Looking Back

La Salle HS (Cumberland, MD) won the City high school basketball championship (of Cumberland) for the first time since 1945 with a 20-2 record.

Brother Galdrick John (Owens), longtime principal of West Philadelphia Catholic HS, received an Honorary Degree from La Salle College.

The new Science Center (which would later be named in honor of Dr. Roland Holroyd) at La Salle College (Philadelphia) has been completed, and it now awaits the necessary equipment for its opening for the Fall 1960 Semester.

The Long Island-New England District has accepted the boys’ department of the soon-to-be-built co-instructional Mater Cristi High School in the Diocese of Brooklyn.

After a 113-year legacy, De La Salle Institute in New York City will close in June 1960.

 

“Interesting volumes could be written about the priceless contribution made by this school in the field of education, about the personalities associated with its faculty and among its alumni, and about the significant role it played in the life of the New York District. But the `Abandon Ship!’ order—the inevitable outcome of the unfeasibility of meeting the requirements of the City Building Commission, of obtaining other temporary quarters or of undertaking the burder of a new building—writes `Finis’ to a glorious and proud tradition.”

In a considerable basketball upset, La Salle Institute (Troy, NY) ended Troy Diocesan School’s 22-game home winning streak.

The football team of St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute (Buffalo) has posted four years of wins without a single loss. In addition, the Brothers’ Community at St. Joe’s is hopeful of launching a campaign to build a new Brothers’ residence.

The Toronto District Council granted permission to open negotiations for the erection of a Brothers’ residence on Havelock Street. In December, the residence (89 Spencer Avenue) was sold on the condition that the firm purchasing this site receive approval to erect an apartment building there.