Finally! It’s About Time!
A New Outdoor Athletic Complex and Field Will
Give Blue Jays the “Home Field Advantage”


An architect rendering shows what will be the main entrance into Jesuits new athletic complex and
practice field, which will be situated on approximately seven acres near Airline Drive, just over the Orleans-Jefferson Parishes boundary, and a mere five-minute ride from Carrollton and Banks.
The project, which goes by the name of Home Field Advantage,
has a target completion date in late spring 2011.

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Home Field Advantage



In the News... Blue Jay Alumni and Events

 


At Special Receptions for Blue Jay Benefactors, Jesuit Shows Its Appreciation, Thanking Them for Their Munificence


Ignatian Circle
Reception (Sunday, August 22)


At the Ignatian Circle reception on Sunday, August 22 at the Stage Door Canteen, which is part of the World War II Museum, historian and author Ron Drez ’58 gave a brief talk about Blue Jays
who served in World War II. The war claimed the lives of more than 50 Blue Jays.
Mr. Drez is writing a book about the history of Jesuit.
(Link to Photo Gallery is below.)


1847 Society (Sunday, August 15)


Jesuit High School held a reception at the Balcony on Sunday evening (August 15)
 to thank benefactors of the
1847 Society for their generosity.

Ignatian Circle Reception Photo Gallery

1847 Society Reception Photo Gallery



At Inaugural Leadership Conference, Current Blue Jays and Alumni Enjoy a Free-Wheeling Dialogue
 

Alumni Share Their Experiences with the Student Council’s Executive Board Members, Who Are Prepared to Lead the School Community


The Resource Center was the setting for a leadership conference
that brought together current Blue Jays and alumni.


Blue Jays who will be serving on the student council executive board in 2010 – 2011 got together with Jesuit alumni on Thursday for what was the inaugural conference on student leadership, a seminar that will be held annually prior to the beginning of the new school year.

The four-hour conference was sponsored by Jesuit’s office of institutional advancement (OIA), formerly the development and alumni office. Participants enjoyed a wide-ranging discussion about the roles and responsibilities that student leaders play, and the obstacles they face, in fostering school spirit and participation in co-curricular activities.

 

Attending the leadership conference in Jesuit’s Resource Center were, clockwise from left, current seniors Stephen Capella, Clay Tufts, and Peter Casey; Mason Eustis ’08 (a former senior class president and the 2008 recipient of the Harry McEnerny, Jr. Memorial Plaque); Eric Leefe ’03 (who begins his first year of teaching mathematics at Jesuit while also serving as co-moderator of the student council); Mike Prados ’83 (a longtime Jesuit English teacher and director of student activities); Tom Bagwill (director of the OIA); Brett Forshag ’84 (former chairman of the LEF drive); Mat Grau ’68 (Jesuit’s alumni director); Matt Orillion ’98 (who teaches theology teacher at Jesuit and, with Leefe, serves as co-moderator of the student council); Kevin Heigle ’69 (a member of the President’s Advisory Council and Jesuit’s Alumni Steering Committee; he is also Jesuit’s 2009 Alumnus of the Year; and, current Blue Jays Chip Arnold ’11, Peyton Vitter ’11, Mike Firmin ’11, Matthieu Robért ’12, and Alex Burch ’11.

 

The idea for the leadership conference originated at a recent quarterly meeting of the Alumni Steering Committee (ASC), a group of alumni who serve as advisors to Jesuit president Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J. ’66, the OIA, and the alumni office. The ASC customarily invites members of the student council’s executive board to the April meeting to participate in a free-wheeling no holds barred discussion encompassing a variety of topics — student life, spirituality, spirit, co-curriculars, just to name a few. Current Blue Jays have relied on Jesuit’s alumni to impart their individual and collective wisdom, and share insights, visions, and solutions to issues and problems.

 

In recent years, the ASC’s April meeting has become a popular event and much anticipated by both students and alumni. Following the ASC gathering last April, one of the seniors casually suggested that it would have been helpful to him, as well as the other members of the student council’s executive board, to have held the meeting at the beginning of the school year rather than the end. The student’s suggestion resulted in Thursday’s leadership conference which began at 8 a.m. and concluded after lunch.

“This inaugural conference was a great success because there was plenty of give and take between students and alumni,” said alumni director Mat Grau. “The conference also served to motivate and instill in students the confidence, knowledge, and enthusiasm essential for them to be inspiring leaders amongst Blue Jays during the upcoming school year, and hopefully, beyond their graduation.”

 

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Alumni who have NOT received their copy should let us know.
We will be happy to mail you the latest issue.
Call the alumni office at 504-483-3815
or email:
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Jesuit Football Online Special: 8-Game Season Ticket Package!


Break out of the long ticket lines and run with the Blue Jays by making an online purchase of  
a 2010 football season ticket package. Join the fans in the stands and show your
Blue Jay Spirit throughout the upcoming football season.
Get all the details by clicking the link in the box.

