Loyola High School (Montreal)
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Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
For the Greater Glory of God
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| Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |
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| Affiliations | Catholic, Jesuit |
| President | Fr. Robert Brennan, S.J. |
| Principal | Paul Donovan Sr. |
| Students | approx. 720 |
| Type | Private, Boys |
| Athletics | Peewee (Scouts), Bantam (Braves), Midget and Juvenile (Warriors) |
| Color(s) | Maroon and White |
| Established | 1896 |
| Homepage | www.loyola.ca |
Loyola High School is a Jesuit, Catholic high school for boys in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is named after St. Ignatius of Loyola who founded the Jesuit Order in 1534. A prayer is said every morning ending with "St Ignatius of Loyola, pray for us".
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[edit] History
Founded in 1896, Loyola High School started life as Loyola College (Montreal) (an 8 year Classical College) which assumed responsibility for the English section of Collège Sainte-Marie, a French Jesuit school, which began in 1848. In 1964, the Loyola High School Corporation was established to run the school separately from the college. When Loyola College merged with Sir George Williams University in 1974 to form Concordia University, title to the land that the school occupied on the north-east corner of the campus was transferred from the college.
[edit] School Buildings
Loyola was originally located in an abandoned Sacred Heart Convent on Bleury and St. Catherine Street. A fire broke out at this location in 1898 provoking the college to move into the former Tucker School on Drummond Street. That very summer, a wing was added; but space soon became inadequate.
In 1900 the Jesuits purchased the Decary Farm in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, where the school remains to this day. However, it was not until 1916 that Loyola College officially moved from the Tucker School location into the newly completed Junior Building and part of the Administration Building. In 1947, the High School left the Administration Building for the north half of the new Central Building, which lasted until Loyola College's expansion in the 1960's. Consequently, this forced the closing of the High School dormitories making into a day school.
When the dormitories converted to classrooms, Loyola High School retreated into the Junior Building. An extension was added in 1968 and a gym was built south of Sherbrooke Street in 1978. In 1988 a decision was reached to erect a new building in order to properly accommodate the student body and to enable the school to offer the curriculum as outlined by the Ministry of Education. The school was completed in 1992.
[edit] Student Life
- The school's robotics team, FRC Team 296, won the 2006 FIRST Robotics Competition.
- The summer of 2008 is the first time that Loyola will have a summer reading novel. The novel in Rash (novel) by Pete Hautman[1]
[edit] Athletics
- The school has a history of success in the GMAA sports league across most sports.
[edit] Ed Meagher Winter Sports Tournament
The most notable sports tournament that takes place at Loyola is the Ed Meagher Winter Sports Tournament. Originally named the "Invitational Winter Sports Tournament", the tournament was renamed after its co-founder Ed Meagher in 1996 (the year of his passing), who was a former student, teacher, and sports coach at Loyola High School. It happens annually every winter since 1971. Senior hockey (now Juvenile) was the original sport in 1971. In 1974, Senior basketball (now Juvenile) was added to the tournament, followed by Bantam hockey in 1981. Midget basketball was added in 1982. Wrestling was added in 1995. Bantam basketball was added in 1998, Pee-Wee hockey in 2003 followed by Pee-Wee basketball in 2006. In 2000, the Concordia University Arena (the arena used for all Loyola hockey home games and tournaments) was rightfully name the Ed Meagher Arena.[1]
[edit] Discipline
[edit] Jug
Jug[2], let it be clearly understood from the start, is and always has been the heartless core of the penal system at Loyola. The student's Calendar used to state under Wednesdays and Saturdays: "Half-holidays"; but that was a printer's error. They were Jug-days. The insubordinate and the impudent, the laggards and the dullards, the brash and the brazen, the buffoons, of course, and sometimes the blackguards, all followed their wayward paths to end up in Jug. In short, you met your best friends there, on Wednesdays and especially Saturdays. You did nothing in Jug. You did time. Occasionally the rule was broken: "Copy our pages 656 to 681 of Morceaux Choisis." "Shall we omit the footnotes and the small print, Father?" "No, no. Copy out everything, everything that is there, footnotes and all, just at it is." "Yes Father. Thank you very, very much, Father."
Usually time in Jug was endured and minutely consumed by the brooding process of meditation - meditations on certain stone-hearted people, for example, who had so hopelessly misunderstood the true Ignatian spirit; meditations on the weather, on a broken finger-nail, on an ink spot on the ceiling, but mostly sullen meditations on a Prefect of Discipline who explained his Jug list with the repartee for a sergeant-major: "But what am I in for?" "You're in for two hours, m'boy."
The unwritten Code of Honour at Loyola is that nothing good may ever be written about Jug, prefects or other penal appliances. Jug is rotten. So be it too for jottings in Jug.
[edit] Notable Alumni
Alumni include:
- Governor General Georges Vanier (1906) and his son Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche
- Charles Gavan "Chubby" Power (1906) - Senator; Former Minister of National Defence for Air
- John Kearney (1916) - Justice, The Exchequer Court of Canada; Former Canadian Minister to Ireland and to India
- Influential preforming artist Richard Monette cites his experiences at Loyola as religiously, spiritually and theatrically extremely rewarding, a sentiment that appears to be shared among most Loyola Alumni.
- Sam Roberts (1992) (along with two of his bandmates, one of his record producers, and one of his video producers) also attended Loyola High School and have recently returned to perform for the 2005 Festival of the Arts.
- Don Ferguson and Roger Abbott of Royal Canadian Air Farce were both students as well, and met at the school.
- Jim Flaherty (1966) - Canadian Federal Minister of Finance from 2006 to present.
[edit] Coat of Arms
The name Loyola is derived from the Spanish Lobo-y-olla, meaning wolf and kettle. The school crest is a variation of St. Ignatius of Loyola's coat of arms which depicts the union of the House of Loyola (represented by the two wolves and kettle) and the House of Onaz (represented by the seven red bars on a field of gold) in 1261. The phrase Loyola y Onaz typically appears at the bottom; though another variation of the school crest includes the Jesuit motto Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam meaning for the greater glory of God.
[edit] References
- ^ http://students.loyola.ca/library/warriors_read.php
- ^ The following is a passage from T.P. Slattery, "Loyola and Montreal", (Montreal: Palm Publishers, 1962)
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