Loyola Academy

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Loyola Academy
Motto	Women and Men for Others
Established	1909
Type	Private secondary
Affiliations	Jesuit Secondary Education Association ⋅
President	Rev. Theodore G. Munz, S.J.
Dean	Dr. Mary M. Kearney Mr. Kenneth S. Maziarka Mrs. Sharon Belmont
Founder	Rev. Henry J. Dumbach, S.J.
Students	~2,000
Grades	9 - 12
Location	1100 Laramie Avenue Wilmette, Illinois USA
Colors	Maroon and Gold
Mascot	Rambler
Newspaper	The Prep
Conference	Chicago Catholic League Girls Catholic Athletic (GCAC)
Website	http://www.goramblers.org/

Loyola Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school located in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It is one of 47 Jesuit high schools in the United States and is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association. It is also the largest Jesuit high school in America, with over 2,000 students from more than 80 different zip codes throughout Chicagoland.

Contents 1 History 2 Academics at Loyola Academy 3 Sports at Loyola Academy 4 Service at Loyola Academy 5 Current administration 6 Notable alumni 7 External links

[edit] History

Loyola Academy was founded as an all-boys school in 1909. The school was originally located in Rogers Park, Chicago at Loyola University's Dumbach Hall; it moved to the current Wilmette campus in 1957. In 1994, Loyola Academy merged with Saint Louise de Marillac High School, an all-girls high school from Northfield, Illinois, and became a co-educational school.

In 2003, Loyola Academy opened a new 60-acre campus in Glenview, Illinois. The property, a former construction landfill site running along the North Branch of the Chicago River, was purchased in 2001 and now houses several athletic fields for lacrosse, baseball, softball, and soccer, a cross country path, and a wetland preserve area that has been used as a natural laboratory for science classes.

[edit] Academics at Loyola Academy

Loyola Academy offers a comprehensive liberal arts curriculum with over 110 courses in language arts, fine arts (dance, music, theater, visual arts, and architecture), foreign languages (Spanish, French, German, Latin, and Ancient Greek), mathematics, physical education, science, social studies, and theology. (As it is a college-preparatory high school, it does not offer any true vocational courses.) The school has two competitive honors programs (the Dumbach Scholars and the Clavius Scholars), and a plethora of students enrolled in AP classes. Loyola also offers the O'Shaughnessy Program, which assists students who show the potential for success in college but may require smaller classes and extra help from teachers. Annually, about 99% of students are accepted by four-year universities.

Loyola has a particularly strong tradition of educating students in the classics. The school fields a Certamen team, and in 2005, six students received perfect scores on the National Latin Exam while 44 others were named Gold Medalists. In addition, Loyola Academy is one of only two high schools in the Chicago area to offer Ancient Greek as a language course. Loyola is also very active in forensics, Scholastic Bowl, and Science Olympiad competitions.

• For more detailed information about academics at Loyola, see the Loyola Viewbook 2005.

[edit] Sports at Loyola Academy

Loyola Academy has a highly competitive athletics program, offering 16 women's sports and 17 men's sports. The Ramblers (borrowing their nickname from the teams at Loyola University) have been particularly successful in lacrosse, crew and ice hockey; within the last ten years, both men's and women's teams in each of those sports have won state (or in the case of crew, national) championships. The men's hockey team has reached the State Finals four times from 2001-2006, and the State Final Four every year since 2000, with the exception of 2005. The men's lacrosse team has the most state championships in Illinois, including three straight from 2002 to 2004. The men's golf and women's basketball teams are also traditional Chicago-area powerhouses. The men's and women's swimming teams are on the rise as well, placing in the top 15 in the state in each of the past 3 years. Loyola's greatest athletic rival is widely considered to be New Trier Township High School, as well as St. Ignatius, its Jesuit rival within the Chicago Catholic League.

Many Chicago-area sports figures have sent their children to Loyola Academy. These include former Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, former Chicago Bears Dave Duerson and Matt Suhey, former Chicago Blackhawk Jack O'Callahan and former Bulls player Bill Wennington. Recently, Loyola Academy hired John Holecek, former NFL linebacker, to be the head coach of the football program. The team competes in the Chicago Catholic League one of the top high school football conferences in the country.

