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

John Russel MorseTulane University (Early Action)Scholarships offered — TOPS Honors Award

Robert Joseph MullerLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Christopher Michael Munna(National Merit Finalist)Auburn UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors

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College); Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Alabama (Honors Program); University of Florida (Honors Program); Baylor University (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Tulane University John Hainkel Scholarship; Louisiana State University Chancellor’s Alumni Scholarship; Baylor University President’s Gold Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Evan Patrick MurphyOhio State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — The Ohio State University Fred Gump Scholarship and National Buckeye Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Scott Patrick NaccariSoutheastern Louisiana UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Southeastern Louisiana University Honor Scholarship, Housing Scholarship, and Progression Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Jay Michael Napolitano, Jr.Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Alabama; Spring Hill CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

Austin Chandler NaremoreLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Tulane University; Spring Hill College Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; Tulane University Leadership Award; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

Alexander James NayLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Clemson University; University of Georgia; Fordham University; Spring Hill College (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

Kim Hoang Nguyenxavier University of Louisiana

Matthew Thang Viet NguyenUniversity of New OrleansAlso accepted to Xavier University of Louisiana; Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Paul Van NguyenLoyola University New OrleansAlso accepted to University of New Orleans; Louisiana State University; Xavier University of LouisianaScholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; University of New Orleans Carondolet Scholarship; Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Joshua Alton NixLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Baylor University (Honors Program); University of Wisconsin (Madison); University of IllinoisScholarships offered — Baylor University Academic Merit-Based Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Stephen Michael Noya(National Hispanic Scholar; National Merit Program Commended Student)Tulane UniversityAlso accepted to Fordham University (Early Action); Sewanee: The University of the South; Hendrix College; Furman University (Early Action); University of Miami (Early Action); Auburn University (Honors Program); Loyola University New Orleans; Rhodes College (Early Action); Louisiana State University (Honors College)Scholarships offered — Tulane University Mayoral Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Jesuit Identity Award; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; Hendrix College Odyssey Honors and Distinction Award; University of Miami University Scholarship and Coral Gables Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Ryan Frederick NunenmacherUniversity of New OrleansAlso accepted to University of Southern Mississippi; University of Mississippi; University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Tyler Vincent NuzzoUniversity of Southern MississippiScholarships offered — University of Southern Mississippi Leadership Scholarship, Golden Opportunity Scholarship, and Regional Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Casey Daniel ObermeyerLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Austin James OsborneBaylor UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; University of Alabama; University of Mississippi; Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — Baylor University Provost’s Gold Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

David Michael Perrault IIxavier University of LouisianaAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — Xavier University of Louisiana Xavier Scholarship; Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

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Ignace Arthur Perrin IVLoyola University New OrleansAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Louisiana State University; Millsaps CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Millsaps College Millsaps Award; TOPS Performance Award

Christopher Michael PettusLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Nick Sullivan PharisLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Alabama; SUNY Maritime CollegeScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Thomas James Piglia IIILouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of New Orleans; Loyola University New Orleans; University of Louisiana at LafayetteScholarships offered — University of New Orleans Tchoupitoulas Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award

Albaro Antonio Pineda IILouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Loyola

University New OrleansScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Clayton Peter PonsetiSpring Hill CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Award

Charles Henry Luzenberg Pratt(National Merit Finalist)University of AlabamaAlso accepted to Sewanee: The University of the South; University of Richmond; Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Virginia; Georgetown University; Fordham University (Honors Program); University of Alabama (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Tulane University Presidential Award; Sewanee: The University of the South Ecce Quam Bonum Award; Fordham University Fordham Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Ryan Nicholas PrejeanSpring Hill College Also accepted to Trinity University (Early Action); Baylor University (Early Action); Louisiana Tech University (Early Action); Texas Christian

University (Early Action); Loyola University NewOrleans (Early Action); Southern Methodist University (Early Action); Samford University (Early Action); University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Early Action); Belmont University (Early Action) Scholarships offered — Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Trinity University President’s Scholarship; Baylor University President’s Gold Scholarship; Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Board of Supervisors Scholarship; Texas Christian University Faculty Scholarship; Belmont University Merit Scholarship; Southern Methodist University Distinguished Scholar and Engineering Fellows Scholarship; Samford University Academic Scholarship; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Academic Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Joel Michael PriezLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Jonathan Robert PrindleLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Baylor UniversityScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Marcel Paul Provensal(National Merit Program Commended Student)University of Tennessee (Honors Program)

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Also accepted to Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Alabama; Georgia Institute of Technology; Baylor University; Purdue University; Louisiana State University; University of MississippiScholarships offered — University of Tennessee Out-of-State Excellence Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship and Engineering Leadership Scholarship; Baylor University President’s Gold Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Scholarship; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; TOPS Honors Award

Stephen Daniel RaggioLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of New Orleans; University of Louisiana at LafayetteScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Jeremy Patrick RandazzoLoyola University New OrleansAlso accepted to Spring Hill College; Oglethorpe University; Baylor University; St. Louis University; Furman University; St. John’s University; Louisiana State University; University of AlabamaScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Baylor University Dean’s Gold Scholarship; Oglethorpe University Oxford Scholarship; St. Louis University Jesuit High School Award; TOPS Opportunity Award

Ryan Parsons RedfearnUniversity of Georgia (Early Action)Also accepted to University of Mississippi; University of Alabama; Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Scholarship and Non-Resident Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; University of Alabama Sesquicentennial Alumni Honors and Mel Allen Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Matthew James RedmannLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Southeastern Louisiana University; Nicholls State University; University of Louisiana at Lafayette; University of New OrleansScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Jordan Blaze RetifLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Dylan Michael RichardLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Alabama; University of Southern Mississippi; University of Louisiana at LafayetteScholarships offered — Southern Mississippi Golden Opportunity Scholarship; Louisiana Independent Tire Dealers Association Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Jon Patrick RichardsLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Dray Prescott RichmondLouisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Tulane UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Patrick Thomas RileyLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

John Derek Rose(National Merit Finalist)Tulane University (Honors Program)Also accepted to University of Alabama (Honors Program); New York University; University of Miami (Honors Program); Loyola University New Orleans; Seattle University; University of San Diego; Fordham University; University of Southern California; Santa Clara University; University of South FloridaScholarships offered — Tulane University Dean’s Honor Scholarship and National Merit Finalist Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Jesuit Identity Award; Fordham University Fordham Scholarship; University of Miami University Scholarship and Gables Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Joseph Philip RussoLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Louisiana at Lafayette; Spring Hill College; School of the Art Institute of ChicagoScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Ignatian Jesuit Award; School of the Art Institute of Chicago Merit Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Patrick Coogan RyanUniversity of WashingtonAlso accepted to University of Maryland; Louisiana State University; University of Mississippi; University of Alabama Scholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

William Connor Ryan(National Merit Finalist)University of Notre DameAlso accepted to Georgetown University; University of Virginia; Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Georgia (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — University of Notre Dame National Merit Finalist Scholarship and University Scholarship; Georgetown University Bellarmine Scholarship; Tulane University Presidential Award; TOPS Honors Award

Matthew Alexander Sanchez(National Hispanic Scholar; National Merit Program Commended Student)Auburn University (Honors Program)Also accepted to University of Alabama; Villanova University; Clemson University; Lehigh UniversityScholarships offered — Auburn University National Scholars Presidential Scholarship; Villanova University Villanova Scholarship; Clemson University Out-of-State Academic Scholarship; University of Alabama Presidential Scholarship and Engineering Leadership Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Gregory John SchwingSpring Hill CollegeAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; TOPS Opportunity Award

Stewart Hopkins ScogginLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Kevin Alden SeayUniversity of Dallas Also accepted to Millsaps College (Early Action); Loyola University New Orleans; Centenary College of Louisiana; St. Edward’s University (Early Action); Louisiana State University (Honors College); Trinity University; Texas Christian University (Honors Program, Early Action); St. Louis University (Early Action) Scholarships offered — University of Dallas President’s Scholarship; St. Louis University Vice President’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; St. Edward’s University Trustees Distinguished Achievement Scholar; Texas Christian University Dean’s Scholarship; Trinity University President’s Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Owen Roche Seiler, Jr.Louisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Spring Hill CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; TOPS Performance Award

Brandon Patrick ShearmanDelgado Community CollegeAlso accepted to University of New Orleans; Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Business Scholarship; Delgado Community College Merit Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Andrew Thomas SigleLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Joseph Vincent SignorelliCentenary CollegeAlso accepted to Centenary College of LouisianaScholarships offered — Centenary College of Louisiana Academic Merit Scholarship

Andrew Michael SilveraLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; Tulane UniversityScholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Brandon Sutton Slay(National Merit Finalist)University of Alabama (Honors Program)Also accepted to Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of Georgia (Honors Program);

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Tulane University; Clemson University; University of MiamiScholarships offered — University of Alabama Presidential National Merit Finalist Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship; University of Georgia Charter Scholarship; University of Miami Dickinson Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Keiffer Ellis SmithLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Kendrick Kendell SmithLaSalle UniversityAlso accepted to University of Scranton; Kings College; Seton Hall University; Drew University; St. Peter’s College; Loyola University New Orleans; Northwestern State UniversityScholarships offered — La Salle University St. John the Baptist de La Salle Grant; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Drew University Dean’s Award; Kings College Christi Regis Scholarship; St. Peter’s College Arrupe Award

Brian Matthew SmuckLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Austin Paul Thomas Speaker(National Merit Program Commended Student)Southern Methodist UniversityAlso accepted to Tulane University; Loyola University Chicago; Marquette University; Rhodes College; Fordham University; Centre College; University of San Francisco; Louisiana State University (Honors College); Xavier University; Spring Hill College (Honors Program); Loyola University New Orleans (Honors Program); St. Louis University; Loyola University Maryland; Boston University; College of the Holy CrossScholarships offered — Southern Methodist University Provost’s Scholar; Marquette University Ignatius Academic Distinction Scholarship, Magis Award, and Jesuit High School Scholarship; Rhodes College Rhodes Award; Fordham University Loyola Scholarship; Centre College Colonel Scholarship and Legacy Award; University of San Francisco President’s Merit Award; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; Xavier University Schawe Scholarship and Xavier Jesuit Heritage Award; Loyola University Chicago Presidential Scholarship and Jesuit Heritage Award; St. Louis University Vice President Tuition Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship and Tulane Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

Parker Anthony SprouseLouisiana Tech UniversityAlso accepted to University of New Orleans

Andrew Edward StahelLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Honors Award

Kenneth Curtis SteeleLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Tulane University; Loyola University New Orleans; Spring Hill College; St. Louis University; University of Mississippi; Millsaps CollegeScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; St. Louis University Dean’s Tuition Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; University of Mississippi Academic Excellence Award and Residence Award; Millsaps College Second Century Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Thomas Lalla Steen(National Merit Finalist)University of VirginiaAlso accepted to Auburn University; Louisiana State University (Honors College); Tulane University (Honors Program); University of Texas at AustinScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award; TOPS Honors Award

Reese James TempletTulane University Also accepted to Loyola University New Orleans Scholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Eric Matthew TheriotUniversity of Louisiana at LafayetteScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Andrew Michael ThomasLoyola University New OrleansAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; University of Louisiana at LafayetteScholarships offered — Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award and Loyola Grant; TOPS Opportunity Award

Scott Lyden TiltonBoston CollegeAlso accepted to George Washington University; Catholic University of America; Tulane University; Rhodes College; Fordham University; Boston UniversityScholarships offered — Catholic University of America Catholic University Scholarship; Rhodes College Rhodes Award; George Washington University Presidential Academic Scholarship; Fordham University Fordham Jogues Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Gregory Michael TortorichLouisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to University of San Francisco; Hendrix College; Trinity University; St. Louis University; Furman University; Spring Hill College; University of San Diego; Wofford College; Rhodes CollegeScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; University of San Francisco President’s Merit Award; Hendrix College Academic Scholarship and Odyssey Honors and Distinction Award for Professional and Leadership Development; Trinity University President’s Scholarship; St. Louis University Dean’s

Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Furman University Achiever Scholarship; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award and Academic Achievement Award; University of San Diego Presidential Scholar; Wofford College Wofford Merit Scholarship; Rhodes College Presidential Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Mark Vincent TortorichTulane UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; Louisiana Scholars’ College (Early Action)Scholarships offered — Tulane University Distinguished Scholar’s Award, Legislative Scholarship, and Tulane Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; Louisiana Scholars’ College Academic Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Tuan Hoang TranTulane UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — Tulane University Founder’s Scholarship and Tulane Scholarship; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Jody Charles-Earl TrapaniUniversity of New OrleansAlso accepted to University of Alabama; Loyola University New Orleans; Spring Hill College; Baylor University; St. John’s University; Louisiana State University; University of LouisvilleScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Baylor University Dean’s Gold Scholarship; St. John’s University Dean’s Grant; TOPS Opportunity Award

Shane Brady TroendleTexas A&M UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Texas A&M University Sallvian Rose Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Clayton Dreuil TuftsLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Catholic University of America (Early Action); Loyola University New Orleans; Texas Christian University (Early Action); George Mason University (Early Action)Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Loyola University New Orleans Recognition Award; Catholic University of America Catholic University Scholarship, Alumni Grant, and Parish Scholarship; George Mason University Mason Vision Grant; TOPS Honors Award

Joseph Anthony Tumminello, Jr.Texas Christian University (Early Action)Also accepted to Baylor University; Millsaps College; Louisiana State University; Rhodes College; University of Massachusetts at AmherstScholarships offered — Baylor University Dean’s Gold Scholarship; Millsaps College Second Century Scholarship; Wendy’s High School Heisman School Winner; Louisiana American Italian Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

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Matthew Joseph TusaSpring Hill CollegeAlso accepted to Franciscan University of Steubenville; Louisiana State University; Loyola University New Orleans; Thomas More CollegeScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Portier Jesuit Award; Loyola University New Orleans Loyola Scholarship; Franciscan University of Steubenville Academic Scholarship; Thomas More College Dean’s Academic Scholar; TOPS Performance Award

Nicholas Ryan VariscoLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Nathan Patrick VicknairLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Furman University; St. Edward’s UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Furman University Achiever Scholarship; St. Edward’s University Trustees Scholar; TOPS Honors Award

Oliver Matthew VicknairLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Furman University; Rhodes College; St. Edward’s UniversityScholarships offered — St. Edward’s University Trustees Scholar; Rhodes College Rhodes Grant; TOPS Performance Award

Peyton Wilke VitterUniversity of Notre Dame (Early Action)Also accepted to Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Luke Anthony VoironDelgado Community College

Mark William von AlmenFordham UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New OrleansScholarships offered — Fordham University Loyola Scholarship and Tuition Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Andre Michael WaguespackLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Performance Award

Nicholas Joseph Wallbillich(National Merit Finalist)Auburn University (Honors Program)Also accepted to Emory University; Texas Christian University (Honors Program, Early Action); Southern Methodist University (Honors Program, Early Action); Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of Alabama (Honors Program); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Tulane University (Honors Program)Scholarships offered — Auburn University National Scholars Presidential Scholarship; Tulane University Presidential Award; Texas Christian University Dean’s Scholarship; Southern Methodist University Founder’s Scholarship; University of Alabama

Presidential Scholarship; Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Donald Francis Ward III(National Merit Finalist)Auburn University (Honors Program)Also accepted to University of Alabama (Early Action); Tulane University (Honors Program, Early Action); University of Miami (Honors Program, Early Action); Spring Hill College; St. Louis University (Early Action); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Early Action)Scholarships offered — Auburn University National Scholars Presidential Scholarship; Tulane University Presidential Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; St. Louis University Dean’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; University of Miami University Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

John-Michael WarrinerLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Miles Andre WatersLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to University of Mississippi; University of AlabamaScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

Taylor Michael WegenerLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Opportunity Award

David Eric Weidner, Jr.Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — TOPS Honors Award

Matthew Francis WhelanLouisiana State UniversityAlso accepted to Loyola University New Orleans; University of New Orleans; University of Louisiana at LafayetteScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; University of New Orleans Jackson Scholarship; University of Louisiana at Lafayette Academic Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Kevin Patrick Whittaker(National Merit Finalist)Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Baylor University (Honors Program); Tulane University (Honors Program); Vanderbilt University; St. Louis University; College of William and Mary Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Flagship Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; St. Louis University Vice President’s Scholarship and Jesuit High School Award; Tulane University Dean’s Honor Scholarship Honorable Mention and Presidential Scholarship; Baylor University President’s Gold Scholarship and Invitation to Excellence Scholarship; TOPS Honors Award

Jake Romano WilkinsonLouisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

David Louis Williams, Jr.Texas A&M UniversityAlso accepted to Louisiana State University; The CitadelScholarships offered — Texas A&M Corps of Cadets Scholarship and JCAP Scholarship; TOPS Performance Award

Brady Ferrante WilliamsonDelgado Community CollegeScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Christopher George WinkerSoutheastern Louisiana University

Michael Joseph Yenni, Jr.Louisiana State UniversityScholarships offered — Louisiana State University Tiger Excellence Resident Award; TOPS Honors Award

Connor Scott YosteWillamette University (Early Action)Also accepted to Fordham University (Early Action); Hendrix College (Early Action); Loyola University New Orleans; Louisiana State University (Honors College); University of Puget Sound; Whitman CollegeScholarships offered — Willamette University Academic Leadership Award, Alumni Honors Scholarship, and Music Award; Loyola University New Orleans Dean’s Scholarship; Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award; University of Puget Sound President’s Scholarship and Music Scholarship; Fordham University Loyola Scholarship; Hendrix College Hendrix Award, Academic Scholarship, and Odyssey Distinction Award; TOPS Honors Award

John Michael Zazulak IISpring Hill CollegeAlso accepted to Lynchburg College; University of Louisiana at LafayetteScholarships offered — Spring Hill College Gautrelet Jesuit Award; Lynchburg College Alumni Award and Annual Scholarship Competition Winner

John William Zimmer III(National Merit Program Commended Student)Louisiana State University (Honors College)Also accepted to Tulane University; Spring Hill College (Honors Program) Scholarships offered — Louisiana State University Academic Scholars Resident Award and Chancellor’s Student Aide Award; Tulane University Academic Achievement Award; Spring Hill College Presidential Jesuit Award; TOPS Honors Award

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It looks like this will be the last time that I get up here and feel this rich mahogany podium. So let’s make it memorable. Your experiences here are completely determined by the choices that you make. Do not fall into the trap of apathy. When I say “trap of apathy,” some of you may not be sure exactly what I am talking about. Well, let me help you.

