For purchase click here or go to Amazon.com Joe Murphy's 300 page book: “Echoes in the Gangway”, showcases growing up in a large Irish Catholic family, in the parish of St. Leo the Great, attending Leo High School, enjoying living in a vital, thriving community....and being part of the pride in the … [Read more...]
Leo Alumni Meetings 2011 / 2012
Leo Alumni Meetings 2011 December 14 Leo Alumni Meetings 2012 January 18 February 15 March 21 April 11 April 18 April 25 Father Perez Knights of Columbus 3422 W. 111th Street Chicago, IL MEETINGS AT 7:30 PM … [Read more...]
Leo Runners Overcome Adversity at Home, Excel in Track 2011
By Mike Helfgot Special to the Tribune April 16, 2011 In a city full of broken homes, Denzel Howard's burned to the ground. Sitting in honors chemistry class at Leo 14 months ago last week, Howard received a text message from a cousin urging him to get home immediately. The … [Read more...]
Curtis Cooper ’75
Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 1/11 CURTIS COOPER '75 Every era has its wonders and aura of innate possibilities. Coming of age on the South side of Chicago in the late nineteen-sixties and early seventies is tinged with the contradictory and the eventful. It was a time of discord and … [Read more...]
Jack Schaller ~ Schaller’s Pump
Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/10 JACK SCHALLER ~ SCHALLER'S PUMP A LEO STORY OF MEN GIVING BACK It could be a scene from a play, or a movie. It's a beautiful late summer afternoon. A weekday. A group of older, clearly distinguished gentlemen, friendly and at ease with each other … [Read more...]
Edwon Simmons ’93
Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 8/10 EDWON SIMMONS '93 What’s in a name, Shakespeare famously asked in Romeo and Juliet. Juliet observes, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Names are sometimes a curse, but they sometimes get right at the heart of the … [Read more...]
Donald Whiteside ’87
Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 4/10 DONALD WHITESIDE '87 The greatness of a man is measured from the neck up, Napoleon said. Donald Whiteside never commanded armies or fought in wars. He has from his early beginnings smart, shrewd and instinctive. He also was a guy that was never … [Read more...]
James J. Arneberg ’43
Interviewed and Written by Patrick Mc Gavin 3/10 JAMES J ARNEBERG '45 Scene: The Southwest Side of Chicago. Time: The mid-1930s, the height of the Great Depression. It was a volatile time when people moved and acted with a naked desperation, regardless of their age, to get by, to feel worthy … [Read more...]