• For more information, see Loyola Academy Sports and The Loyola Academy Athletic Hall of Fame

[edit] Service at Loyola Academy

Loyola places a particularly strong emphasis on community service, encouraging their students to be "Women and Men for Others, Leaders in Service." During the summer, many students join service sites across the United States and around the world, and during the school year, Loyola's "Life! Be In It!" program allows students to in participate in Amnesty International, Habitat for Humanity, and various other community outreach programs. One of Loyola's stated objectives is that every graduate be "committed to doing justice," and thus it encourages students to contribute to their communities and learn more about the world around them. These service programs are complemented by a series of religious retreats.

• For more information on service and spirituality at Loyola Academy, see Loyola Academy: Our Jesuit Identity

[edit] Current administration

• President: Rev. Theodore G. Munz, S.J.
• Vice President of Student and Academic Affairs: Mr. David K. McNulty '67
• Dean of Academics: Dr. Mary M. Kearney
• Dean of Student Life: Mr. Charles Heintz
• Director of Ignatian Identity: Rev. Richard H. McGurn, S.J.
• Dean of Students: Mr. Kenneth S. Maziarka
• Director of Admissions: Mr. Lesley J. Seitzinger '88
• Director of Athletics: Mr. Patrick M. Mahoney '90

[edit] Notable alumni

A number of notable people have attended Loyola over the years. These include:

• Jamie Baisley, professional football player
• Robert Bireley, Jesuit historian
• George Bon Salle, professional basketball player
• Ed Boon, co-creator of Mortal Kombat video game series
• John Dee, basketball coach at the University of Alabama and the University of Notre Dame
• Richard A. Devine, Cook County State's Attorney
• R. Jerome Dunne, Olympic decathlete
• Colin Falls, Current Notre Dame basketball player
• Dave Finzer, professional football player
• John Fitzgerald, Olympic pentathlete
• Paul Florence, professional baseball player
• Pat Foley, sportscaster
• Tim Foley, Pro-Bowl NFL football player, 1972 Miami Dolphins team
• Neil Hartigan, Illinois politician
• Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts
• Neal Katyal, lead counsel in Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
• Jay Lavender, writer and producer of The Break-Up
• Charlie Leibrandt, professional baseball player
• Brendan Leonard, filmmaker ¹
• Mike Leonard, author and correspondent for The Today Show
• Freddie Lindstrom, professional baseball player ²
• Erik Maurer, Current IHSA swimming record holder, 1992 NCAA swimming champion (Stanford)
• Bert Metzger, member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Jim Mooney, professional football player
• Al Montoya, professional ice hockey player ³
• Bill Murray, actor and comedian
• John Musker, animated film director (The Little Mermaid, etc.)
• Hugh Neff, sled dog racer; Iditarod participant
• Jonathan Nolan, writer
• George M. O'Brien, United States Representative
• Timothy L. O'Brien, New York Times journalist
• Chris O'Donnell, actor
• Westbrook Pegler, newspaper columnist ⁴
• William Petersen, actor ⁵
• Bill Plante, journalist with CBS News
• Gregory Qaiyum (GQ), actor and writer of The Bomb-itty of Errors
• Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum (JAQ), beatboxer and contributor to The Bomb-itty of Errors
• Steve Quinn, professional football player
• Nick Rassas, professional football player
• Todd Rassas, professional lacrosse player
• Robert Ryan, actor
• Saurabh Saha, oncologist
• Eddie Shin, actor
• Bob Skoglund, professional football player
• Peter Steinfels, author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America
• John Tobias, co-creator of Mortal Kombat

• ¹ Did not graduate from Loyola; transferred to North Shore Country Day School after sophomore year.
• ² Did not graduate from Loyola; left after sophomore year to play in the minor leagues.
• ³ Did not graduate from Loyola; transferred to Fossil Ridge High School in Texas after sophomore year.
• ⁴ Did not graduate from Loyola; dropped out after two years to take a job as a reporter.
• ⁵ Did not graduate from Loyola; moved to Idaho when he was 15 and transferred to Bishop Kelly High School.

[edit] External links

• Loyola Academy
• Society of Jesus
• Chicago Province of the Society of Jesus
• Jesuit Secondary Education Association

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