Going to school here for five years, every one of the seniors, including myself, have at least come to school and just drifted through the halls like a ghost. We didn’t care about anything that was going on around us. The reason that it’s so easy to do this is because we can just ride on the coattails of Jesuit.

Going to Jesuit, we all hear so much about our school’s illustrious history. In my five years here, I had the numbers 18-47 burned into my brain. And we hear so much about our alumni. I can’t tell you how many times I heard that the man who invented the ATM went to Jesuit.

And because of that history, it can be so easy to feel like nothing we do here will ever matter, that it won’t amount to anything in the big scheme of things, and that your actions cannot affect Jesuit’s reputation. But if we simply hang back and go off of reputation alone, this school becomes a big building, a hollow shell with empty halls.

Once you’ve fallen into the trap of apathy, it’s almost impossible to get out. The rules start to become oppressive, and you lose the desire to change the way you act or feel about Jesuit. I know that on a Friday afternoon, it is so much easier to just go home after a long day of school and pass out on your bed for three hours, instead of getting up and going to one of the Jesuit games.

But, don’t let apathy wipe away your spirit. Do not use our history and the school rules as an excuse to sit back and do nothing. If that happens, our school will only exist in the past and it will have no future. We, the students gathered right here, right now are an integral part of Jesuit. Without us, there would not be

anyone to teach the school’s history to and to carry it on. We make up the backbone of Jesuit High School, even

though it may be hard to believe, especially when you’re sitting in P.H. on a Friday afternoon — all because you forgot to bring a note that said you were sick on Thursday. But without us there would not be a Jesuit. With this fact comes a great responsibility. We have the responsibility to create our own past for Jesuit. We must add to that history and make it even better.

The trap of apathy does not apply merely to Jesuit, but it applies to your entire life. Don’t fall into the trap of apathy. In this year, we have done our history proud and we did a pretty good job of avoiding that trap of apathy.

This year, we set a school record of eight district championships — baseball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, swimming, tennis, and track — each brought home the district title. Our cross country, golf, tennis, swimming, and baseball teams won state championships. Swimming even won the state title by one point. Our club teams also had a great year. Lacrosse and rugby won district and rugby went on to win state. The Blue Jay won several awards, including Best Newspaper at the Silver Scribe Awards. The Philelectic Society put on two incredible plays, and the band, yet again, went undefeated in their season.

Even with all of the spirit and enthusiasm we had this year, there is so much more that we can do. You can decide to be the guy who does the bare minimum, who never really gets out and participates, or you can be the guy who actually cares, who makes his four or five years a positive experience that he remembers for the rest of his life.

Make this school the best place it can be. Do not fall into the trap of apathy. n

—Chip Arnold Student Council President

Class of 2011

Avoid the Trap of Apathy

Once you’ve fallen into the trap of apathy, it’s

almost impossible to get out. The rules start to

become oppressive, and you lose the desire to

change the way you act or feel about Jesuit.

—Chip Arnold ’11, Student Council President

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PRINCIPAL’S CORNER

Having just completed my 10th year as principal, I would think that I have seen it all in terms of the successes Jesuit has achieved as a school. Nothing could be further from the truth. Year in and year out, our students enjoy the fruits of their hard work and commitment by earning admission into the country’s finest colleges and universities. They continue to garner academic, athletic, and artistic accolades in a myriad of curricular and co-curricular activities and organizations. But each school year has its own unique “blend” of student and institutional successes. I offer here a taste of what the 2010-2011 year “blended” for the Jesuit High School community. Any mention of the 2010-11 academic year must include the fact that this was Fr. McGinn’s last year as president of Jesuit High School. Fr. McGinn has done a masterful job serving 19 years as president, and his legacy will be long-lasting in many ways. Fr. McGinn, an alumnus of the Class of 1966, rightfully will take his place among the most loyal and skilled stewards in the history of Jesuit High School. We are excited about our new president, Fr. Raymond Fitzgerald, leading us to even greater heights as we seek

ways to maximize Jesuit’s effectiveness in fulfilling its mission for the benefit of our students. Fr. Fitzgerald is also a Jesuit alumnus of the Class of 1976. Our faculty’s deepening involvement in RBT (Research for Better Teaching) over the last two years certainly has made us more effective in delivering the mission of Jesuit High School for our students. The faculty’s involvement with RBT has been phenomenal in deepening its professional practice in the classroom, specifically through the development of instructional techniques that increase students’ cognitive engagement in the work being done. And the recommendations that were generated during the “AdvancED” accreditation process last December will help us to continue to improve as a school. While our faculty’s work with RBT has increased the quality of what is happening in the classroom, the completion of John Ryan Stadium, Jesuit’s first ever off-site athletic facility, will increase the effectiveness of many of our athletic teams by providing them with a location to call their own. That is why the capital campaign to raise the funds for this much-needed facility is called “Home

2010-2011: The Year in ReviewJesuit High School is blessed that its faculty and students experienced a successful school year in 2010 – 2011, a year which has yielded many highlights.

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We have so much to be thankful for at Jesuit High School. We are so blessed to have a great student body, a committed faculty and staff, supportive parents, loyal alumni, a school with wonderful traditions, and friends who want only the best for us.

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Field Advantage.” It is a testament to the hard work and commitment of our student-athletes and coaches over the years that they have achieved their successes without the benefit of a “home field advantage.” Speaking of athletic successes, our sports’ programs broke a school record by earning eight district championships. In total, we claimed five state championships, three state runners-up trophies, and one fourth place state finish. Add to that total a state championship in the club sport of rugby and a semifinal appearance in the club sport of lacrosse, and the result is a fabulously successful athletic year. We are so thankful for the hard work, commitment, and team work of our student-athletes as well as their many coaches, all of whom embrace the goals that enable our young men to succeed. Not to be outdone by our athletic successes, numerous academic co-curricular organizations also had a tremendously successful year. The Mock Trial team won the district, regional, and state championship for the third year in a row, earning a place in the national tournament where the team went 2-2 against top champions from other states. Our Varsity Quiz Bowl team earned state championship honors for the third year in a row, and three different teams made it to the finals in national competitions. No other high school has ever accomplished such a feat. Many students on our debate, academic games, and Mu Alpha Theta teams also earned accolades in numerous local, district, and national competitions. Earning accolades for improvements suggested by students and faculty alike were two events — one new, one old. For many years now, candidates for the student council executive board have made speeches to the student body as part of the voting process. But several segments of the school community had become concerned over the years, and rightfully so, that many of these speeches were nothing more than stand-up comedian contests to generate the most laughs from the audience. Much more was desired. Thus, after a series of meetings among all concerned, the process was

revised this past year and the quality of the speeches in April was much more on target and what our student body deserved. The Big “J” Read is a wonderful community event that expanded this past year with the offering of books of various genres so that everyone participating — students, teachers, parents, and staff — had a choice of seven books to read over summer. Almost 500 Blue Jays took part in the 2010-11 project, most of whom earned extra class credit. The 2011-2012 Big “J” Read will offer books from eight different genres. In response to suggestions from various segments of our school community, we created four new events or projects. First, a mock car accident was staged in the school yard for juniors and seniors. The realistic scene was a powerful event for our students to see actual Jesuit students acting the roles of teenagers seriously hurt and/or killed in a motor vehicle crash caused by a driver impaired from drinking alcohol. Secondly, we have established an anti-bullying hotline for students to report bullying anonymously. We are aware that this type of abuse occurs on campus and that some students are reluctant to report this behavior for various reasons. Jesuit will not tolerate bullying and encourages those who feel they have been harassed or intimidated to speak out via this hotline. The hotline number is 504-483-3913. Thirdly, for many years we have heard students, parents, and faculty urge us to implement service over and above the senior graduation requirement of 100 hours. We did create a new requirement this year for sophomores. It involves every sophomore selecting one Saturday to perform service work in the local community. Finally, we created this year a survey for our rising freshmen and their parents to give feedback on various aspects of the school. This survey, along with the existing surveys in junior and senior years, should give us valuable feedback for all the different ways we can maximize Jesuit High School’s effectiveness in guiding our students — your sons — to fulfilling the mission of the school.AMDG n — Mike Giambelluca ’82

View photo galleries of several events that took place during the 2010-11 school year: http://www.jesuitnola.org/extra/Event_Photos_Archive_for_Students_2010_2011_08311.htm.

2010-2011: The Year in ReviewJesuit High School is blessed that its faculty and students experienced a successful school year in 2010 – 2011, a year which has yielded many highlights.

Jesuit’s baseball team won the 2011 state championship, one of five athletic teams to bring home state titles.

Below, service projects remain an integral part of a Blue Jay’s education.

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CLASS OF 1994 (His second commencement address was the first one published in a 1994 issue of  Jaynotes and is printed here in its entirety.)The ceremony we are about to conclude is intended to help you and your parents to say goodbye. This is not a farewell to Jesuit High School. We want you and your parents to continue to feel a deep sense of connection with the Jesuit family. We are helping you to say good-bye to a period of your life you can never again relive. Life is about changes, and nothing ever stays the same. We hope and pray that Jesuit has prepared you not simply to accept changes passively but become active in making changes. What you learned and experienced should help you change yourself so you can meet your daily challenges. Every day we face the struggle between our desire for comfort and our calling to make a difference in the world. We cannot respond to that challenge if we do not change, if we do not grow, if we refuse to give up our comfort. Change and growth are painful and uncomfortable. The last five years of your life testify to that principle. What you have tonight, what you celebrate tonight, did not come easily. The demand for comfort is the greatest enemy of human progress. It deafens our ears to our call to greatness; it numbs our senses of touch and connection with others; it blinds us to injustice. Your calling is to change yourselves daily so you can use your powers and gifts to help others to grow, to help our city, our nation, our society to change. When you meet for your twentieth, thirtieth, or fortieth class reunion, inevitably someone will say about someone else, “He hasn’t changed since high school.” On a superficial level that may be a compliment about one’s appearance. But on a deeper

level, you don’t want someone to say that you haven’t changed in twenty-five years. All of Jesuit education prepares you for the end, the most important of all changes. We shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. At that moment we shall account for how we have changed and for what we have changed. We must not change our principles, our quest for what is right and what is excellent. That quest is embodied in the words of the Jesuit Alma Mater which you will sing for the first time as Jesuit alumni. How can we help you to say good-bye? By leaving you with the conviction that growth is change, by deepening your commitment to what is right over what is convenient. This is what we expect of you, our alma mater’s gallant fighting sons.

CLASS OF 1995As you leave Jesuit High School tonight you may be asking about the roads that lie ahead. There are many, and none may seem clear. You may be asking what does it take to be the happy and productive man you are called to become. Be suspicious of the easy choices. You have been given great gifts. You are capable of making the harder choices and living by your commitments. If you are to live your life for all it’s worth, be convinced of your strength and beware of the seduction of comfort, convenience, status, and approval.

CLASS OF 1996During the past seventy years, dramatic change has occurred in what our society considers important. From the time of our beginning as a people until this century, writers who gave advice

Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J. wrote and delivered 19 commencement addresses during his tenure as president of Jesuit High School. He first

spoke to the Class of 1993 and, of course, his final address (published in its entirety on page 1) was last May to the Class of 2011.

There exists a common thread of peculiarity in many of Fr. McGinn’s commencement addresses. He enjoyed an unconventional approach to writing his speech for the momentous occasion at hand. A fan of country music, Fr. McGinn loosely based his commencement addresses on the assorted emotional ingredients found in songs of this genre. He successfully accomplished this in a style that was subtle, amusing, intellectual, and imaginative, although there are some Blue Jays reading this who, undoubtedly, would chalk it up simply as a quirk.

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on personal success emphasized virtues such as integrity, fidelity, courage, temperance, humility, and modesty. After the First World War, the basic view of success in America changed from the character ethic to the personality ethic. Success is seen today more as a function of personality, public relations, interpersonal skills, and the right attitudes.

I challenge you not to judge by appearances, but to look deeper. What is pleasant, comfortable, and uplifting may not always be right. Our fellowship as Jesuit alumni is a great fraternity, but it is no substitute for character. Rhetoric about bleeding blue and white is no substitute for integrity.

CLASS OF 1997How will you look back upon your days at Jesuit? How will you answer the question, “Grandpa, tell us about the good old days?” Will you respond by naming the great friends that stayed loyal and supported you through five decades?

Will you focus on the competence and character you developed? Will you tell about how you became a trustworthy man?

Will you emphasize that you learned to keep promises and stand loyal to principle?

Will you say that you learned that a man does not run away from difficult choices?

Will you answer that you became confident enough to know that disappointments become disasters only when we let them. Will you proudly state that you did not let ambition compromise your integrity? Will you express the conviction that true power is seen in self-control? CLASS OF 1998You and I are called each day to grow as men of integrity — to do what is right, not what is popular. Circumstances can take your popularity away from you, but you can never lose your integrity without your choice. As I said at the Baccalaureate, the Truth must be your greatest friend. We all must avoid the danger of arrogance that equates the truth with our narrow perspective. This is especially true if our vision is colored by our short-term goals. Develop and deepen your confidence in the gifts that God has given you, and every day grow in the conviction that nothing great is accomplished without sacrifice.

CLASS OF 1999The man of wisdom is independent and self-confident. He is tough on the inside so he can be tender on the outside. He can be compassionate and eager to understand others because he can trust himself and others. No matter how old we grow, there is a constant struggle between the spirit of a boy and the wisdom of a man. My prayer for you, our youngest alumni, and for all Jesuit graduates is that we always choose what is right. For there is so much riding on the choice — our future as a community, our future as a church, and our future as a nation. There is so much riding on your choices.

Fr. McGinn’s addresses featured advice articulated in consistently different ways. Among his favorite themes were integrity, truth, growing up, faith, love, hope, embracing change, accepting challenges, choosing wisely, and embracing God’s plan. In counseling graduates without scolding them, Fr. McGinn encouraged Blue Jays to use the gifts God gave them to affect positive change. He stressed the importance of avoiding petulance, self-pity, arrogance, boasting, lethargy, cynicism, and irresponsibility. When Fr. McGinn strode to the podium, whether on the stage in the Municipal Auditorium, the Saenger Theater, or (since Katrina) the Pontchartrain Center, it was not to deliver a homily or to preach, lecture, or reprimand. Rather, his addresses were straightforward, lucid, and always succinct — rare was a talk that exceeded six minutes. Fr. McGinn’s commencement addresses are as relevant, meaningful, and practical today as they were when he first delivered them. They are timeless. With the exception of his first commencement address to the Class of 1993 (it was not published in Jaynotes), excerpts of each of his subsequent talks constitute the “Annus Mirabilis” feature for this 2011 graduation issue of Jaynotes.

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CLASS OF 2000Oftentimes we want to avoid the truth. We may try to shape it and embellish it for our own purposes, but the truth reveals how God made us who we are. I present to you four principles of living; some of them may take a lifetime for one to appreciate fully. The first truth is that God has a plan for each of us. We are not autonomous. Each day God calls us to greater service… The second truth is that no one can make you feel inferior without your permission. All of the striving we do for approval and status gets us nowhere. Our value does not depend on what anyone else thinks about us. The person who is focused on the opinions of others is a cork tossed about in the ocean. Who I am is more important that what I have, or what I own, or what I can control…One of the greatest sources of personal unhappiness is perfectionism. It is the cross borne by those who cannot accept any human limitations — their own or those of others. The third truth is that happiness cannot be pursued because it is not somewhere outside of us. Our happiness is determined by our choices. Any disappointment can be magnified into a devastating catastrophe with the right amount of irrationality and petulance.

The final truth is that all of us, you and I, are capable of tremendous heroism and self-sacrifice, as well as tremendous self-indulgence. The choices you make today are critical not only for your own future but the future of your family, your children, and our community. God’s plan calls for us to make the right choices, the choices based on principle, not on our convenience or selfishness.

