As borrowed from chicagotribune.com Former graduates reach across economic divide to lend assist to today’s students By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Tribune reporter February 14, 2014 There is a lot of hand-wringing these days, in the media and elsewhere, about the state of America’s schools. Violence, tumbling graduation rates and funding crises dominate the headlines, flooding […]
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Alumni Basketball Night 1/31/14 Leo V Gordon Tech
The Alumni turnout was great and the game was fun! Four years ago we started having “Alumni Night” basketball games at which we are spectators not participants. What started out as 75 alumni in our our spacious gym has grown and has been a very positive item in our very strong Alumni Association. Because Brother […]
Continue reading...Leo High School Makes the Cover of the Journal of IL History
Although Leo Alumni of all ages have long considered the storied school to be a wellspring of History of a variety of types, it is always nice when an authority recognizes some particular event the school has been involved in in its historic context. In this case the Authority is the Journal of Illinois History […]
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Lions Track Team Assists St. James for Christmas as borrowed from catholicnewworld.com By Marcus Pass 12/30/13 The Leo High School track team visited St. James Parish Dec. 21 for the fourth consecutive year on Christmas morning to help pass out food and gifts to the homeless. Several members of the National Honor Society, including the […]
Continue reading...LEO HIGH SCHOOL CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 1930
This year the Leo Alumni Association Vice President, John Gardner (Class of 1975) delivered a box of documents he received from Joan Howard (a Member of the Leo High Hall of Fame) to the website administrators. The box included papers which her late husband, the former Alumni President, John (Jack) Howard, had accumulated in regard […]
Continue reading...New teacher thinks outside boxing by Lisa Black borrowed from The Chicago Tribune 12/29/13
By Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune reporterDecember 29, 2013 New teacher thinks outside boxing She also helps coach sport at all-male school Leo Catholic High School officials admit they were skeptical when Kimberly Hickey showed up last summer to apply for a job teaching math. At 24, the Winnetka native arrived fresh out of graduate school, with […]
Continue reading...Memories of an Andy Frain find place in new book as borrowed from thebeverlyreview.net
Posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:56 am | Updated: 11:52 am, Tue Nov 12, 2013. by Caroline Connors In 1975, John Linehan was 16 and living on the South Side when he landed a job as an Andy Frain usher. His experiences over the next couple of years shaped his life, he said, and became the basis for […]
Continue reading...Final Days Leo Alumni Store
The final days to order from the Leo High School Alumni Association Store to receive in time for Christmas deliveries is quickly approaching. Place your orders prior to December 20!
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