Online Special: 2010 Jesuit Football Season Tickets

 

Jesuit Alumnus Honored by Pro Football Hall of Fame
 
Times-Picayune sports columnist Peter Finney ’45 received the Dick McCann Memorial Award, created in 1969 and given annually by the Pro Football Hall of Fame to an outstanding sports journalist for their distinguished reporting on professional football.


Peter Finney ’45 at 2010 Alumnus of the Year Dinner

Finney began his writing career at the young age of 17, fresh out of Jesuit High School in 1945. His love for writing continues today—he still writes three to four columns a week for The Times Picayune. He is celebrating his 65th anniversary in the New Orleans newspaper business.

“It’s never been a job to me. I go from sport to sport, season to season, doing what I love doing. Every day is a new day.”

Finney’s love of life and family is so incredibly evident. He met his wife and sweetheart, Deedy, of 59 years, at the old States newspaper; she was a former secretary at the business. Peter and Deedy have six children, 20 grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Finney has linked the memorable births of each of his children to something that happened locally in the sporting world.

Finney received his award on Friday, August 6, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinees Dinner in Canton, Ohio.
                                                                                                    -Copy Courtesy of Loyola University

 

Jesuit's Planned Giving Web Site Designed to Guide
Benefactors in Their Philanthropic Endeavors


Bob Weilbaecher, Tom and Judy McCaffery, Pat White, and Barry and Denise Faust
were among the 250 guests at the 2009 reception for benefactors who constitute
Jesuit High School’s 1847 Society.
It doesn't matter if you are a Blue Jay from
1944 or 1994 — Jesuit
’s Planned Giving web site is chocked full of useful,
creative, and informative ways to achieve your philanthropic goals.

Jesuit’s Planned Giving Home Page 


Annus Mirabilis... (A Remarkable Year)

Jesuit 1933 Yearbook...
A Mysterious Face Becomes Part of the Freshmen B Class


Bottom row, from left: Jules Lorio, Andrew Bacon, H.G. Zehner, Jr., Clarence East, Jr.,
James Delhom, Patrick Johnson, Vincent Donahue, Adam Mulheisen, Jr.,
A.J. Hurst, and Harry Charbonnet;

Middle row, from left: B.B. Bordelon, Jr., Milton May, Gerard Shuppert, A. Luria, Ray Fleming, Arthur Smith, A.F. Culotta, John Ford III, Francis Hecker, Wallace Schneidau,
Edward Patterson, and C.F. Deichmann;

 

Top row, from left: M.J. Ohlmeyer, William Lyons, John Trauth, Malcolm Plaeger,
Charles Rantz, Jr., Jesse Gibson, Jr., Connie Miller, C.J. Acomb, G.D. Martin,
Thomas Harrison, and F.C. Power

 



Back in 1933, class photos of the Jesuit students were taken in a corner of the yard. The Freshmen in the B class are not smiling, perhaps heeding the directive of the photographer. But many of the photos in the Jesuit Yearbooks all those years ago feature boys who did very little smiling. It was the style. 

 

The only person who may be smiling is not really in the picture. If you look closely at the left window, a face is staring out at the scene. Did the face belong to another Blue Jay from a different class, or maybe a boy from the Freshman B class who ran afoul of the Jesuits, or perhaps the little sister of one of the boys in the photo? The face will probably always be an unsolved mystery.

 

These Blue Jays, most of whom are now deceased, went on to graduate in 1936 and 1937. Five or six of the students pictured apparently did not graduarte from Jesuit High School. 

 

Below is the article in the 1933 Yearbook that accompanied the Freshmen B class photo.

 

When school opened last September, thirty shy Freshmen assembled in the classroom of First High B. Since that day, many months have elapsed, many events have taken place; but now, we leave that dear old classroom with only happy memories.

 

About the third week in September the members of our class elected their officers. The following members proved themselves worthy of the class’ choice: Patrick Johnson, president; James Delhom, vice-president; Clarence East, secretary; Hullin Bowman, treasurer.

 

Much of the class’ success can be attributed to our professors: Rev. William A. Fillinger, S.J., and Messrs. G. Gernon Brown, William Von Lubbe, and Francis Achee.

 

As a class we fared well in the undertakings of the school. We had a large representation in the band and John Trauth was one of the violinists in the Blue Jay Orchestra.

 

Excellence in class work was the aim of every member of First High B. We made splendid averages in our studies throughout the year. Hullin Bowman and John Ford generally led the class in excellence and succeeded in carrying off the highest honors in scholastic work. These two luminaries were followed closely by Clarence East.

 

Now that the first year of our high school career has passed away, how different are our sentiments towards our school. We indeed consider Jesuit High School our second home and every one of us would be most reluctant to leave it.

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