CLASS OF 2001We are at our best when we plan for the long term. Jesuit stands as a challenge to the culture of the persistent now, the cult of the immediate, that impatient longing to be satisfied without waiting. Jesuit believes in the long run, and Jesuit believes in you. We believe the best is yet to come. We trust that over the next thirty years you will make decisions according to your true destiny. Our confidence is based on the promise you have shown. The time horizon one chooses makes a tremendous difference in his life. Whether you choose thirty minutes, or thirty years, or eternity, your choice of entertainment will be different; your choice of companions will be different; your choice of a career will

be different. It affects how you deal with frustration and setbacks. Blessed indeed is the person who judges his frustrations in the context of his entire lifetime.

CLASS OF 2002Since there are no guarantees in life, disappointment is normal and is seldom catastrophic unless we choose it to be so. Take comfort in knowing that no one can find strength in his moments of weakness. Don’t hesitate to turn to some of these old faces for encouragement, especially in times of disappointment. Do not hesitate to share with these old faces your successes and joys. Please remember that the blue and white are with you, for you throughout all days of life.

CLASS OF 2003As you know, I am very impatient. I hate long sermons, long ceremonies, and long speeches. Like you I am the product of an impatient culture that measures value by the speed of delivery. We reluctantly bear the outrageous burden of having to wait. Whole industries have developed to give us what we want as instantaneously as possible. What percentage of technological innovations of the last 100 years has come about so we can get what we want faster and faster? Ever since you were age 8, you have been pressed and tempted to make choices for which you were not developmentally ready. Our impatient culture tells you that you really do not need a quality preparation for the responsibilities of adulthood. Just as you and I are impatient, Jesuit is an impatient place. You have experienced urgency of deadlines and the pressure to work within the constraints of time. Jesuit is impatient; it believes that a four-year undergraduate degree should be completed in four years. To do otherwise is to squander God’s gifts. On average you have only 60 years left. Don’t squander even one of them.

CLASS OF 2004Since I have the last word tonight, I will tell you what I hope you will most remember, especially in those moments of challenge that will inevitably come. The two things I want you to remember, the two things I have repeated time and again are “It’s all a gift” and “the truth is our best friend.” I assure you that you will live a happier life if you avoid arrogance and the illusion that you are the source of your strengths and that there ought to be no limit to your power. A rude awakening awaits you if you think that all of this is your achievement. Acknowledge the source of the gift. Never forget that this has been the school that has changed your life.

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19561951Reunions are the lifeblood of connection among the alumni of Jesuit High School. Every five years Blue Jays flock to be together to celebrate, well, being a Blue Jay. Some classes just cannot wait five years and choose to celebrate every year. Other classes, both veterans and newbies, are rekindling the Blue Jay Spirit at regular lunches. Whenever and wherever alumni gather, Blue Jay Spirit is there.

1946 kicked off the 2011 reunion season with a Tax Day get-together on April 15. Class leader Stanley McDermott organized a lunch gathering at the new Southern Yacht Club, where stories of “All the Tricks in ’46” abounded. 1951, too, enjoyed a lunch reception at the Yacht Club to celebrate their 60-year reunion. Longtime class leader and volunteer in Jesuit’s advancement office Hank Ecuyer chose July 15 for the festivities. 1956: Thanks to Pat White and his committee, these Blue Jays had quite a

lineup of activities to choose from in early June. Friday’s activities included golf, tennis, and a happy hour at Ted Borgman’s house. Saturday’s events included a family lunch at the Windsor Court and an evening stag reception at the Acme Oyster House in the French Quarter. Of course, Sunday was for a family Mass in the Chapel of the North American Martyrs followed by a family brunch at the New Orleans Country Club.

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19811961: Thanks to Mickey McGregor, all was golden for the Class of 1961 when they celebrated 50 years as Jesuit alumni.On Friday, May 27, these Jays chose to come home to enjoy a stag reception in the Student Commons. The ladies joined their Blue Jays on Saturday night for cocktails and dining at the Hotel Intercontinental. 1966: Mike Vesely was a workhorse in organizing the reunion events for his classmates, including outgoing president Anthony McGinn. John Ryan proved the gracious host as the Jays gathered at his house on a warm June Friday night for a stag reception. And Saturday night seemed to be a “throwback” evening when the couples gathered at the Jefferson Orleans South, just as they did back in ’66.

1971: With Mike Rodrigue as a class member, where else would the ’71 Jays celebrate than at the Acme Oyster House? And so on June 18 a seafood feast was had by all these Blue Jays at Mike’s storied French Quarter eatery. 1976 closed out the reunion season on a July weekend with events planned by Jim Tebbe and his committee. Acme Oyster House hosted another Jesuit stag reunion as the ’76ers made their way upstairs for a Friday seafood reception. On Saturday the vistas were beautiful when couples gathered for a buffet dinner at the Southern Yacht Club. 1981: These Blue Jays also chose the Acme Oyster House for their celebration — a seafood extravaganza for the guys only.

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1986: For their Silver Anniversary, the Class of 1986 flipped the usual with a couples reception on Friday, June 3 and a stag party the following night. On Friday evening the couples enjoyed the food, refreshments, beautiful views, and Blue Jay Spirit all present at the Westin Canal Place’s Plimsoll Club. On Saturday, after a late afternoon Mass on Jesuit’s campus, the guys met at Hard Rock Café to reminisce about life at Jesuit 25 years ago. 1991, too, flipped the traditional and opted for a Friday evening couples reception at the Southern Yacht Club. On Saturday evening the Jays made their way to the Rusty Nail in the Warehouse District for their celebration. 1996: The 15-year Jays chose to gather at the Hard Rock Café in the Quarter for a May 14 stag event.

2001: The Rusty Nail also was the gathering place on May 21 for a Saturday evening stag party for the 10-year Blue Jays. 2006: For their very first Jesuit reunion, these Blue Jays partied at Lucy’s in the Warehouse District. Reunion leader Max Gruenig organized the July 9 event at which he served tasty treats from his very own Koz’s Restaurant on Harrison Avenue.

View the photo galleries of the 2011 class reunions, as well as archived reunions dating back to 2002, on Jesuit’s web site: www.jesuitnola.org/alumni/reunions.htm.  Check out the 2012 Reunion Schedule on the back cover of this Jaynotes.

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Jimmy Fitzmorris, Jr. ’39 was honored last spring with the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame Laureate Luncheon.

Richard J. Daschbach ’54 was appointed chair and chief judge of the Employees’ Compensation Appeals Board by secretary of labor Hilda Solis. Before joining the board, he was a member of the New Hampshire Supreme Court attorney discipline system; a member of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Merchant Marine personnel advisory committee; and, a New Hampshire court appointed special advocate for abused and neglected children. He has also served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives. After Jesuit, he earned a BA in history and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University. Richard also runs fast — he is the current record holder in the 60-meter sprint for his age group in New Hampshire.

Robert Schroeder ’56 was recently re-elected Grand Knight for the Knights of Columbus Ludovicum Council 4663, which is based in St. Louis King of France Parish in Metairie.

Terrence Todd, S.J. ’58 hiked nearly 500 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Amicalola State Park in Georgia to Damascus, VA. He offers this challenge to his fellow Blue Jays: “All you seniors out there, just don’t sit at home in your rocker. Get out and do something.”

Mark Rodi ’59 and Wallace Paletou ’59 were recognized for their work in the real estate industry. Mark was named “Manager of the Year” and Wallace was selected “Affiliate of the Year” by the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors.

David Segrave ’59 and his wife Yvonne finished writing a gluten-free cookbook, “Go On with the Wine,” a Southerner’s guide to wine with food. The book is filled with fun facts and insights into traditions of Southern food.

Jack Dardis ’59, a registered representative of NEXT Financial Group, Inc., received the prestigious Integrity Award at the firm’s National Educational Conference in Houston. The recipient is selected by the president and senior management of the firm. The award is presented each year to only one NEXT representative who embodies the spirit of dedication and service to his clients, peers, profession, and community.

James Milam ’72 was elected trustee of the Illinois State Medical Society (ISMS). A board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist, James holds privileges at Lake Forest Hospital and Advocate Condell Medical Center, where he is a past president of the medical staff. His medical practice is located in Vernon Hills, IL. James has been, and continues to be, active in multiple levels of medicine.

Jim has been the recipient of Fluor’s three most prestigious awards for project excellence, sales, and account management. Jim and his wife, Susan Coward, live in Houston with their four children.

Michael Licali ’82 is working at Metairie Bank and Trust as chief credit officer.

Ricardo Rodriguez ’82 was recently installed as president of the Louisiana Orthopaedic Association, a statewide professional organization comprised of 350 doctors. Ricardo, who is a partner in the Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic, received his medical degree at Tulane University School of Medicine. He completed his orthopaedic residency at Tulane followed by a Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Ricardo is actively involved in the care of all age groups of patients with particular interest in knee, shoulder, and hip disorders. He has been chief of orthopaedic surgery at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Surgical Specialty Center in Baton Rouge. He also serves on the board of the Clinical Orthopaedic Society, the second oldest orthopaedic organization in the country, as well as the Arthritis Association of Louisiana.

David Martin ’83 continues his career in the healthcare services industry serving as CEO of a regional corporation while remaining involved in several civic and business organizations. He and his wife Jeannine live in Metairie with their four children — Georgian, Noah, David, and Samuel, who is a pre-freshman at Jesuit. David and his family are proud to be an active part of the rebirth and redevelopment of New Orleans.

Jesse Arceneaux, Jr. ’85 resides in Katy, TX, compliments of Katrina, but he manages to visit home frequently. “I’m working as a senior commodity accountant at Calpine Energy,” he writes.

David Dyer ’85 served a six-month deployment as the deputy district counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Afghanistan Engineer District – South in Kandahar.

Gordy Rush ’86 has joined the LSU Sports Radio Network and is serving as a sideline reporter for LSU football games. Gordy should feel quite comfortable on the LSU sideline since he played defensive back for the Tigers following his football career at Jesuit and subsequent graduation.

Dean Cochran ’87 enjoyed spending an afternoon watching his much-beloved New Orleans Saints practice in Oxnard, CA in anticipation of one of their pre-season games on the West Coast. Dean is an actor and director of post-production at Regency Films. He is living in Valencia, CA with his wife, Brandi, and their two-year-old daughter, Katie, who was born at 28 weeks,

He currently serves on the ISMS delegation to the American Medical Association (AMA). James is past president of the Lake County Medical Society as well as a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He received his medical degree from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara, Mexico. He completed residencies at St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Mount Sinai Hospital, Chicago, and Southern Illinois University School of Medicine.

Peter Holley ’75 is the medical attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu, the largest metropolitan city of Nepal. His three girls are attending college here in New Orleans, with the youngest enrolled at Loyola University. Pete enjoys swimming and listening to his old, but pristine, hi-fi stereo. “Make no mistake, there’s no place like New Orleans,” he writes.

Chris Jennings ’78 (right) was inducted into Nicholls State University’s Sports Hall of Fame for his significant contributions to the school’s basketball program as a player from

1978-1982. Chris currently serves as Jesuit’s head basketball coach and also teaches social studies. As a senior at Jesuit, Chris was one of the captains of the 1978 basketball team. Check out the “Coach and

the Player” photo gallery of Chris on Jesuit’s web site: http://www.jesuitnola.org/alumni/ChrisJennings78_NicholsHofF_101310.htm.

Albert Jay Redmon ’80 is a B737 Captain with Continental Airlines. Jay and his wife live in Magnolia, TX, where they opened their own business — GenuWine Tasting Room (www.mygenuwine.com). Several of his classmates have stopped in to say hello, imbibe, and reminisce.

Jim Kenney ’81 is an officer and serves as general counsel on the executive management team of the Fluor Corporation, a Fortune 150 engineering, procurement, construction and diversified services company. Jim has 20 years of legal experience in corporate and private law practice with responsibilities that focus on global transactions in the oil, gas, chemicals, and power industries. As Fluor’s lead attorney, he negotiated various engineering, procurement and construction agreements in the oil and gas, power, and civil infrastructure industries with contract values totaling an aggregate of more than $19 billion in the last 10 years. Three of those projects involved a new refinery, a coal-fired power station, and an offshore gas platform.

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weighing only 2 ½ pounds at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles. Her twin brother did not survive. Katie spent about 4 months in the hospital’s neo-natal intensive care unit and was on oxygen for the first year of her life. “We are blessed with Katie whose health and developmental issues continue to improve,” writes Dean. “In fact, most people would never know she had such a rough start in life. As a family, we are regular supporters of the March of Dimes which assists premature babies and their families.”

Rusty White ’87 is a co-owner of the new Velvet Cactus restaurant in Lakeview. Located on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Argonne Boulevard, the Velvet Cactus serves Mexican inspired dishes and is also a funky art joint. Gambit recently named it the second best new restaurant in New Orleans. The large outdoor patio makes guests feel like they are on vacation, even if it is for a few hours. Or maybe those vacations begin when guests order a margarita made with fresh lime and cane sugar.

Justin Ansel ’91, who holds the rank of major in the U.S. Marine Corps, returned from his 7th deployment. In July, Justin married Laura Ward, who he writes “is the woman of my dreams and she even puts up with me.” His classmates most likely know what that means. Justin is attending the Marine Corps Command and Staff College in Quantico, VA. In his wry sense of humor, he writes, “It certainly is a great way to spend the first year of marriage.”

Craig Simons ’91 is director of North American Operations for Smith & Associates, a Houston-based independent electronics

Arthur Wall ’93 is an executive chef at Garcon, an old-world French Bistro restaurant in San Francisco. He oversees all kitchen responsibilities while also creating seasonal menus that require fresh local ingredients. Arthur, who was previously the executive chef of the Restaurant at Wente Vineyards in Livermore, CA, delivers a stylish interpretation of French classics like coq au vin, mussels, duck confit, and French onion soup. Classically trained at the Winsdor Court Hotel in New Orleans, Arthur has always loved French cooking, especially with the resources and setting of the west coast.

Brian Capitelli ’94, who spent four years working in the U.S. Attorney’s office on Magazine and Poydras, recently joined the law firm of Capitelli & Wicker. In teaming up with his father, Ralph Capitelli, Brian focuses his law practice on criminal defense.

Michael Yenni ’94 completed his first year as the mayor of Kenner this past July. He

comes from a family of public servants that includes his uncle, Michael J. Yenni, who was president of Jefferson Parish, and his grandfather, Joseph S. Yenni, who served as mayor of Kenner for 10 years

before moving on to serve as Jefferson Parish’s president. “While I attribute many of my goals and ambitions to their influence, I know that my Jesuit education plays a major role in my career and daily life,” he writes. “Jesuit’s academic contribution, coupled with the faith and Christian values that were instilled in me during my time there, are a large part of the man I am today.” Yenni maintains contact with many of his classmates and writes that he intends to be an exemplary and influential leader in his community for many years to come. “I pledge to be a public servant that Jesuit High School can be proud of,” writes Yenni.

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distributor. He and his wife, Jennifer, live in Houston.Raymond Canzoneri, Jr. ’92 and his wife Wendy are proud parents of two future Blue Jays, Marc (age 4) and Gianni (age 1). He owns and operates his law firm, Raymond Canzoneri, Jr. and Associates, LLC, and specializes in construction defense, criminal defense, and personal injury. He also owns Relentless Fight Promotions and has successfully promoted several boxing and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fights (also known as “cage fights”) in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, and Florida.Orlando Cherenek, Jr. ’92 is living in New York and just started working for RBC Capital Markets in the firm’s institutional municipal sales department. “My daughter Ella turned 3 in February and my son Gus is now 2-years-old,” he writes.Malachi Hull ’92 has been appointed deputy director of the department of safety and permits of the City of New Orleans. He is responsible for the city’s ground transportation operations, including oversight of taxicabs, pedicabs, for-hire vehicles, and carriages. Malachi most recently served as director of the taxicab bureau for the Atlanta police department.Brooks Saucier ’92 has settled in Tryon, NC in the midst of world-class whitewater kayaking and road/mountain biking. He sells and processes control instrumentation to power, water/wastewater, and manufacturing plants in western North and South Carolina.Andrew Veprek ’93 is serving as the U.S. consul in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Jerry Bologna ’93, who has worked for 12 years in various capacities at the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission (JEDCO), was honored as the “Outstanding New Economic Developer of the Year” by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) at its annual conference in September in Charlotte, N.C. “This award honors a professional for exceptional achievements at the dawn of his or her career in economic development, and Mr. Bologna has launched many a triumphant endeavor since his entrée into the business of economic development,” said Dennis Coleman, IEDC chair. Jerry is currently responsible for Jefferson Parish’s business

retention and expansion program. He is also instrumental in industry recruitment in the attraction of new businesses to Jefferson Parish. “To be recognized in this manner by my peers around the country is a tremendous honor and a real testament to the hard work of the people of our organization,” writes Jerry in response to a Jaynotes inquiry. “Our post-Katrina work has been oft-cited by economic developers around the globe.  “The fact that I have been able to ‘pay it forward’ and impart the knowledge of the lessons learned to other economic development professionals in communities struggling through the aftermath of a disaster, has been extremely rewarding, both professionally and personally.  “Like many of my fellow alumni, I am blessed to work in an occupation that allows me to live out the ‘men for others’ motto on a daily basis. Jesuit did not teach me much about the world of economic development, but it taught me so much more,” he concludes. “The relationships that I built, the ability to approach problems critically, and a willingness to serve others are just a few of those lessons. That is why I can assure you that I was the only award winner who included their high school in the award program.”

