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La Salle College High School company history timeline

1858

The Christian Brothers opened a school there and taught their first classes on July 20, 1858.

1863

1863: La Salle College receives its charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and opens at St Michael’s Parish (2nd and Jefferson Streets).

1869

1869: La Salle grants its first bachelor’s degrees.

1882

In 1882, the Brothers acquired the mansion of Michael Bouvier -- a prominent Philadelphia banker -- located on Broad Street near Girard Avenue.

1886

1886: La Salle College moves to the former Bouvier mansion at 1240 North Broad Street.

1900

In 1900 John Baptist de La Salle was declared a Saint.

1913

1913: La Salle celebrates its Golden Jubilee (50th anniversary).

1926

1926: La Salle purchases ten acres at 20th and Olney Avenue for a new campus.

1930

1930: La Salle launches its first varsity basketball season.

1931

1931: The Collegian student newspaper publishes its first issue

1931: La Salle begins its first varsity football season.

1932

1932: La Salle officially selects and announces “Explorers” as the nickname for its sports teams.

1934

1934: The Masque presents its first dramatic production for the general public, “Sun Up.”

1935

1935: La Salle first fraternity, Sigma Phi Lambda, is organized.

1935: La Salle celebrates its first Baccalaureate Mass.

1936

1936: La Salle opens McCarthy Stadium.

1938

1938: La Salle celebrates its Diamond Jubilee (75th anniversary), including the successful financial campaign to purchase ten additional acres for the campus.

1940

1940: The first Explorer yearbook is published.

1940: McShain Hall opens.

1942

1942: President Brother Edwin Anselm, who guided La Salle during the challenges of the Great Depression, receives the first-ever Signum Fidei Medal from the Alumni Association.

1946

1946: La Salle’s Evening Division begins its first sessions.

1947

1947: Leonard Hall opens.

1948

1948: Benilde Hall opens.

1948: La Salle’s first Olympian, swimmer Joe Verdeur, wins a Gold Medal in the breaststroke competition at the 1948 London Olympics.

1950

1950: The track and field team wins Middle Atlantic Conference honors.

1950: La Salle’s Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) unit is established.

1950: La Salle’s first graduate program (Master’s Degree in Religion) begins.

1951

1951: La Salle launches Four Quarters, a professional literary magazine.

1952

1952: La Salle defeats Dayton University, 75-64, to win the National Invitational Tournament (basketball) at Madison Square Garden.

1952: The new library building (later named the David Leo Lawrence Library) opens.

1953

1953: The first residence halls (St Albert and St Bernard) open.

1954

1954: La Salle defeats Bradley University, 92-76, to win the NCAA basketball championship.

1955

In November 1955, construction began on the School’s main building.

1955: The School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Business Administration a formally established.

1957

1957 Mark of Distinction La Salle’s first freshman class (now sophomores) achieved the distinction of winning the freshman division of the statewide Christian Brothers Academic Association.

1960

1960: The Science Center, later named for Doctor Roland Holroyd, opens.

From 1960 until the early nineties, La Salle College Preparatory continued to graduate young men instilled with the values and principles of the Christian Brothers tradition.

1961

1961: La Salle establishes the Hall of Athletes with charter members Joe Verdeur, Tom Gola, Frank Loughney, Ira Davis, and Al Cantello.

1961: Doctor Roland Holroyd and Doctor Joseph Flubacher receive the first Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.

1963

In 1963, formal honors sections were established in nearly all liberal arts programs.

1963: La Salle celebrates its Centenary (100th anniversary).

1963 More Sports Teams La Salle becomes one of the first Catholic high schools in the CIF to embrace a comprehensive water polo program.

1965

1965: The former Auditorium in College Hall is converted into the Students’ Chapel (later named the De La Salle Chapel).

1966

1966: La Salle’s Faculty Senate begins under President Charles A. J. Halpin.

1967

1967: La Salle’s first full-time women faculty members, Doctor Minna Weinstein and Doctor Diane Blumenthal, begin teaching.

1968

1968: Kathryn Fitzgerald becomes the first woman to receive a Bachelor’s Degree from La Salle.

1971

1971: Olney Hall opens.

1972

1972: Hayman Hall (later renovated as Hayman Center) opens.

1975

1975: The La Salle Art Museum officially opens on the lower level of Olney Hall.

1979

1979: La Salle purchases the Weston Court apartment complex and reopens it as St Teresa Court.

1979 A CIF Championship

1980

1980: The Department of Nursing is founded.

1982

In 1982, the geographic separation between the college and the high school became formal, as the two entities legally separated and the high school formed its own Board of Trustees with responsibility for the school’s direction.

1984

1984: La Salle acquires Peale House and the heart of the original Belfield estate.

1988

1988: Connelly Library opens.

1989

1989: St Miguel Court Townhouses open.

1989 Coeducation on the Horizon With one year under his belt, La Salle’s new principal, Brother Philip Clarke FSC, continued the study and discussion of the possibility of coeducation at La Salle.

1990

1990: St John Neumann Residence Hall opens.

1991

On September 14, 1991 La Salle kicked-off its football program with its first Junior Varsity “Home” Football game at La Canada High School.

1993

1993: John J. Shea ‘59 becomes the first layperson to be elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

1995

1995: The School for Continuing Studies becomes the Office of Continuing Studies.

1998

1998: Nicholas A. Giordano ’65 begins his year-long term as La Salle’s Interim President and becomes La Salle’s first lay president.

2001

2001 Mission Statement Clarification La Salle College Preparatory formed focus groups consisting of alumni, parents, students, faculty, staff, and volunteers in order to assess the School’s Mission Statement.

2002

The ten million dollar campaign, completed in 2002, focused on increasing the endowment of the school for financial aid, an expanded athletic and music facility called the West Wing, and substantial additional support for the La Salle Annual Fund.

2005

2005: St Basil Court and Treetops Café open.

2006

2006: The School of Nursing is renamed the School of Nursing and Health Sciences.

In 2006, the school launched Fulfilling The Promise, a $25 million capital campaign, which is the largest fundraising initiative in the school’s history.

2007

2007: The “Shoulder to Shoulder: Securing the Future” major gift initiative ended with $28.2 million raised.

2009

2009: Grand opening of the stores of The Shoppes at La Salle.

2015

The program began to take shape around 2015 with two instructors, Doctor Jude Lucas and Doctor Doug Rynerson spearheading the initiative.

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