Loyola High School (Montreal)

Infobox School2


motto=Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
motto_translation=For the Greater Glory of God
street address=7272 Sherbrooke Street West
city=Montreal
province=Quebec
country=Canada
established=1896
type=Private, Boys
affiliations=Catholic, Jesuit
head_name=President
head=Fr. Robert Brennan, S.J.
head_name2=Principal
head2=Paul Donovan Sr.
students=approx. 720
athletics=Peewee (Scouts), Bantam (Braves), Midget and Juvenile (Warriors)
colors=Maroon and White color box|#800000 color box|#FFFFFF

website= [http://www.loyola.ca/ www.loyola.ca]

Loyola High School is a private Catholic school for boys in grades 7-11 located in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). The School was established in 1896 by the Society of Jesus as Loyola College, at the request of the English Catholic community in Montreal. It is named after St. Ignatius of Loyola who founded the Jesuit Order in 1534.

In Loyola's Mission Statement, the School is described as providing a university-preparatory program consisting of a rigorous and comprehensive educational experience intertwined with spiritual and religious formation, and extra-curricular involvement to deserving students. [http://parents.loyola.ca/our_mission.php]

A unique feature of the School is their practice that no student attending Loyola should be deprived of the opportunity to get the full “Loyola experience” because of an inability to pay. [http://development.loyola.ca/bursaries.php] This has fostered a diverse student body which has contributed to the School's strong sense of community and public service.

History

Founded in 1896, Loyola High School started life as Loyola College (an 8 year classical college or "collège classique") which assumed responsibility for the English section of Collège Sainte-Marie, a French Jesuit school which existed from 1848 to 1969. 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. To this day, Loyola has remained true to the Jesuit commitment of educating "Men for Others" who are intellectually competent, open to growth, religious, loving, and committed to doing justice.

chool 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 located in the west end of Montreal, where the School remains to this day on what is commonly referred to as the Loyola Campus of Concordia University. [http://buildings.concordia.ca/loyola/] [Map of Loyola Campus provided by Concordia University]

In 1916 Loyola College officially moved from the Tucker School location to the new campus. The High School was located in the Junior Building, and until 1961, shared the Administration Building and then the north half of the Central Building. It was the Junior Building, which was designed in the Collegiate Gothic architectural style and covered in gargoyles, leaded and stained-glass windows and oak moulding, where young men began their journey to become "Eight Year Men." After four years of High School and four years of College, they graduated with university degrees in Arts or Sciences.

In 1961 the era of boarders ended and the High School was located exclusively in the Junior Building. An extension was added in 1968 and a gymnasium 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.

Loyola considered a number of possible options for the future building including adding an extension on the Junior Building, to relocating the School to Côte Saint-Luc on land that was owned by Loyola (currently the location of Côte Saint-Luc City Hall). The School eventually made arrangements with Concordia University to swap the Junior Building for a site on the south-west end of Loyola campus beside the School gymnasium. The new building was completed in 1992. The Bishops Atrium and a three-story wing was constructed in 2004, along with an auditorium the following year.

Academic

Loyola High School encourages each student to strive for academic excellence and to pursue his intellectual development to the full measure of his personal talents. Academic excellence involves much more than receiving satisfactory grades on a challenging curriculum. Loyola's commitment is to promote active, life-long learning and to challenge its students to "go beyond the mastery of the basic skills, to encourage creativity, to cultivate the faculty of imagination, and to guide students to function as inquiries and problem-solvers through analysis, synthesis and evaluation." Loyola leads students to explore the "harmony and inter-relations among diverse intellectual and academic discipline, and to develop an active concern for, and awareness of, social developments in their lives in Quebec, in Canada and in the world."

piritual and Religious Formation

Loyola, as a Jesuit school, interprets education in larger than academic terms -- namely that full growth of the human person which leads both to reflection and to action, suffused with the spirit and presence of Jesus Christ, the Man-for-Others. Because students of high school age are at a critical stage in their religious development, Loyola aims to help them: Explore their religious experiences in an environment where Catholic doctrine and values are understood, cherished and fostered; Form sound moral judgement and a firm will to act according to it; and; Develop a fraternal respect for people of differing creeds and cultures.

As a Jesuit School, Loyola must reflect the special charisms and emphases that flow from the long tradition of spirituality and thought as expressed in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, and other documents of the Society of Jesus, and, concomitantly, the spirituality of the lay vocation of the ministry of teaching.