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Ryan Brach ’95 was named the 2010 “Young Alumnus of the Year” by Loyola University’s Business School. He earned the award for his accomplishments in the field of entrepreneurship and franchising. Ryan owns and operates Rotolo’s Pizzerias in Gonzales, Prairieville, Walker, and Watson, LA. Ryan and Dina Brach welcomed their third daughter into the world, Reagan Marie Brach, last March.

Michael Goodier ’95 recently completed a residency in ear, nose, and throat surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He and his wife Aimee, along with their two children, Anna and Michael, Jr., live in Baton Rouge. He is practicing with St. Elizabeth Physicians in Gonzales.

Andrew Hernandez ’95 is taking an LLM (Master of Laws) in International Law with International Relations at the University of Kent at Canterbury for the 2011-2012 school year. He graduated with a Juris Doctor from Hamline School of Law in 2002.

Kurt Offner ’95 opened the Law Office of Kurt A. Offner, LLC in New Orleans. Kurt has a general civil practice focusing on personal injury and representing businesses.

Matt Oster ’95 recently completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship with advanced training in outcomes research and public health. He has joined Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Sibley Heart Center as a pediatric cardiologist, where he holds appointments of assistant professor of pediatrics in the Emory University School of Medicine and assistant professor of epidemiology in the Emory University School of Public Health. Additionally, he is a guest researcher in Atlanta’s Center for Disease Control’s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. (Read his entry in the Bib List.)

Jonathan Russell ’95 recently became director of development for the Emory Vaccine Center at Emory University’s School of Medicine. He manages the team responsible for all private donations from individual, corporate, and foundation support for one of the largest academic vaccine research centers in the world. The Center focuses on diseases of global importance such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and pandemic flu and has done groundbreaking basic research on immune memory.

Paul Abramson ’96 spent his years after graduation sailing on merchant ships (tankers and containerships) before going on active Navy duty on a destroyer in early 2001. Following his discharge in 2003, Paul returned to New Orleans, where he joined Intermarine. Katrina forced Paul and his family to relocate to the shipping company’s Houston office. (Read his entry in the Bib List.)

Judson Offner ’96 currently lives in Atyrau, Kazakhstan with his wife, Stacey, and their two sons, Cameron (age 8) and Mason (age 6). He was honored by Chevron as its 2010 Volunteer of the Year for his philanthropic service in the company’s Eurasia division. Judson writes: “In addition to helping Stacey with taking care of our boys, I run an English program at a local orphanage and raise money for the less fortunate children of Atyrau, Kazakhstan.

Ryan Russell ’96 recently completed his Ph.D. in kinesiology at LSU. Ryan’s dissertation, Examination of Metabolism in Diabetic Offspring, is the product of his study of diabetes metabolism for the past two years. Working around the publication of numerous scholarly articles and several national speaking engagements, Ryan spent a semester in the Netherlands where he studied with noted research scholars. Along the way to earning his Ph.D., Ryan studied and lectured at Marquette University, Auburn University, the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Patrick Anderson ’97 received his residential general contractors license and started his own company, Anderson Real Estate Development. He is currently involved in historic renovation work in the uptown area of New Orleans. Patrick lives in Covington with his wife, Yvette, and their daughter Sophia.

Claiborne Perrilliat ’98 is a financial advisor with Capital One and serves as the captain of his class leadership team. (Read his entry in the Bib List.)

James Poche ’99 is a nurse working in Ochsner’s ICU for the past seven years. He began studying at LSU in August for a masters degree in nursing anesthesia.He and his wife, Lindsey, are expecting their first child, a boy, before the end of the year.

Doug Adams ’01 returned to New Orleans after spending the last decade in Baton Rouge attending LSU and working in commercial real estate. Doug has begun a new career in insurance as a producer with HUB International Gulf South. He is also wrapping up his work in LSU’s Flores MBA program.

Michael Minvielle ’01 works for the U.S. National Science Foundation in the legislative and public affairs division on science television and radio programming. He and his wife, Mary Romaguera, are about to celebrate their one-year wedding anniversary. Michael and Mary were married at the St. Louis Cathedral on November 13, 2010. The couple resides in Lakeview.

Jake Daigle ’02 remains connected to his alma mater by chaperoning Blue Jays each summer on their Appalachian service trip. Following this past summer’s trip, Jake

said, “I loved being with the people of Fries, Virginia when I was a student at Jesuit, and now I thoroughly enjoy giving back to that community and to my fellow Blue Jays each summer.”

Michael Fos ’02 graduated from Rice University last December with a masters of science degree in electrical and computer engineering. Michael married Susan White this past June.

Michael Giardina ’02 graduated from the University of South Alabama in May 2011 with a doctorate in physical therapy. Michael began working at TIRR Outpatient Rehab in Houston in June, primarily treating patients who have sustained strokes and spinal cord injuries.

Derek Morel ’02 is now qualified as a State Farm “Select Agent.” Derek is serving as a member of his class leadership team and is helping to plan their reunion.

Jacques Hebert ’03 recently transitioned within Google to begin a new position at YouTube working on the global communication and public affairs team.

Patrick Staiano ’03 married Amanda Exner of Baton Rouge on June 4, 2011. Patrick works in the survey group at C.H. Fenstermaker & Associates. The couple resides in Baton Rouge.

Jimmy Cesario ’04 is currently playing baseball in the Colorado Rockies organization at the Double-A level.

Gavin Daigle ’04 graduated from the University of Alabama in August, a ceremony that was delayed as a result of May’s devastating tornado in Tuscaloosa. Gavin received a masters of science degree in microbiology. He is pursuing a Ph.D. at LSU Medical and Science Center.

Chris Markey ’04 recently completed his season as a member of the Zurich Renegades in the European Football League. Chris was selected as the “Most Valuable Offensive Player” in the league.

Greg Agid ’05 served as an instructor at the Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Jazz Camp – an intensive three week program held at Loyola University. The camp is for musicians between the ages of 10 and 21 and focuses on instrumental and vocal improvisation, composition, dance, and jazz history. Greg attended the same camp when he was 13-years-old prior to attending Jesuit and playing in the Blue Jay Band.

Jeremy Call ’05 became engaged while travelling in Cinque Terre, Italy. He and his fiancé, Sarah Delahoussaye, are attending law school at the LSU Law Center. Their wedding date is December 17, 2011. They will be married by Fr. Raymond Fitzgerald.

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Brett McMann ’05 is working with Brown and Caldwell Environmental Engineers and Consultants in Baton Rouge. Brown and Caldwell are contractors for the Louisiana State office of coastal protection and restoration (OCPR). “We primarily are involved with coastal restoration planning and program management activities for OCPR as well as other local water resources projects,” writes Brett.

Michael Mims ’05 is in his first year of practicing law with the firm of Bradley, Murchison, Kelly & Shea in New Orleans.

Miles Rowan ’05 is a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He received his commission after graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Class of 2010. He serves as an officer leading a platoon of infantrymen in support of special forces operations in the mountains of Afghanistan. Miles and his unit support the Spartan Association, collecting educational supplies for school children in Afghanistan. Letters may be sent to Miles at Miles T. Rowan, SOTF-SOUTH, ATTN: VSP LAM, APO AE 09355.

Michael Schafer ’05 has joined Jacobs Engineering in Metairie as an entry level engineer.

Joseph Testa ’05 graduated with a bachelor of science degree in nuclear engineering and was commissioned as a surface warfare officer. In May he married Sarah Kinney in Austin, TX and they currently live in Norfolk, VA. Joseph is assigned as an auxiliaries officer onboard the guided missile destroyer, USS RAMAGE, which spent the summer in the Mediterranean for “ballistic missile defense operations.”

Ramon Vargas ’05 was honored by the New Orleans Press Club for his work at The Times-Picayune. In July, he won the Bill Rainey Memorial Award for deadline reporting for the story he co-wrote about a car that careened off the Judge Seeber Bridge into the

Industrial Canal. Vargas also won awards for general news and community news coverage.

Scott Delatte ’06 is a first year Jesuit novice at the St. Stanislaus Noviate in Grand Coteau, LA. A recent graduate of Belmont Abbey College with an undergraduate degree in theology, Scott is grateful to the monks for their fine example. Since graduation from college, he has worked long hours in a restaurant to pay his academic loans. While a Blue Jay, Scott was in the band, the Christian Life Community (CLC), the Pro-Life Club, and was a reader and server at student Masses. In addition to enjoying the company of his friends, he jogs most days of the week.

Jonathan Mann ’06 moved to Houston and is working as a consultant for Deloitte & Touche, LLP. He returns to New Orleans often to visit with friends and family.

Julien Petit ’06 graduated from Texas A&M University in May 2011 with a BS degree in engineering and industrial distribution and a minor in psychology. He was married in February 2011 to Catherine Lysgaard and recently became a Knight of Columbus. Julien is living in Tempe, AZ and is a manager in training for Goodman Manufacturing, which builds and distributes air conditioning and heating units.

Alex Faust ’07 graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in operations research and financial engineering. He served as captain of the tennis team which posted a 7-1 record in the Ivy League, the best record for the Tigers in the past 10 years. Alex was named to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi Honor Societies and is working for Credit Suisse in New York City. Alex credits Jesuit High School for giving him an excellent educational foundation.

William Allen Farrington ’07 recently graduated magna cum laude from the

University of Mississippi with a degree in accounting. Allen is enrolled in the masters accounting program at Ole Miss. After he completes his studies, he will be employed with Ernst & Young in Memphis. He writes that he looks forward to attending his five-year reunion next year.

Adam Hymel ’07 is a senior at Louisiana Tech University and a starting defensive tackle for the Bulldogs. Adam was a walk-on in his freshman year and made the team, gradually moving up the ladder. Last season he was awarded a scholarship. View Adam’s stats: http://www.latechsports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/hymel_adam00.html.

David Lukinovich ’07 has committed to play baseball at the University of Louisiana-Monroe. At Delgado, he was on two Division I Junior College south regional runner-up teams. David pitched sparingly the past two years because he sustained a serious shoulder injury. He returned to the mound last spring but was limited to four appearances. David was on the Jesuit team that won the 2007

state championship as well as the 2006 team that finished as state-runner up.

Michael Bordes ’08 has ended his sterling rugby career at LSU. Nicknamed “Mighty” by his coach, Michael was an integral part of a Tiger team that racked up final national rankings of 6th, 11th, and 12th during the past three years. During Michael’s tenure as a Tiger, LSU went 42-9. Michael is currently enrolled in pharmacy school at Xavier University in New Orleans.

Dylan Becnel ’09 is serving as the “nuisance alligator hunter” for the southeast region of Louisiana. He is the

youngest person to hold this position. He lives in Plaquemines Parish where he assists his family’s business of citrus farming. Dylan loves fishing and hunting and claims to miss his days at Jesuit.

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Mr. and Mrs. John Blake Postell ’59 on the birth of their granddaughter, Mary Margaret Johnston, September 15, 2010. Mary Margaret is the great niece of former Jesuit High School president Fr. Philip Postell, S.J. ’56, Bill Postell ’63, and David Postell ’65.

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. Heigle ’69 on the birth of their granddaughter, Charlotte Ann Siemssen, June 19, 2011. Charlotte is the great niece of Thomas J. Heigle ’83 and the niece of Eric Heigle ’02.

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Hernandez ’81 on the birth of their son, William James Hernandez, May 3, 2011.

Dr. and Mrs. Nate J. Normand ’87 on the birth of their son, Garrett Evan Normand, July 1, 2010. Garrett is the nephew of Newell D. Normand ’76.

Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dardis, Jr. ’88 on the birth of their son, Walter James Dardis, August 19, 2011. Walter is the great-grandson of the late William J. Dardis, Jr. ’25 and Harry N. Charbonnet ’36. He is the grandson of John J. Dardis ’59, the great nephew of Br. William J. “Billy” Dardis, S.J. ’58, and the nephew of Billy Dardis ’90 and Steve Dardis ’97.

Mr. and Mrs. Keith C. Maresma ’89 on the birth of their son, Mason Edward Maresma, January 12, 2011. Mason is the nephew of Brad Maresma ’94.

Mr. and Mrs. Shayne L. Benedetto ’90 on the birth of their son, William Ritter Benedetto, March 29, 2011.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Harper ’90 on the birth of their son, Robert P. Harper, Jr., March 5, 2011. Robert is the nephew of Ryan Harper ’92.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Matthews, Jr. ’90 on the birth of their daughter, Kennedy Vaughn Matthews, June 22, 2011.

Mr. and Mrs. Brian P. Dwyer ’93 on the birth of their son, Logan Patrick Dwyer, April 25, 2011. Logan is the great-grandson of the late Edmond J. LeBreton ’29 and the nephew of Donald M. Dawson ’94.

Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Jeanfreau ’93 on the birth of their daughter, Lilah Adele Jeanfreau, December 22, 2009. Lilah is the niece of Charles Jeanfreau, Jr. ’87 and André Jeanfreau ’89.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Romig ’94 on the birth of their daughter, Avery Frischhertz Romig, January 12, 2011. Avery is the niece of Eric Frischhertz ’87, Eric Romig ’90, and Kevin Frischhertz ’90.

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Burke ’95 on the birth of their daughter, Charlotte Clare Burke, March 2, 2011. Charlotte is the niece of Jeremy Burke ’97.

Mr. and Mrs. Scott H. Clark ’95 on the birth of their son, Grayson Will Clark, April 11, 2011. Grayson is the grandson of the late William N. Clark ’57 and the nephew of Will Clark, Jr. ’82.

Dr. and Mrs. Matt Oster ’95 on the birth of their second daughter, Sonoma Kate Oster, on April 15, 2011. Their first child, Carter Price Oster, was born June 21, 2008.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Abramson ’96 on the birth of their daughter, Caitlyn Isabella Abramson, June 15, 2011.

Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Radosta ’96 on the birth of their son, Rylan Young Radosta, September 15, 2010.

Dr. and Mrs. André J. Mouledoux, Jr. ’97 on the birth of their son, André Jean Mouledoux III, March 29, 2010. Christian is the grandson of André Mouledoux ’68, the great nephew of Rene Mouledoux ’68, and the nephew of Aaron Zeringue ’87, Floyd Pitcher ’86, and Ovid P. Davis ’98.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris S. Zeringue ’97 on the birth of their son, Christian Robert Zeringue, January 19, 2011. He is the nephew of Carl J. Howat ’89, Craig J. Howat ’90, and Chad A. Howat ’92.

Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Adams ’98 on the birth of their son, George Wilkerson Adams, February 18, 2011. George is the grand nephew of O’Neil Parenton ’73, Pat Parenton ’74, Tommy Parenton ’77, Tim Parenton ’80, Warren Cuntz, Jr. ’80, Mickey Parenton ’84, Kelly Parenton ’90, and Charles Haddad, Jr. ’91. He is the nephew of Douglas Adams ’01 and Woody Reilly ’01.

Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan B. Cerise ’98 on the birth of their son, Benjamin Paul Cerise, December 1, 2010. Benjamin is the grandson of Donald P. Cerise ’69 and the nephew of Jeremy Burke ’97.

Mr. and Mrs. Corey M. Fitzpatrick ’98 on the birth of their son, Colt Finn Fitzpatrick, May 12, 2011. Colt is the nephew of Johnny Fitzpatrick III ’86 and Timmy Fitzpatrick ’88.

Mr. and Mrs. Jody J. Fortunato ’98 on the birth of their son, Luke Karol Fortunato, March 9, 2011.

Mr. and Mrs. William J. Guste IV ’98 on the birth of their son, Palmer Adams Guste, February 19, 2011. Palmer is the great-grandson of William J. Guste, Jr. ’38, the grandson of William J. Guste III ’66, and the nephew of Nicholas A. Danna IV ’94 and John P. Guste ’00.

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Perrilliat III ’98 on the birth of their son, Cole Perrilliat, June 22, 2011. Cole is the grandson of Claiborne Perrilliat, Jr. ’62 and the nephew of Jean Paul Perrilliat ’03.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roth ’98 on the birth of their first child, Richard Joseph Roth IV, January 10, 2011.

Mr. and Mrs. Ryan G. Chin ’99 on the birth of their son, Cooper Ryan Chin, April 28, 2011. Cooper is the nephew of Kevin Chin ’97.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Marshall III ’99 on the birth of their daughter, Emily Claire Marshall, July 13, 2010.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey C. Paddock ’99 on the birth of their son, Brennan Michael Paddock, May 16, 2011. Brennan is the great-grandson of the late Clarence A. Paddock ’36.

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Truxillo ’99 on the birth of their daughter, Ava Marie Truxillo, February 19, 2011. Ava is the great-granddaughter of the late Marion M. Truxillo ’32, the granddaughter of M. Mark Truxillo ’71, and the niece of Ryan Truxillo ’94.

Mr. and Mrs. David A. Lynn ’00 on the birth of their daughter, Emma Spangenberg Lynn, September 14, 2010. Emma is the granddaughter of Robert F. Spangenberg ’64 and the niece of Thomas Lynn ’97.

Dr. Christian Montegut ’00 and Dr. Shelly Montegut on the birth of their son, Colin Lyle Montegut, April 28, 2011. Colin is the grandson of Christy Montegut ’70 and the nephew of Jason Montegut ’96 and Kevin Astugue ’07.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Hijuelos ’01 on the birth of their son, Spencer Floyd Hijuelos, January 15, 2011. Spencer is the grandson of Alfred L. Hijuelos ’69 and the nephew of Jonathan C. Hijuelos ’99.

Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Bonilla ’02 on the birth of their son, Brady Rice Bonilla, April 24, 2011. Brady is the nephew of Kristoffer Bonilla ’93.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Ganucheau ’06 on the birth of their twin sons, Andrew and Henry Ganucheau, July 9, 2011. Andrew and Henry are the great-grandsons of Gilbert F. Ganucheau ’47 and the nephews of Adam Ganucheau ’04 and Ross Ganucheau ’09.

Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell D. Greunig ’06 on the birth of their daughter, Sophia Elizabeth Gruenig, May 25, 2011. Sophia is the great-granddaughter of Gerald R. Seely ’40.

Send Biblist info to: Krista Roeling (roeling@jesuitnola.org) and she will send you a blue or pink Blue Jay bib!

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G R A D U AT I O N 2 0 1 0IN MEMORIAM A L U M N I

JESUIT ALUMNI… Henry G. Schmidt, Sr. ’30; Fred G. D’Aunoy ’33; Leonard J. Elmer ’33; Vernon H. Loisel ’35; Henry W. Bull, Jr. ’36; Harold B. White, Jr. ’36; John B. Sides ’37; Thomas H. Kingsmill, Jr. ’38; Ernest L. Salatich ’38; Edwin R. Cousins ’39; Rev. James A. Lockett ’39; George J. Taquino ’39; Carl J. Oldenburg ’40; William J. Wegmann ’40; Edward S. Crist ’41; George W. Pigman, Jr. ’41; Michael T. Blouin ’42; Louis J. Brown ’42; Robert J. Villars ’42; Frank D. Delery ’44; Walter D. Kingston, Jr. ’45; Henry B. Logan ’45; Ronald A. Mancuso, Sr. ’45; George L. Marchesseau, Jr. ’45; William M. Roeling ’45; Lawrence C. Santana, Jr. ’45; Oliver F. Davis, Jr. ’47; Alfred P. Manint, Jr. ’47; John W. Manning, Jr. ’47; Rev. Msgr. Milton L. Reisch ’47; Richard S. Waguespack ’48; Edward R. Cannon ’50; Joseph S. Coglaiti, Jr. ’51; Rev. Donald L. Gelpi, S.J. ’51; Thomas J. Mathews ’51; John P. Volz ’53; Ralph F. Downey II ’54; Carl J. Giffin ’54; Gerald L. Conley ’55; Charles E. Decker III ’55; Joseph E. Meyer, Jr. ’55; Melvin J. Hoerner ’56; Denis D. Manchon, Jr. ’56; Edward G. Hamann ’57; Adrian A. Colon ’59; John M. Berthelot, Jr. ’60; Kepper M. Maitland ’60; Paul H. Muller ’61; Louis F. Schnell ’64; Joseph R. DePaoli, Jr. ’65; Jerome F. Mechler ’65; Lawrence C. Robert, Jr. ’66; Mark J. Taliancich ’70; Philip Kroper ’71; Robert S. Green ’72; Thomas M. Peyton, Jr. ’78; Richard P. Wendt, Jr. ’94.

WIFE OF… The late John J. Alloy ’37; the late Arthur C. Apffel ’39; the late Anthony F. Bologna ’34; Charles A. Breithoff ’55; Alfred N. Clement ’50; the late Henry L. Clesi, Jr. ’36; the late Philip S. Clark ’22; Charles E. Clark ’57; the late Jeffrey H. Collins, Jr. ’44; the late Lawrence A. Comiskey, Jr. ’45; George C. Connolly, Jr.

’44; the late James C. Decuers ’37; Lucien C. Delery, Jr. ’65; Robert E. DeSilva, Sr. ’57; the late Lambert G. Durel ’38; the late Aloysius M. Frechou ’38; the late Charles M. Gilbert ’37; Stanley R. Hoogerwerf ’68; Donald F. Hulin ’51; the late Robert L. Indest, Jr. ’37; the late Robert S. Kline, Jr. ’45; Robert G. Kuebel ’47; the late Herman Lind, Jr. ’40; the late Ashton J. Martin, Jr. ’30; the late J. Scott Matthews, Jr. ’34; the late Leonard J. McCaffery, Sr. ’38; Stanton F. McNeely, Jr. ’55; the late George E. Rapier ’42; the late Elmo C. Rousseau ’40; the late Willard T. Ryan ’31; the late Wayne J. Salathe ’35; the late Gordon A. Saussy ’48; James L. Selmann II ’53; Melvin J. St. Blanc ’45; the late Eugene F. Van Geffen ’44; Michael P. Wicker, Jr. ’47.

FATHER OF… Lucas J. Bacino ’62; Leonard T. Blanks ’65; Kaleb J. Boudreaux ’10 (stepfather); Michael Brown ’80; Rodney L. Cambre, Jr. ’77; the late Malcolm J. Casadaban ’67; Adrian A. Colon, Jr. ’83; Vincent A. Costello ’71; Cary M. Craig ’96; Edward S., Jr. ’66 and Donald P. Crist ’69; Clyde W. Crochet ’67; Brook J. Danos ’05; Charles E. IV ’80 and Scott A. Decker ’85; Robert L. Ebberman, Jr. ’63; Albert G. Elliott ’68; Anthony J. III ’78 and Lance L. Engolia ’83; Carl J. Giffin, Jr. ’77; Jonathan P. ’02 and Ian R. Graham ’04; Steven F. ’66, Gary C. ’74, and the late Eric L. Griffith ’67; Ralph C. III ’92 and Steven S. Grimaldi ’95; Raul B. Guevara ’66; Holger F. Heap ’83; Troy A. Herbert, Jr. ’05; Robert J. Hingle, Jr. ’98; Scott J. Hoerner ’86; Thomas H. III ’72, Timothy P. ’74, and Patrick M. Kingsmill ’82; Marcell E., Jr. ’82 and Mark E. Leveque ’87; Ronald A. Mancuso, Jr. ’68; Warren G. McKinzie, Jr. ’69; Mason C. Mehrhoff ’80; Daniel E. Mobley ’62; John D., Jr. ’61 and Michael E. Nolan ’63; Donald C.

Oster, Jr. ’64; Barney V. Oufnac ’57; Richard A. ’74 and Stephen J. Ripberger ’82; Michael G. Russo ’83; Kent III ’76 and Stephen T. Satterlee ’80; Raymond D. Speeg ’65; Gregory C. ’75 and Theodore E. Storms ’77; Lawrence W. Stoulig, Jr. ’67; Mark J. Taliancich, Jr. ’00; Joseph Thornhill ’76; Leon J. Touzet, Jr. ’57; Albert J. Vallon III ’72; Frank H. Walk, Jr. ’69; William J., Jr. ’66, Stephen G. ’71, and Paul R. Wegmann ’85; Joseph D. Wright III ’89.

MOTHER OF… Rodney J. Abele, Jr. ’63; Brian E. Adorno ’77; Michael E. Allain ’64; John S. ’69 and Robert A. Anderson ’78; Blaine G. Austin ’82; William F. Bologna ’64; David A. Brown, Jr. ’92 (stepmother); Michael D. ’71, Gregory A. ’73, and James D. Caffarel ’80; the late Malcolm J. Casadaban ’67; Philip S., Jr. ’54 and the late William N. Clark ’57; the late Joseph Cogliati ’51; Gary J. Danos ’63; Joseph F. DiMaria ’65; John G. Doussa ’52; Roger J. Drake ’71; Chance F. Duran ’03; Bert Durel ’65; Paul R., Jr. ’71 and James M. Falter ’77; Lawrence W. Gilbert ’65; Charles B. Goslee ’58; Roy A. Hauck, Jr. ’71; Joshua L. ’00 and Benjamin P. Hurley ’03; Wallace E. ’69 and Robert J. Jeanfreau ’73; Gregory S. Johnson ’79; Joseph D. Jordan, Jr. ’63; Pierre D. Kirk ’63; Roger R. Knight ’61; Randall J. ’71 and James J. Legeai, Jr. ’73; the late Lawrence O. Lundgren, Jr. ’61; J. Scott Matthews II ’70; Leonard J., Jr. ’60 and Michael P. McCaffery ’70; Robert D. Menesses ’76; George A. Miller, Jr. ’69; John A. Olagues, Jr. ’63; Adam J. Page III ’95; Alan R. Ruffer ’72; Dan M. Scheuermann ’65; F. Stewart ’77, Charles P. ’78, and John H. Scheyd ’82; Paul D. Walther ’78; J. Fred ’59 and Rudolph W. Woessner ’65; John W. Wood ’64.

BROTHER OF… Emanuel ’51 and William T.

Each edition of Jaynotes features deceased loved ones of the Jesuit High School community. The lists in this issue cover February 1, 2011 through August 29, 2011 and are based on information from the families of the deceased as well as death notices published in various newspapers. The “In Memoriam” page on the school’s web site contains current information and is updated every day by Br. William J. “Billy” Dardis, S.J. ’58, who serves as director of special projects in Jesuit’s office of institutional advancement. For many, many years, Br. Dardis has strived painstakingly to ensure the accuracy of each listing on the web site as well as in Jaynotes. And when you think about the thousands of people who comprise the Jesuit community, it is amazing that his daily compilations of deceased loved ones, which often include a family tree of Blue Jay survivors, are 99.999% accurate. Br. Dardis would be the first to admit that mistakes are occasionally made, despite his diligent and conscientious efforts that involve cross-checking names and relationships in Jesuit’s database against transcripts and even index cards containing typed information about an alumnus. It has been suggested that whatever system Br. Dardis utilizes to produce the “In Memoriam” listings should have been patented long ago. The few mistakes are usually typos and involve a misspelled name, an incorrect graduation year, or an omission of some sort. Once in a blue moon, a doozy happens. It is a rare and unfortunate occurrence when an alumnus is listed as deceased when, in fact, he is alive and well. When the previous issue of Jaynotes was published in late spring, the “In Memoriam” page duly noted the passing of Anthony J. Clesi of the Class of 1948. In June, Mr. Clesi called our office to inform us that rumors of his death were premature and that he was “still alive and well.” Jesuit apologized profusely to Mr. Clesi, who seemed to be more bemused than annoyed about the whole matter. Our investigation discovered that the January 22, 2011 edition of The Times-Picayune carried a death notice of one Mr. Anthony J. Clesi, Jr. Among his survivors was a brother whose name is identical to the brother of Jesuit’s Mr. Clesi. It certainly appeared that Anthony Clesi, the Blue Jay of the Class of ’48, had died. This turned out to be one of those fluke mistakes likely caused by a combo of circumstances — at least two planets were out of alignment, there was a ring around the moon, ice cream was missing from the freezer of the Jesuit residence, and Lady Luck had vanished, nowhere to be found at Carrollton and Banks. Any mistakes or omissions in the “In Memoriam” listings, whether on the web site or in Jaynotes, should be reported promptly toBr. Dardis. His email is: dardis@jesuitnola.org, or call his office at 504-483-3814.

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Blessey ’52; the late John R. Bull ’35; the late Thomas E. Clapp ’43; Leed J. ’57 and Malcolm J. Colon ’66; Stephen A. ’69 and William C. Cristina ’72; the late Albert F. Doussan, Jr. ’35; Edmond H. Fitzmaurice III ’74; the late Louis A. Friloux, Jr. ’49; the late George F. Gaudin, Jr. ’39; the late Albert J. Gelpi, Jr. ’47; Stanley B., Jr. ’68 and Kendall P. Green ’70; Robert D. ’75 and Paul G. Kroper ’78; Donald J. Landry II ’75; Donald G. Maitland ’51; Kenneth J. Martin ’60; Francis J. Meyer ’58; Sewell J., Jr. ’60, Robert M. ’61, John T. ’68, Lawrence P. ’70, Thomas J. ’73, and Michael D. Oertling ’74; the late Paul O.H. Pigman ’39; the late Charles L. ’39 and Rev. Hilton L. Rivet, S.J. ’39; John K., Jr. ’97, Christopher K. ’00, and William H. Russ ’03; the late Peter B., Jr. ’34, the late Malter A. ’35, and the late Eugene T. Salatich ’43; the late George R. ’52 and Robert J. Satterlee ’56; Kent III ’76 and Stephen T. Satterlee ’80; Geary M. Serpas ’57; the late Roy H. Sides ’31; Francis X. ’38 and the late Edward F. Wegmann ’34.

SISTER OF… The late Ernest E. Andry, Jr. ’57; the late Louis R. Ayala, Jr. ’38; Mordelo V. Breckenridge ’65; the late Louis J. Brown, Jr. ’42; Barry M. ’74 and Brian J. Butera ’75; Christopher M. Casey ’92; Harold P. ’41 and Alfred N. Clement ’50; Anthony J. Clesi, Jr. ’48; the late John T. Daly, Jr. ’42; John G. Discon ’50; J. Michael ’33, Thomas A. ’50, and the late Joseph D. Early ’42; the late Scuddy F. Fontenelle, Jr. ’47; the late Louis G. Friedrichs ’36; the late Walter T. Geary ’26; H. Gordon Hartman ’48; the late Harold A. Heitkamp ’46; the late John G. Hyland, Jr. ’39; the late Carlos J. Kelly ’51; John G. King ’53; the late Karl R. Kronlage ’52; Daniel E. Knowles III ’71; the late Henry T. LaBiche, Jr. ’30; the late John K. Lacourrege ’46; Stanley E., Jr. ’62 and James E. LeBlanc ’67; the late A. J. Leboeuf, Jr. ’44; the late Albert L. LeBreton, Jr. ’41; the late Joseph F. Leydecker ’52; Anthony E. Maurin, Jr. ’50; the late Peter L. McGoey, Jr. ’23; Claude R. Moncrief, Jr. ’47; the late Sidney Pecot ’34; William J. ’61, M. Michael ’69, and the late C. Gregg Quinlan ’59; the late Rene A. Quentin, Jr. ’48; the late J. Sinclair Reynaud ’32; the late Henry O. ’49 and the late Raymond M. Rocker, Jr. ’50; the late Ernest Schluter, Jr. ’41; the late Frank A. ’38 and the late Jerome J. Zaeringer ’41.

SON OF… T. Caswell Brown ’45; Calvin F. Cristina ’43; Edmond H. Fitzmaurice, Jr. ’52; the late J. Browne Larose, Jr. ’41; the late Sewell J. Oertling ’29; J. Kevin Russ ’72; the late Kent Satterlee, Jr. ’48; David L. Segrave ’59; the late John W. Whalen, Jr. ’31.

DAUGHTER OF… Kennedy J. Gilly ’42; the late Daniel E. Knowles, Jr. ’47; the late Stanley E. LeBlanc, Sr. ’31; Alan T. Leonhard, Jr. ’85; Andrew G. Pierce, Jr. ’54; Michael O. Read ’61.

GRANDFATHER OF… Alexander K. Assaf ’06; Roger A. Bacon III ’10; Beau A. Bartholomew ’95; Christopher K. Blanchard ’97; Christopher E. ’07, Ryan W. ’09, and Steven M. Cabos ’11; Dino L. Carlomagno ’85; Robert L. Crist, Jr. ’00; Daniel J. Currault ’05; Cleve M. Daigle, Jr. ’10; Dean A. Doherty ’74; Bradley W. Drouant

’00; Lawrence J., Jr. ’91 and Mark D. Duplass ’95; Ryan L. Ebberman ’07; Todd J. Elliot ’04; Anthony J. IV ’09 and Dominic M. Engolia ’14; Loy E. Ernst III ’01; Carl J. Giffin III ’04; Pearce L. ’97 and Cole D. Grieshaber ’16; Xavier J. Grilletta III ’99; Julius E. Hardouin ’01; Christopher R. ’03 and Matthew P. Juge ’05; Michael P. ’96, Jeffrey P. ’00, and Timothy J. Juhas ’04; Mark D. Kingsmill ’08; Steven L. Kreller ’94; Charles J. III ’98 and Christopher J. Laborde ’02; Andre J. ’96 and Blake T. Lagarde ’02; Christopher E. ’86 and Aaron J. Lagraize ’93; Parker C. ’09 and Taylor V. Lapeyre ’11; Neil J. Larrieu ’05; Ryan B. ’96 and Aaron B. Lay ’97; Eric O. Leefe ’03; Walter J. III ’96 and Rhett M. Leger ’99; Timothy W., Jr. ’07, Daniel L. ’08, and Joseph C. Levy ’09; Clayton A. Lococo ’15; Brian C. Lomax ’94; Justin M. Lorio ’16; Eric T. Matherne ’00; Thomas C. Meaux ’94; Daniel J. Millet ’95; Lester J. Millet IV ’05; Gregory P. Nolan ’91; Michael B. ’82 and Brian W. North ’83; Stephen M. Noya ’11; Stephen D. ’91, Matthew E. ’95, and Bradley T. Oster ’06; Michael E. Paulhus ’96; Stephen G. ’00 and John E. Pivach ’06; Michael A., Jr. ’06, Andrew S. ’09, and James O. Puente ’12; Bryan D. Rando ’97; Michael L. Raspino ’98; Alexander D. Roeling ’09; Joseph P. ’11, Dominic M. ’13, and Andrew B. Russo ’15; Ryan M. Scafidel ’90; James R. Schindler ’03; Mark C. Skains ’93; Austin M. ’10 and George W. Smith ’13; Nicholas B. Spindel ’00; Gray C. ’95 and Lawrence W. Stoulig III ’06; Steven M. Swanson ’06; David V. Swetland ’05; C. Richard ’07 and Robert M. Talley ’08; Leon J. III ’90 and Pierre R. Touzet ’94; Albert J. Vallon IV ’13; Ronald J. II ’87 and David T. Ventola ’95; Daniel B. Walk ’06; Christopher S. Wegmann ’09; Christopher L. Williams ’03; Evan R. ’01 and Raleigh J. Wolfe ’04; Edwin A. Zavala ’05.