Therefore, the school strives to develop a special sense of community and commitment beginning with a greater dedication to the service of the church and of all people, an exciting search for a deeper devotion to Jesus Christ, and a stronger awareness that God dwells in all Creation. The school, therefore, must be clearly Christian in all its aspects. This means that the school not only exercise the natural virtues, but also build into the fabric of the school a realistic Christian ethos, which for Jesuit institutions signifies the service of faith and the promotion of justice.

Since justice is a virtue central to Christian life, Loyola places special emphasis on making its members sensitive to justice both for individuals and in local, national and international situations. No person should graduate from Loyola without an awareness of the realities of global interdependence, the need for restraint in the use of natural resources, the obligation of the developed nations towards underdeveloped peoples, and the systematic forms of injustice and discrimination which currently affect Canadian and world-wide society. Loyola students and graduates are challenged to use their talents and energies to address these problems in a Christian way.

Community Service

CSP (Christian Service Program) [http://students.loyola.ca/services/csp/homepage/newhomepage.htm]

Loyola, in an attempt to be faithful to its Christian and Jesuit heritage, gives its students an experience of the value of service to their fellow man in the name of Jesus. In the course of their high school years, students participate in some form of supervised program known as "CSP" involving service to others. It is understood that enrollment in the school is a commitment to an exploration of the human and religious significance of Christian service. The objective of Jesuit education is to encourage students to be Open to Growth, Intellectually Competent, Religious, Loving, and Committed to Doing Justice.

Accordingly, CSP is a compulsary program for all students. CSP project opportunities are already approved by the school. Alternatively, the students may find their own project around their area, subject to approval by the school deacon. CSP is broken down into two categories: CSP (1) for students in grades 7 - 10 and CSP (2) for students in grade 11.

CSP (1):

Students must complete a curtain amount of community service hours a term (the school year is split into two terms, September to December and January to June) to pass the religion course and the academic year. (Example: Grade 7: 2 hours a term; Grade 8: 4 hours a term; Grade 9: 6 hours a term; Grade 10: 8 hours a term)

CSP (2):

The period of service is for 2 hours a week over the course of 12 weeks (total: 24 hours) during either their first or second term.

tudent Life

*The School's robotics team, , won the 2006 FIRST Robotics Competition.
*The summer of 2008 is the first time that Loyola will have a summer reading novel. The novel is Rash (novel) by Pete Hautman [ [http://students.loyola.ca/library/warriors_read.php Loyola High School - Student Life ] ]

Athletics

The School has a history of success in the GMAA sports league. The following teams represent Loyola in competition with other schools:

* Scouts Hockey
* Bantam Basketball
* Bantam Football
* Bantam Hockey
* Bantam Rugby
* Bantam Soccer
* Bantam Volleyball
* Midget Basketball

* Cadet Football
* Midget Rugby
* Midget Soccer
* Midget Volleyball
* Juvenile Basketball
* Juvenile Football
* Juvenile Hockey
* Juvenile Rugby

* Juvenile Soccer
* Juvenile Volleyball
* Cross Country Running
* Golf
* Tennis
* Track and Field
* Wrestling

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. [http://students.loyola.ca/tournament/history.html]

Discipline

Jug

Jug [The following is a passage from T.P. Slattery, "Loyola and Montreal", (Montreal: Palm Publishers, 1962)] , 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 out 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.

Notable Alumni

*Georges P. Vanier (1906) - Governor General of Canada. His son Jean Vanier, the founder of L'Arche, also attended Loyola.
*Charles Gavan "Chubby" Power (1906) - Senator; Minister of National Defence for Air
*John Kearney (1916) - Justice, The Exchequer Court of Canada; Minister to Ireland and to India
*William Joseph Mackey S.J. (1932) - Responsible for establishing the modern education system in Bhutan
*Warren Allmand (1948) - Solicitor-General, Minister of Indian Affairs, and Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs in the governments of Prime Minister Trudeau
*Peter Desbarats - Author, playwright and journalist. Dean of journalism at the University of Western Ontario (1981-1997), Commissioner in the Somalia Inquiry (1995-1997)
*Richard Monette (1963) - Actor, artistic director of the Stratford Festival of Canada from 1994 to 2007
*Mark Starowicz (1964) - Writer, historian, producer, journalist
*Jim Flaherty (1966) - Minister of Finance
*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

Coat of Arms

The name Loyola is derived from the Spanish "Lobo-y-olla", meaning wolf and kettle. The School's 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's crest includes the Jesuit motto Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam meaning "for the greater glory of God".

Loyola in Print

*Dr. Gil Drolet, "Loyola, The Wars: In Remembrance of 'Men for Others'", (Waterloo: Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, 1996)
*T.P. Slattery, "Loyola and Montreal", (Montreal: Palm Publishers, 1962)

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