GRANDMOTHER OF… Rodney J. III ’93 and Andrew W. Abele ’95; Brian E., Jr. ’07 and Andrew E. Adorno ’10; Paul G., Jr. ’82 and Stephen J. Aguillard ’84; Mitchell O. Alexander ’13; Blair C. Arroyo ’90; James M. ’04, Michael N. ’09; and Christopher D. Arruebarrena ’11; Adam A. Aucoin ’14; William P. Baudouin, Jr. ’15; Gary L., Jr. ’97 and Jonathan L. Beals ’02; Stephen M. Blum ’14; Robert G. Boesch ’06; Oscar G. Bonilla ’81; Kenneth C. Bordes ’00; Matthew S. ’03 and Joshua P. Bravender ’07; Sean P. ’92 and Kelly R. Burke ’94; Brandon D. Callais ’15; William R. Cambre ’83; Frederick L. Caro III ’90; Sean H. Casey ’05; David F. Celentano, Jr. 12; Chase C. Charbonnet ’02; William N., Jr. ’82 and Scott H. Clark ’95; Donald E. Clogher ’87; Lawrence A. Comiskey IV ’06; Michael K., Jr. ’86, Allan C. ’87, and Jeffrey R. Crane ’92; Brook J. Danos ’05 (step-grandmother); Joseph A. Dantin, Jr. ’11; Brett E. ’88 and Sean E. David ’90; James S. Delery ’87; George L. DeMare III ’87; Marc G. ’10, Brennan C. ’12, and Ashton M. Dorsey ’12; Jeffrey J. Falati ’97; Timothy M. Falter ’02; Justin J. ’03 and Alexander J. Farge ’05; Gerard J. III ’11 and Jack M. Ferro ’13; Paul S. Fitzmorris ’06; Andrew C. ’95 and Jules A. Fontana III ’82; Thomas E. ’96 and Jerome M. Freel ’99; Anthony J. Genova ’14; Casey M.

Genovese ’01; Justin M. Genovese ’04; Joseph L. Giglio ’10; L. William Gilbert ’95; Dustin M. Gould ’08; Christopher D. ’97, Mark D. ’99, and Scott D. Harlan ’01; Hunter P. IV ’89 and Chad M. Harris ’90; Stephen C. Hewitt ’05; Douglas R. Higginbotham ’04; Charles M. Higgins ’88; Cade E. Hoerner ’11; Phillip E. III ’83 and Michael S. James ’89; Jeremy W. ’99, Adam P. ’01, David E. ’03, and Jacob A. Jeanfreau ’11; Jason A. Joffre ’99; Mark J. Johnson ’07; Thomas A. Kehoe III ’15; Louis S., Jr. ’94 and Ryan D. Klotzbach ’00; the late A. Frank Koury ’70; Steven L. Kreller ’94; Andre J. ’96 and Blake T. Lagarde ’02; Christian P. Lagarde ’93; Richard T., Jr. and Todd J. Laudun ’80; Donald E. ’92 and Joseph F. Lavigne ’94; Stephen C. Lazar ’14; Jared W. Ledet ’01; Vincent J. Liuzza III ’87; Christian M. Llull ’94; P. Stephen Lundgren ’88; Leone R. Marshall ’94; David P. McCabe ’95; Taylor R. ’92, Ian T. ’96, and Dylan M. McCaffery ’11; Stanton F. III ’91, John W. F. ’93, and Godfrey L. McNeely ’95; J. Matthew Miller III ’97; Kendall P., Jr. ’84 and Kevin R. Miller ’86; Michael E. Morse ’05; Carlos G. Navarro ’92; Brian M. Olagues ’93; Darryl R. ’92 and Derek R. Overby ’97; Gregory D. ’85 and Christopher D. Paliaro ’88; Mark P. Reuther ’09; Marcus A. Rodgers ’94; Blaine D. Rogers ’05; Timothy W. ’86 and John E. Ross ’93; Scott M. ’93, Douglas A. ’97, and Matthew P. Salathe ’99; Peyton S. Saunders ’13; Ernesto-Alejandro Schweikert ’97; Sean R. Siebenkittel ’03; Alton O. Smith ’03; Jeffrey S. ’03 and Kyle P. Springmann ’12; Gregory J. ’05 and Douglas M. Stokes ’06; Benjamin M. Taylor ’91; Reese J. Templet ’11; Donald R. Toso, Jr. ’97; Steven A. ’92 and Brian A. Trapani ’95; Shane B. Troendle ’11; Todd P. Trosclair, Jr. ’98; Frank J., Jr. ’96 and Michael P. Varela ’97; Ray L. Verges, Jr. ’02; Christopher C. ’07, Ryan P. ’09, and Michael J. Veters ’12; Kai D. White ’97; Troy A. ’86 and Kevin E. Williams ’91; David P. Woessner ’87; Bryant S. Woods ’12; Grayson L. Wormser ’15; Dustin M. Yates ’98; Stephen F. Yeager ’81.

GRANDSON OF… The late G. Gernon Brown ’20; the late Joseph K. Hardie ’42; the late Celeste J. Wichser ’34.

GRANDDAUGHTER OF… Joseph S. Casey ’32; Alan T. Leonhard ’56; the late Douglas J. Railey ’46; the late A. Louis Read ’32.

GREAT GRANDFATHER OF… Seth A. Brotherton ’13 (step-great grandfather); Eric O. ’12 and William F. North ’13.

GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF… Brandon R. Cambre ’02; Austin J. ’12 and Cole C. Delery ’15; David E. Deruisa ’03; Andrew M. Doran ’16; Thomas N. Eggleston ’15; Alan J., Jr. ’05 and Benjamin M. Elmer ’12; Lucka J. Garma ’11; Zachary M. Hahn ’13; Trevor C. Laborde ’15; Cole E. ’15 and Connor C. Lauman ’15; James S. ’10 and Philip T. Murray ’12.

Current announcements are listed on the “In Memoriam” page of Jesuit’s web site: www.jesuitnola.org/alumni/inmemoriam/htm.

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Jesuit enjoys impressive support from parents and alumni in its mission as a Catholic, college preparatory school. Finally, Jesuit’s religious atmosphere is a source of edification. I am personally encouraged by the commitment to strong moral principles by such groups as the Pro-Life Club and the St. Peter Claver Club, by the wide participation of students in weekly Adoration, and by the union for service of God and neighbor manifested by our Sodalities and Christian Life Communities. I suggest, though, that we are all fortunate and all have reason to be grateful. As we settle into this academic year, it is helpful to recall that God has given us this particular moment, the great gift of time (a commodity beyond our ability to produce). Moreover, He has entrusted us — students, faculty, staff, parents, and alumni — to one another at this unique point of time. God does not act capriciously. For what purpose, then, has He made us part of one another’s lives in this year? I invite us all to move forward this year with the realization that God intends something for each one of us to do, something which only that individual person can do. This consideration is both exhilarating and sobering — God trusts us with His plan. The specific task that God gives each person constitutes that individual’s duty. No two duties are identical, just as no two persons are identical. However, I wish to highlight some common points to the specific duties that God has given us:

Our duties call us to act AMDG, to the greater glory of God. We are to seek earnestly God’s will and thus to grow in our imitation of Jesus, who in Gethsemane prayed, “Not my will but Thy will be done.”

Our duties focus us on the principal task of Jesuit, which is first and finally a school. As a place of Catholic education, Jesuit seeks growth in knowledge and skills, but also in the wisdom and principles to use these attainments well — the matter of a life-long education.

Our duties form us into a community. Whenever we say, “It’s not about me,” we can be confident that we are performing the duty we have received from God. We rightly expect to receive support from others; just so, we should rightly expect to give support to others — even, or especially, when such support calls for sacrifice.

Our duties lead us to service. Jesus is again our model, He who came not to be served but to serve.

I will make some guarantees for all of us. Performing our duties will often be difficult. Performing our duties will mean that none of us will always get what he wants and that all of us will have to do something that we would not have chosen. Performing our duties will demand that we choose what we should do rather than what we would like to do. In this line, I’ve found Jesuit’s mission statement enlightening. In an alliterative passage, it notes that Jesuit seeks to form men of “competence, conscience, and compassion.” We would do well to note that two other “C” words, convenience and comfort, are not a part of Jesuit’s mission. I will venture two other guarantees. First, we will receive support from others at Jesuit. I continue to find such help here, and I have witnessed it countless times in others’ lives. Part of our God-given duty is to make it easier for others to do what God demands of them. Second, we draw encouragement from the awareness that it is God Himself who enables us to perform the tasks He has assigned to us. In the Church’s ordination ritual, the bishop prays for the men being ordained priests: “May God, who has begun this good work in you, now bring it to fulfillment.” As we progress in the good work of the 2011-12 school year, let us pray for one another that we all receive and act upon the grace to fulfill our duty. n

— Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J. ’76President, Jesuit High School

How Will We Use the Special Gift of Time to Perform Our Duties and Help One Another?

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“So, what do you think about your new job?” I have been asked this question not infrequently in recent weeks. My most honest answer is, “I consider myself very fortunate, and I am grateful to be here.” I value the legacy of those who have guided Jesuit High School for 164 years. Jesuit is a strong school with a dedicated faculty and an excellent classical curriculum. Jesuit’s facilities are in solid shape — and we look forward to a first-rate, multi-sports complex and field when the John Ryan Stadium is completed in the next few weeks.

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Peter Canisius was born Peter Kanis on May 8, 1521 in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, at the time the largest city in the Netherlands located within the Archdiocese of Cologne. Peter showed early potential in academics and he earned a Master of Arts degree at Cologne University at the age of 19. The son of Jakob Kanis, who was the long-time burgomaster (mayor) of Nijmegen and an accomplished tutor, Peter respected

his father’s wish that he study canon law at Louvain. After a few months of this, though, he decided that the legal profession was not for him and he returned to Cologne to study theology.

During an Ignatian retreat with Blessed Peter Faber, senior disciple of St. Ignatius of Loyola and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, Peter decided to join the new order, thus becoming its first Dutch vocation. Even in his years of formation, he wrote extensively and became known for his considerable linguistic skills. He participated in the Diet of Worms in 1545 (an assembly held in the German city of Worms) at the request of the two Jesuit theologians who were attending it. He was ordained to the priesthood a year later. Following the example of his early mentor, Peter Faber, Canisius quickly became known for his preaching. After the Diet of Worms, Peter attended two sessions of the Council of Trent, made his solemn profession in the order in 1549, and was then sent to back to Germany. For the next 30 years, he worked to renew the Catholic Church there, which had been devastated by the Protestant Reformation. He did this through

Matthew Clark, a Blue Jay alumnus who is a priest and a Benedictine

monk, tells the inspiring story of St. Peter Canisius, S.J.

St. Peter Canisius, S.J. (1521–1597)by Matthew Clark, O.S.B. ’76

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constant preaching and ministry, founding and supervising Jesuit colleges throughout the region, and publishing a Catechism which became immensely popular and influential. An effective administrator and diplomat, Peter influenced Catholic leaders of his day to implement the reforms of Trent, and he eventually served as the Jesuit Provincial for the region. In his final assignment to Switzerland in 1580, Peter founded yet another Jesuit college which eventually became the University of Fribourg. After suffering a stroke in 1591, Peter continued to write and perform housework chores in his Fribourg community until his peaceful death on December 21, 1597. Peter was beatified by Blessed Pius IX in 1864, and later canonized and declared a Doctor of the Church on May 21, 1925 by Pope Pius XI. Since 1969, his feast day is celebrated on the anniversary of his death. What is endearing about this tireless “2nd Apostle to Germany” was his attitude about the work he was called to do by the Jesuits. Obviously, Peter spent a great deal of time in administration work and was considered highly talented in this aspect of ministry. However, it is clear that whether or not he personally disliked this administrative aspect of his assignments, he strongly preferred what we would call today “pastoral care.” Wherever he was stationed, in whatever capacity, Peter participated in preaching at Sunday Mass and in retreat work. He would seek out all opportunities to minister to the young, the aged, the sick, and the poor. Peter famously participated in “prison ministry” — counseling, comforting, and praying for the incarcerated, especially those condemned to execution, even accompanying them to the gallows. Peter’s motivation was from a deep friendship with Christ and a powerful devotion to the Blessed Virgin. It is said that in the midst of his activity, he would spend up to seven hours a day in personal prayer. Peter’s heart, simple and humble, was always in the right place. The life and work of St. Peter Canisius have had a profound impact on my life and work. First, St. Peter Canisius’s work exhibited the best of what the reforms of the Council of Trent offered to the Catholic Church of the 16th century. In my years of graduate theological study at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, I spent a great deal of time researching the Reformation period and the Catholic response to the reform movement, the Council of Trent. I came to appreciate the spirit of reform and renewal which the Council of Trent brought to Catholic life at that time. St. Peter stands as a powerful advocate of that renewal on all levels. His ministry reached out to those who were faltering in their own Catholic identity and knowledge of their faith. His concern was equally focused on the many people in Germany at the time who, disgusted with polemical rancor and wars of religion, were abandoning the practice of religion of any kind altogether. His humble manner and spirit of Christian equanimity in the midst of a tumultuous age — preferring discussion and persuasion to polemics and denunciation — remains an important example for all concerned about the renewal of religious faith and life in our own time. Additionally, one of St. Peter’s most important influences has had a direct impact on my own life and ministry as a Benedictine monk and priest.

Church leaders at the time of the Reformation, as well as modern historians, share a common consensus — one of the greatest factors in the breakdown of Catholic life was the generally poor formation and education of the parish clergy. Usually apprenticed to pastors, many parish clergy were ill prepared for the challenges of priestly life, and the quality of their training was hit-and-miss at best. Surely there were a few examples of dedication and holiness throughout this period, but the corporate failure of pastoral leadership was corrosive to Catholic life. In response to this situation, the Council of Trent directed that a “seminary system” be established to train clergy. Such training focused on the seminarian’s academic skills and his spiritual character, both of which were requisites that enabled him to be effective and faithful in his priestly life. St. Peter shared the Council’s analysis of this situation with Europe’s clergy. On two notable occasions in 1573 and 1576, his influential reports won the enthusiastic allegiance of Pope Gregory XIII, along with numerous important Church and lay leaders, to the cause of seminary reform. Most of my own monastic and priestly career has been dedicated to the work of seminary formation at St. Joseph Seminary College, where I work in administration and teach theology. Some may find it ironic that our Benedictine monastery on the Northshore, along with others throughout the United States, is devoted to advancing the legacy of a Jesuit saint. But we do so enthusiastically. May the example and prayers of St. Peter Canisius, a true “man for others,” inspire us all in whatever walk of life to pray and work for a renewal of Catholic life.  n

Rev. Matthew R. Clark, O.S.B. is a Jesuit alumnus from the Class of 1976. He currently serves as vice-rector and director of alumni affairs at St. Joseph Abbey and Seminary College, located in Covington. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Matthew teaches theology and is an assistant organist. He received a B.A. from St. Joseph’s Seminary College and his M.A.Th. from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans.

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Jesuit schools across the country are calling Carrollton and Banks for advice on annual giving and for good reason. While many schools struggle to match past giving levels, Jesuit New Orleans is celebrating increases across the board.

Jesuit parents donated $1,083,000 — an increase of four percent over last year’s total. Donations by alumni totaled $1,139,000 — setting a new school record for alumni giving, an increase of 18 percent over the previous year. Even more impressive was the participation rate. Considerably more alumni donated in 2010-2011 than last year, 431 to be exact — a bump of 14 percent. William T. “Bill” Steen ’68 served as the chairman of the 2010-2011 Parents’ Annual Giving drive. Raymond A. “Rocky” Daigle ’85 led the 2010-2011 Living Endowment Fund campaign. “Bill and Rocky did an outstanding job of connecting our parents and alumni with each other and Jesuit High School, and for that I am deeply grateful,” said Jesuit president Fr. Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J. ’76. Additions to the 2010-2011 LEF effort included prioritized contact cards and the personal invitation of LEF callers, which led to a dramatic increase in the number of people calling to connect with their classmates. A total of 415 alumni returned to campus over seven nights — 23 percent more callers than in the prior fiscal year. “We let our volunteers know that our calls are now more about connecting with classmates than about dialing for dollars,” said Daigle. “Success is measured by the amount of meaningful conversations that take place, rather than pledges alone, and that shift in focus sets the stage for even greater success in the future.” The last night of calling included two final surprises. Members of the Student Council’s executive board were invited

to join the alumni, not to make calls, but to “peek behind the curtain” of the apparatus that keeps Jesuit accessible and affordable. And everyone was treated to sizzling steaks grilled on the premises by Max Gruenig ’06. It was a delicious end that literally and symbolically left a great taste in the mouths of Blue Jays who participated in this important annual campaign. “If you’re going to be successful, it is important to have strong volunteer leadership, but equally important to be willing to listen and implement the good ideas they propose,” said Tom Bagwill, who is Jesuit’s director of institutional advancement. “We are blessed to have engaged, passionate parents and alumni who give of their time and talent to secure the resources necessary to fulfill Jesuit’s mission of forming men of faith and men for others.”  n■

Bill Steen ’68 (left photo), who served as the 2010-11 PAG drive chairman, addresses Blue Jays at a morning Assembly. In the right photo, Rocky Daigle (second from left), served as chairman of the 2010-11 LEF drive. He made it through the spring phone campaign with a little help from his Class of ’85 friends, Bobby Comeaux (left), Brian Illg, and Ewell Smith.

Parent Donations Alumni Giving Sets New Record

HOW TO GET INVOLVED IN THE

LEF DRIVE…

Visit the LEF drive home page on Jesuit’s web site: www.jesuitnola.org.

Sign-up Online to volunteer for theLEF Fall Phone Drive Tuesday, November 1 – Thursday, November 3, 2011

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These four beaming teachers at Jesuit High School were recently honored as recipients of the 4th annual Profile of a Jesuit Teacher Award, which was created to recognize and reward excellence among faculty members. The 2010-11 honorees are, from left, Jason Giaccone, who teaches fine arts and serves as assistant director of the Blue Jay Marching Band. Mr. Giaccone also moderates the video games club, WJHS-TV, and co-moderates audio-video projects. Joe Knight is a veteran teacher of Latin and is chairman of the classics department. He serves as co-moderator of the philosophy club and also moderates the junior varsity quiz bowl team. Jeremy Reuther, who is a Jesuit alumnus from the Class of 2001, teaches several Christianity courses while also serving as chairman of the theology department. Aurora Daigle is an experienced guidance counselor and previously has served as the department chair. She currently counsels Blue Jay freshmen and moderates the ping-pong club. Teachers are nominated by their colleagues, who apply

the following standards established in “The Profile of a Jesuit Teacher” — Open to Growth, Religious, Loving, Intellectually and Professionally Competent, and Committed to Justice. The honorees are selected by a committee of administrators and teachers, all of whom are ineligible to be nominated. Honorees are announced at the faculty dinner which is held at the end of the school year. Each honoree receives a handsome commemorative plaque and pockets a check in the amount of $2,500, which helps to explain those four extremely happy faces. n

One way in which Jesuit’s alumni give back to their alma mater is to talk straight to current Blue Jays and offer sound, practical, and no-nonsense advice about possible career choices. At the annual Career Day held one morning last April, 35 alumni representing some 25 different careers gathered in St. Ignatius Hall. They sipped coffee and grabbed a pastry before scattering to their assigned classrooms. In two one-hour sessions, these alumni presented matter-of-fact and unvarnished overviews of their own careers to Blue Jay juniors and seniors who had expressed an interest in possibly following in their footsteps. At the same time alums were imparting career advice, Jesuit alumnus Kenneth Purcell ’92 engaged underclassmen with a fascinating story behind the creation and growth of his New Orleans-based technology company, iSeatz, which he founded in 1999. Purcell serves as the CEO of iSeatz, which has 50 employees and sells software to clients in the travel and entertainment indusries. Purcell said Katrina forced him to re-locate his company from New Orleans to New York City. But in 2007, iSeatz returned to the Crescent City and established offices on Magazine Street near Lafayette Square. According to Purcell, the location gives iSeatz “social capital” that attracts talent and business partners. n

View the Career Day Photo Gallery on Jesuit’s web site: http://www.jesuitnola.org/formation/CareerDay_2011_PhotoGallery_0406.htm.

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Parent Donations Alumni Giving Sets New Record

Profile of a Jesuit Teacher AwardQuartet of Jesuit Educators Honored by Their Peers

Kenneth Purcell ’92

Walter J. Baudier, the father of a Blue Jay alumnus, was honored as a recipient of the Homines Pro Aliis Award, given annually by the Jesuit Southern Province whose various ministries have benefitted from the involvement of dedicated individuals. Walter was recognized for his engineering work and wise counsel regarding construction projects at Jesuit High School. Walter, who is president of Design Engineering, has been involved in virtually every construction project at Jesuit — the Student Commons, the Traditions Courtyard, St. Ignatius Hall, the auditorium, science labs, and new windows. He also was part of a team of professionals who assisted with the post-Katrina reconstruction of Jesuit. He is currently assisting with the construction of John Ryan Stadium, Jesuit’s new athletic facility which is nearing completion. He is a longtime member of the President’s Advisory Council and was recently appointed to the school’s Board of Directors. n

Dedicated to Jesuit, Blue Jay Parent Walter Baudier Honored with Homines Pro Aliis Award

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junior varsity teams for several years. As a student, Harris excelled at the sport and enjoys the

distinction of being one of only seven Blue Jay wrestlers to win three consecutive individual state championships. “Our team will miss the 11 senior starters who were on the 2010-11 wrestling squad,” Harris said, adding “it will be a challenge to fill those empty weight classes. Fortunately, I am surrounded by a dedicated group of young men who are eager to step in.” Jesuit wrestling home page: http://

www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/wrestling.htm.

A Disappointing Basketball Season The 2010-11 basketball team was a scrappy

and competitive group of Blue Jays. But disappointing seasons happen. This was one of them. The team compiled an overall record of 11 wins and 21 losses — in district play, the Jays won 3 but lost 5 games. The record, however, shows that several of the games were lost by a narrow margin

of 1 to 3 or 4 points. There were few blowouts. What is promising is that 8 of the 12-member squad are

returning for the 2011-12 season in addition to players moving up from junior varsity. There is talent on that roster and head basketball coach Chris Jennings ’78 will have his players fired up and ready to play. Jesuit Basketball home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/basketball.htm.

Soccer Team Drops a Shoe Of course, it was only a matter of time. Jesuit soccer staked a claim that the Blue Jays, undefeated in 94 matches spanning three seasons, held the longest unbeaten streak in prep soccer in the country. The Blue Jays’ unbeaten streak went no further than 94 matches. It came to a screeching halt courtesy of St. Paul’s in the championship match played on February 26 at Tad Gormley Stadium. Early in the season, the Jays and the Wolves played a wild match on St. Paul’s turf, and Jesuit was fortunate to escape with a 1-0 victory. No such luck for the Jays in the championship match. By the time the first half ended scoreless,

Change Comes to WrestlingThe 2010-11 wrestling team placed second in the state tournament in which two senior Blue Jays claimed individual state titles — Jay Ferro (112) and David Mahoney (130), both of whom were selected, along with senior Chris Johnson (135), by The Times-Picayune to its All-Metro Wrestling Team. Additionally, Ferro and Mahoney were named to the 2011 Wrestling USA Honorable Mention Team. Since 1987, the Jays have never finished less than second place at the state tournament. Such a record is a testament to the athletes and coaches who have dedicated themselves to the sport and to the depth and strength of Jesuit’s wrestling program. Near the end of the school year, change occurred when Carlos Bertot ’86 announced he was leaving Jesuit. He became head coach after Katrina and over the next six years, brought home two state titles. He personally addressed a large gathering of Blue Jay wrestlers in Jesuit’s gymnasium, explaining that his decision to leave was his own choice and that he intended to devote the necessary time to pursue personal objectives, including relisting in the National Guard and studying for a masters degree. Soon thereafter, Spencer Harris ’89 was named head wrestling coach. He is already well-grounded in the school’s stellar program, having coached Jesuit’s

Another Record Year!

2010-11 Varsity Sports Teams Brought Home 8 District Titles, 5 State Championships, and 3 State Runners-up Trophies

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observant Jesuit fans sensed something askew. They had become accustomed to the Blue Jays whipping up an offensive blitz in the first half that left opponents dizzy, stunned, and unable to recover. The team averaged four goals per match and seemed to score at will. The Jays were seemingly not in sync. The fire in their bellies appeared to have been extinguished. Intensity levels had dropped. It seemed that the pressure to keep the winning streak alive was too much and this may have been a contributing factor to Jesuit players losing their focus. Head soccer coach Hubie Collins and his runner-up Blue Jays still had a terrific season. The team posted an overall record of 29-1-2, racked up 123 goals, and had 23 shutouts. Their opponents scored only 7 goals. Seniors Brian Barbara and Steven Cabos were named to the LHSSCA Division 1 All-State Team. The Times-Picayune All-Metro Team included senior Bradley James, Phil Hicks ’12, and Cabos, who, for the second year in a row, was recognized as the Offensive Player of the Year.   Jesuit Soccer home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/soccer.htm.

Bowling Arrives Jesuit fielded a bowling team for the first time since the LHSAA officially sanctioned it as a competitive sport. The Blue Jay bowlers enjoyed a successful inaugural year, especially given the fact that the varsity squad had seven participants. The team went to the state tournament in Baton Rouge last April but was eliminated in the quarterfinals. Coached by Jesuit English teacher Gary Wyss, the bowling team posted a respectable 11-4 record. All average scores are based on six games bowled. Leading the 2010-11 team were senior Ryan Beard (203), sophomore Andrew Prejean (214), and junior Corey Ledet (235). Jesuit Bowling home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/bowling.htm.

Track Team Led by Jarvis HarrisThe 2011 Jesuit track team experienced a successful season that culminated with a fourth place finish (out of 34 teams) at the LHSAA State Track Meet at LSU in Baton Rouge. Blue Jay senior Jarvis Harris earned individual state titles in two events — the 300-meter hurdles and the triple jump. He finished as the runner-up in the 110-meter hurdles. Jarvis’s efforts helped the team win the 2011 Catholic League District Championship and the 2011 LHSAA Regional Championship. The team is coached by Richard Bohn III, who teaches P. E. and computer science. The Times-Picayune recognized Jarvis’s accomplishments in the triple jump and the 110 and 300-meter hurdles. The Clarion Herald cited Jarvis for his performance in jumps and hurdles. The Clarion also honored senior Forrest Earls with a spot on the elite squad for his shot put skills. Jarvis was a valedictorian of the Class of 2011 and attends Harvard University where he continues to hone his academic and athletic talents. Read about Jarvis’s accomplishments on the Jesuit web site: http://www.jesuitnola.org/jesdata/pdf/Scholarship_JarvisHarris_Resume2.pdf. Track Team home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/track.htm.

Golf Team Hat Trick: Jays Win District, Regional, State Jesuit’s varsity golf team, under the tutelage of coach Chad Laborde ’98, claimed its second consecutive state title in May at the Links on the Bayou in Alexandria. As a team, the Blue Jays won by 17 strokes over their nearest competitor. Senior Myles Lewis capped a fantastic golf career at Jesuit. Lewis was hoping to become the first prep golfer in Louisiana to win four consecutive individual golf titles. He gave it a great run and finished second in the tournament. Coach Laborde says there is no reason for Myles to be disappointed. “Three state championships and a second place finish,” said Laborde. “That’s quite a legacy. And he really competed like a champion. I thought he was going to win it.” Myles, who is currently attending LSU on a golf scholarship, was recognized

as a New Orleans Prep Voodoo Player of the Week. WGNO sportscaster Ed Daniels aired a story when the tournament was over and interviewed this talented Blue Jay golfer: http://www.abc26.com/videobeta/0399a5e5-e563-4672-946e-98adb85d22d6/Sports/This-week-s-New-Orleans-Voodoo-Athlete-of-the-week-   Golf Team home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/Golf_2010_2011_Season_Archive.htm.

Another Record Year!

2010-11 Varsity Sports Teams Brought Home 8 District Titles, 5 State Championships, and 3 State Runners-up Trophies

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Construction of John Ryan Stadium is almost completed. From the air, with its artificial turf newly installed, the stadium looks spectacular. It’s a first class athletic facility Jesuit can be proud of. Mark your calendars for the grand opening ceremonies scheduled the weekend of March 2-4. Blue Jay athletes will be using the stadium and field long before spring. Watch the web site for the latest news about John Ryan Stadium.

Baseball Wins State!The 2011 Jesuit baseball team emerged from a grueling season as

state champions. In the title game,

the Jays scored all five of their runs in the first inning. They

managed to hang tough to defeat the Lafayette

Mighty Lions, 5-4, at Tulane’s Turchin Stadium.

Blue Jays who earned post season honors were seniors Tony Fortier-Bensen (shortstop) and Bubby Riley (outfield), and junior Emerson Gibbs (pitcher). The trio was named to the “All-State Baseball Team,” selected by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association. Senior Josh Faciane (3rd base), who earned honorable mention, was awarded a scholarship to play baseball at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Named to The Times-Picayune’s “All-Metro Team” were Faciane, Fortier-Bensen, Gibbs, and Riley. Earning a spot on the “All-District” squad were the above named players plus junior Armand Daigle (outfielder) and seniors Jonathan Lee (infielder), Kyle Keller (pitcher), and Luke Voiron (catcher). Fortier-Bensen was honored as the “District Player of the Year.”

In his first full year coaching Jesuit’s varsity baseball team, Joey Latino was honored as the All-State, All-Metro, and All-District Coach of the Year. Latino is also Jesuit’s assistant athletic director and he teaches science.

Photo Gallery of State Championship Game: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/Baseball_11_LafayettePO_Championship0514.htm Baseball Team home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/baseball.htm.

American Legion Baseball: Jesuit’s Retif Oil State Runner-upRetif Oil, looking sharp throughout the summer league, suffered a rare knock down in the state championship game. After winning district and regional, Retif Oil was the team to beat in the American Legion state tournament at Kirsch Rooney Stadium. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate. The rain was unrelenting and forced postponement of several games.

The bad weather ruined the field at Kirsch Rooney and forced relocation of the tournament to the artificial turf field at Chalmette High School. In the game for the championship, Retif Oil fell to Gauthier-Amedee, 5-3. American Legion – Retif Oil home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/legionbaseball.htm. 

Tennis Team Nets 4th Consecutive State TitleIn winning the 2011 state tennis title, the

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In the closing weeks of the 2011 season, Blue Jay alumni Johnny Giavotella ’05 and Ryan Adams ’06 suddenly found themselves

playing second base for two different major league baseball teams. “Gio” played 46 games with the Kansas City Royals and had 178 “at bats” that yielded 44 hits, including two home runs, four triples, and nine doubles. His batting average was .247. Ryan was called up earlier in the summer for a brief stay with the Baltimore Orioles but was sent back to his triple-A team, only to be summoned again with two weeks left in the season. He played in 29 games, had 89 “at bats” that produced 25 hits, including four doubles. Ryan’s batting average was .281. Ryan

is the ninth Blue Jay to play major league baseball and Gio is the tenth. This is only the second time that two Jesuit alumni were simultaneously playing in the majors. The first time this happened was at the end of the 1978 and 1979 seasons. Back then, the illustrious career of Rusty Staub ’61, known as Le Grand Orange, intersected with the brief career of Jimmy Gaudet ’73. Check the web sites of the Royals and Orioles for information about Gio and Ryan, respectively. n

Jesuit varsity tennis team netted its 16th such championship over the past 17 years. The tournament was held May 2-3 at the new City Park tennis courts along Marconi Drive. Sophomore Hobie Hotard won his second consecutive individual state championship. In the match for the doubles championship, it was Blue Jays versus Blue Jays with juniors Thomas Crumley and Dylan Kennedy defeating their sophomore teammates Trevor Lew and James Sampognaro. As a team, the Jays scored 22 points to the 11 points for the second place team. The Blue Jays are coached by Jerry Hernandez. Jesuit Tennis home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/athletics/tennis.htm

Rugby Club Best in StateAt the State Rugby Tournament held at Pan American Stadium in City Park in April, Jesuit defeated the Rummel Raiders, 64-0, to advance to the finals against the Shaw Eagles. The Jays won this title match, 17-7, to advance to the Rugby Regionals in Orlando. At the regionals, the Blue Jays placed a respectable third. Players whose efforts propelled the Rugby Club were juniors Jeremy Kozel, Jeff Mauras, Andrew Giorlando, and senior Matt Redmann.

Congratulations to all rugby players for a great season! Jesuit Rugby home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/extra/rugby.htm.

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Jesuit Lacrosse Season Ends in Semifinal PlayoffsJesuit’s varsity lacrosse team played a tenacious game in the semifinals against St. More, but the Jays fell short in their effort to the Cougars, 11-3. Congratulations to the coaches and the athletes involved in the popular lacrosse program for a great season. Jesuit Lacrosse home page: http://www.jesuitnola.org/extra/lacrosse.htm. n

Ryan Adams

Athletic director Dave Moreau with “Gio” at a Zephyrs Game days before the Blue Jay was called up to the big league.

Hundreds of Blue Jay alumni, parents, students, and friends set aside a couple of hours in the afternoon on Sunday, May 23, 2011 to attend a no-frills “Thank You” reception in the Student Commons in honor of Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J. At the time, Fr. McGinn was one week away from officially completing 19 years of extraordinary service as the president of Jesuit High School, the longest tenure of any Jesuit CEO since the school relocated in 1926 to Carrollton & Banks. The Jesuit community learned in July 2009 that Fr. McGinn would be leaving his alma mater at the end of the 2009-10 school year. A search to find his successor was immediately begun by Jesuit’s board of directors and in January 2010, it was officially announced that Fr. Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J., who graduated from Jesuit in 1976, 10 years behind Fr. McGinn, would become the school’s next president. At the same time, it was announced that Fr. McGinn agreed to remain as president through the 2010-11 school year to ensure a smoother transition for Fr. Fitzgerald, whose responsibilities as the Socius for the Southern Province would not be completed until January 2011. Rather than initiate a potentially chaotic transition in the middle of the school year, it was agreed that Fr. Fitzgerald’s term as Jesuit’s next president would begin June 1, 2011. Fr. McGinn’s new assignment is based in St. Louis and involves overseeing the eventual merger of the Missouri and Southern Provinces. At the reception in his honor, Fr. McGinn did his best not to show up. But he did. He never was comfortable with a reception in his honor, but reluctantly he relented because, as former Jesuit director of development Ardley Hanemann ’61 put it, “It’s not about you, Tony. This event is really for us to thank you and to tell you how much we appreciate what you have accomplished.” When doors opened to the Student Commons, it did not take long for guests to form a “receiving line,” which actually worked to Fr. McGinn’s advantage and provided him the opportunities to greet virtually every person who came to Jesuit for the event. That afternoon, he said goodbye to many alumni, parents, and former students. The one part of the reception that Fr. McGinn would just as soon have skipped involved a brief address by Malcolm Villarrubia ’66. The two classmates were also Jesuit scholastics before Malcolm decided to take the left fork while Tony chose to journey down the right fork. Mal is an English teacher who also serves as Jesuit’s director of professional development. He has worked at the school for 33 years. Fr. McGinn was not worried that Mal would say something embarrassing. It is just that Fr. McGinn does not enjoy the limelight. In fact, he loves to despise the attention. Below are the addresses given that afternoon by Villarrubia, Fr. McGinn, and Fr. Fitzgerald. Listen to the speeches on Jesuit’s web site: http://www.jesuitnola.org/about/Fr_McGinn_Farewell_Reception_Audio_Video_Page_052211.htm

Malcolm Villarrubia… I think I’ve hardly been to a wedding where there the reception line was as long as it was today.

It’s certainly abundantly clear the great regard and affection we have for Father Tony McGinn by the great turnout today. I’m both humbled and delighted to have been asked to say a few words about Tony and his wonderful impact, his leadership here at Jesuit High School. Yes, Tony and I do go back a long way. But even that’s an understatement. To put it in perspective, I’ve known Tony longer than I’ve known my wife of 32 years. Forty-five years ago in May of 1966, Tony and I sat on the Municipal Auditorium stage to receive our Jesuit diplomas. And those of you familiar with the Jesuit graduation know how it works. In the very front rows are the accelerated honor students, the really smart guys. It’s no surprise that Tony was in the front row — he was a National Merit Finalist and a member of the class of 4A. I think 4A stood for all the years Tony had gotten all A’s. I was a member of the class of 4F. Yes, that means exactly what you think it means. But I did make it onto the stage. I was in the last row with the potted plants. Tony was also at my wedding in Southampton, England and a few years later he baptized my elder son, Malcolm. But even on that Baptismal day some 29 years ago, there were already hints of Tony’s

future greatness. At the party after the Baptism, my niece, who was 5-years-old at the time, approached Tony, who was wearing a Roman collar, and said to him, “I know who you are.” And Tony, a bit intrigued, said, “Who do you think I am?” And she replied, “God.” She would have been in the front row of graduation. Anyone who knows Tony well knows that out of all of us here, he’s the one who least wants to be here right now. Public praise makes him uncomfortable. Of course, this is one of the reasons we admire him. He detests self-promotion. Even though this evening, Tony, may be about you, it’s an important occasion for us because we need to thank you and we also need briefly to reflect upon the significant things you’ve done for Jesuit. Nineteen years ago Tony was sent here on a mission to serve as president. In the latter part of St. Ignatius’s life, he sat in his offices in Rome and wrote numerous letters to his fellow Jesuits who had been to missions all over the world. Instructing the missionaries, Ignatius said, “The workers of the society should have only one foot touching earth, the other always being raised to begin a journey.” Tony, at least for another week or so, still has one foot firmly

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planted here at Jesuit. But the other foot is already raised and it’s ready to move to St. Louis. But that’s not the way I want to understand the Ignatius line today. To me, Ignatius first speaks of connectedness, the foot that’s always touching the earth. And then Ignatius speaks of challenge, the foot that’s unsettled and is poised to begin a journey. For the past 19 years, Tony has kept us connected and has challenged us all. As we know, after Katrina, Tony quickly worked with the president of Strake Jesuit in Houston to set up a second session for some 420 Blue Jays. Students and faculty and families met at the Parsley Center on Sunday afternoon after Katrina had devastated our city and our school. We gathered for Mass and for information. There we were, parents and children, faculty and Blue Jays, overwhelmed with questions and anxieties. Is my home livable? Can I afford to rebuild? Do I still have a job? Will we ever gather for morning Assembly in the Traditions Courtyard again? Emotions were at a tipping point. We all felt very disconnected from New Orleans, from our homes, and from Carrollton and Banks. And then Tony approached the podium. Tony rarely shows emotion, but he choked up and he had to pause to breathe. And then he told us in a firm voice, “We will be back.” In those emotional and prophetic words, Tony offered us the hope once again of being connected. We now know that Tony and the board of directors had already at that point made two key decisions: first, to continue to pay the faculty in order to keep them together as long as possible; second, to be one of the very first schools to return to devastated New Orleans. What Tony and the board were determined to do was to reconnect us to Jesuit, not just to its buildings, but more importantly, to the very culture and traditions of Jesuit New Orleans — to Blue Jay spirit that we love and cherish so much. Of course, many of us have heard Tony tell that story differently, that he really continued to pay the faculty because he was afraid of the faculty. But Tony is a wise man. He knew that while our buildings are where our Blue Jay culture resides, it’s our faculty and staff who impart our Blue Jay culture, its traditions, and its practices. Without them, of course, life would be very different. Lose our faculty and we would lose much of our connectedness. With one foot firmly planted on the earth here at Carrollton and Banks for 19 stable years, Tony McGinn has shown us what connected means at Jesuit High School. It’s the connection to the wider community that Tony values, with our students coming from

almost 60 different zip codes across the region. It’s the connectedness that Tony feels with parents by keeping tuition low and Jesuit accessible. It’s the connectedness that Tony builds when every day he’s out with the boys before school, during the breaks, after school, at their games, their competitions, and their concerts. As Tony has said, “Every minute at my desk is a wasted minute.” It’s the connectedness Tony shows by his presence at our weddings and funerals. A funeral director recently told me that he could always count on two people showing up at every funeral in New Orleans — Tony McGinn and the deceased. You know it’s true. If our connectedness, as St. Ignatius has said and as Tony has shown us, is that one foot always touching earth, then I’d like to think that the other foot, the one always raised to begin a journey, represents the personal challenges that he has always put before us all — parents, students, faculty, and alumni. Tony tells us repeatedly to eschew elitism and self-indulgence, to have confidence but never arrogance, to have conviction but never contempt, to have care for ourselves but never self-pity, to risk failure for the sake of growth and success. You would think that the president of a school that has 28 National Merit Finalists, eight district championships, and five state championships just this year would be crowing from the rooftops. But his own humility has been a constant counter-balance to our temptation to inordinate pride and elitism. Following St. Ignatius’s instructions, Tony has always kept us connected to, and challenged by, the sole mission of Jesuit High School — the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth of our boys, my sons and your sons. So yes, by our presence here, we thank and honor Tony McGinn. But a greater tribute from us who remain here as Tony journeys elsewhere would be for us to continue to carry forward the spirit of connectedness and challenge that he has modeled for us for 19 years. Father McGinn, Tony, we wholeheartedly thank you for your 19 years of service and what you have done for Jesuit High School. In closing, I would like to harken back to our days of studying theology together. And in the name of the entire Jesuit community and of all of us gathered here this evening, I’d like to say, “Father, may the Lord bless and keep you, may His face shine upon you, may He give you peace in your new mission.” n

— Malcolm Villarrubia ’66  

As you well know, as Malcolm referred, this makes me very uncomfortable for two reasons. One, there’s been so much left undone and I really need to apologize for all the things I didn’t get around to doing. That’s why it’s important to change leadership because the next person coming in will take care of things the one before

him didn’t for whatever reason. I’m also uncomfortable because, as Malcolm said, I have an absolute disordered hatred of self-promotion and even self-promoters, unfortunately I admit to you. Self-promotion, connected with self-deception, is what leads us to the lunatic fringe that I talked about in that article in

the last Jaynotes. When the self-deceivers and the self-promoters get together, they take the mission and then it degenerates into the agenda. That’s what I’ve been trying to avoid in my own life and the life of Jesuit High School. I hope I’ve been somewhat successful. There are so many people to thank,

Fr. McGinn…

In chapter 17 of Luke’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples just say we’re unprofitable servants and we’ve only done our duty. So that’s my theme.

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And on his tomb are in Latin words which translate, “If you seek his monument, look around you.” In many ways, well, Father McGinn’s health is considerably better than that of Christopher Wren’s at this point, we could say that today. We could refer certainly to the place, the fact that we have this place where we are to stand in is a monument to him. Look around you. We could say that even more of the people. Look around you. The number, the diversity, the collected history of Jesuit that is here today is a fit monument. But I would suggest to you that in Father McGinn’s case, a more apt phrase would be: “If you seek his monument, look within you.” The legacy of principled leadership that he hands to us is one that has helped to shape us from within, to seek, to find, and to do God’s will; to learn and to live by the plan that God has for each of us. As Sister Camille Anne (president of Mt. Carmel Academy) said so rightly, he is a Jesuit. He is a Jesuit who has been missioned by the society in service of the Church to be a teacher and an administrator. He is a Jesuit priest. Anyone connected with the school by his very nature, by the

very nature of the school, is seeking to lay a foundation for the future. Our purpose here is to help young men — who will live in a future that we will not see — to have a solid foundation moving forward into that future. As a priest, he has called us to listen to and to seek the spiritual freedom to live by God’s plan for us. And so as we move to a time of transition, we do so having been formed within with one of the great lessons that Father McGinn has given us, as have so many of his predecessors over the more than century and a half that we have been here. And indeed, as Malcolm said, going back to Ignatius — to seek to move forward in freedom, to know and to live by God’s plan for us, a plan that has brought Tony here for so many years as student, as teacher, as principal, and as president, a plan that now leads him to serve the Church and the society in another capacity. God’s plan has brought us together, God’s power sustains that plan, God’s providence keeps us linked. And so a clear and firm foundation for which I am profoundly grateful has been laid for the future. If you seek his monument, look within you. n

—Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J. ’76

Fr. Fitzgerald…

If you journey to London to St. Paul’s Cathedral, you will see the place where Christopher Wren, who designed the cathedral, is buried.

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primarily the students of Jesuit High School. Each generation of students brings something to the school and each student makes

the school different, makes the school stronger. I appreciate all those students who are currently at Jesuit High School. I thank the faculty, especially those who have been here through my 19 years. It’s because of the faculty that we have the school that we have, and the leadership that they have given, and the generosity, service, and self-sacrifice that so many teachers have made to make Jesuit High School what it is. We would not be who we are without them and I am very grateful to them.

I thank our parents, who by the support of their children and by the support of the mission of the school, have done so much to build us up into the community that we are. Of course, I thank the alumni of Jesuit High School, who feel gratitude to what Jesuit has done for them in their lives and how they need to continue that mission as it goes on. And, of course, the Jesuit community, the Jesuit priests and brothers who have been so helpful to me. They provided me the support, and the correction at times, that was needed to lead this institution. I like to single out two of my predecessors — Paul Schott and Harry Tompson — for all that they did to make Jesuit High School what it is. I feel all I’ve done is just polish the brass and dot the I’s and cross the T’s because they were the ones who really made Jesuit what it is today. In

fact, both of them together rescued Jesuit High School from the brink of the precipice and we owe both those men a tremendous sense of gratitude. The reason I’m leaving is because so much has been left undone and that’s why it’s important to move on. One of the words that I always use is continuity. That’s why I’m so delighted that we have continuity in my successor, Raymond Fitzgerald, who will continue to do what Jesuit High School has been doing over these many years. When we need to talk about planning for the future in the next year, he and I are on the same page on all the basic values of Jesuit High School. So we can rest assured that we have a leader at Jesuit High School who will do much better because he will address those things that for whatever reason I didn’t get around to. n

— Anthony McGinn, S.J. ’66  

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CLASS OF 2005A man who is much wiser than I once said, “Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.” Not all of your dreams will be fulfilled, not all of your goals will be met, not all of your ambitions will be accomplished. Disappointment, frustration, and defeat are as much a part of your future as are success, accomplishments, and personal satisfaction... Fortunately, God created us with a tremendous capacity for resilience. We have the ability to accept disruptive changes and bounce back. Each of us is responsible for finding a way to deal effectively with adversity. We are responsible for how we use God’s gift of resilience. Life is about change; nothing ever stays exactly the same… My hope for you is that as you look back on your life fifty years from now you will be able to say, “Some of God’s greatest gifts were unanswered prayers.”

CLASS OF 2006You are now near the end of your adolescence. It is time to leave the harbor. You face a choice more important than the choice of a college, more important than the choice of a career, and almost as important as the choice of your spouse. One of the most important choices you are called to make is when you decide to leave adolescence. Unfortunately many people before you have chosen to prolong their adolescence well into their twenties, thirties, and forties. You can continue to be approval-focused. You can continue to live for today and give no thought to your long-term responsibilities. Without the compass and map, you may drift about on a sea of self-indulgence or become stuck on a lonely island of self-pity.

CLASS OF 2007Let me repeat what I have said to you so often: the truth is your best friend. The truth can be a difficult friend. It makes us uncomfortable, it shatters our self-deceptions, and it punctures our illusions of importance. The truth helps us to recognize two other difficult but very reliable friends — gratitude and patience… Without a deep devotion to the truth, we fail to recognize the disguises that a sense of entitlement wears. Entitlement can cleverly appear as a request for compassion or a call for justice when in reality it is only asking for special treatment for me and my friends. This kind of self-deception is so rampant among us that we need to be very vigilant. The more we value the truth, the more we will honestly evaluate our lives. Where entitlement lives without truth, perpetrators are transformed into victims, and innocent victims are blamed as evildoers. May God’s spirit live within you, showing you the truth and empowering you to live the truth. May the Spirit give you a grateful heart and a patient attitude. As our alma mater has been the star of our youthful years,

may she continue to be our true friend and guide through all the days of life.

CLASS OF 2008At the end of your years at Jesuit, your perspective is different. You are, to some degree, wiser and more confident than you were at age 14. I ask you to look back. What advice would you give yourself? What was that young man like who started Jesuit a few years ago? What were his anxieties and his hopes? What advice would you give him now? If you could write a letter to him, what would you say? My letter to myself at 14 would advise patience, persistence, and trust in Providence. If I had developed these tools early in my life, my years at Jesuit would have been far easier. Many obstacles seem insurmountable because we lack patience and persistence to deal with them effectively. In 1961, the Jesuits did not concern themselves with promoting the self-esteem of their students. In that respect nothing much has changed. Our objective is to empower you to make wise, difficult, self-giving choices that fulfill your responsibilities to your family, to society, and to God. Self-esteem is a by-product; it results from successfully meeting our challenges; it results from the resilience we show when we fail. Your self-esteem is a means to an end. It is not our purpose… My final words of advice to you are words that I myself need to remember frequently. Be patient, be persistent, and trust in Providence.

CLASS OF 2009On the day we opened school 40 months ago, I warned you that the place we are proud to call home is also a place dominated by a pervasive spirit of self-indulgence, lethargy, self-pity, and provincialism, all of which limit our potential as individuals and as a community. I encouraged you to become a force challenging the prevailing culture of comfort. I now thank you and your families for all you did to help Jesuit serve as a countercultural force promoting adaptability, energetic optimism, and self-discipline.

CLASS OF 2010I offer you three suggestions to guide you as you live out your purpose and your plan. First, seek the company of those who know where they are going. In certain environments, aimlessness can be contagious… Second, I encourage you to take a few minutes, preferably at the same time every week, to think honestly about your purpose and your plan… Third, everyday feel gratitude and try to express it. Considering everything you are and everything you have as gifts will make your struggles more bearable and your life more productive. I strongly encourage you to express your gratitude to your parents by developing a clear sense of purpose and living out your plan. No sane parent wants to house and support an under-employed, under-committed, and over-indulged thirty-year-old son. n

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