All Topics  
Loyola Academy

 
Loyola Academy

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Loyola Academy
 
 
  Topics Loyola Academy Topic Home

Loyola Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school
University-preparatory school

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary education, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education....
, located in Wilmette
Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette is a village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. It is located north of Chicago's downtown district and has a population of 27,651....
, Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
, a northern suburb of Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The Archdiocese of Chicago is one of the largest dioceses in the nation by population and comprises Cook County, Illinois and Lake County, Illinois counties, covering of Illinois....
, it is one of 47 Jesuit
Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits, Soldiers of Jesus Christ, and Foot soldiers of the Pope, because the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight before becoming a Holy Orders....
 high schools in the United States and is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association
Jesuit Secondary Education Association

The Jesuit Secondary Education Association was founded in 1970 to address the unique needs of the Society of Jesus secondary education in the United States apostolate in the United States....
. It is also the largest Jesuit high school in America, with over 2,000 students from more than 80 different zip codes throughout the Chicago area.

la Academy was founded as a Roman Catholic, college preparatory school for young men in 1909.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Loyola Academy'
Start a new discussion about 'Loyola Academy'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Loyola Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school
University-preparatory school

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary education, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education....
, located in Wilmette
Wilmette, Illinois

Wilmette is a village in New Trier Township, Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. It is located north of Chicago's downtown district and has a population of 27,651....
, Illinois
Illinois

The State of Illinois is a U.S. state of the United States, the 21st to be admitted to the United States. Illinois is the most populous and demographically diverse Midwestern United States state and the fifth most populous state in the nation....
, a northern suburb of Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. The Archdiocese of Chicago is one of the largest dioceses in the nation by population and comprises Cook County, Illinois and Lake County, Illinois counties, covering of Illinois....
, it is one of 47 Jesuit
Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits, Soldiers of Jesus Christ, and Foot soldiers of the Pope, because the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight before becoming a Holy Orders....
 high schools in the United States and is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association
Jesuit Secondary Education Association

The Jesuit Secondary Education Association was founded in 1970 to address the unique needs of the Society of Jesus secondary education in the United States apostolate in the United States....
. It is also the largest Jesuit high school in America, with over 2,000 students from more than 80 different zip codes throughout the Chicago area.

History

Loyola Academy was founded as a Roman Catholic, college preparatory school for young men in 1909. The school was originally located in Rogers Park, Chicago
Rogers Park, Chicago

Rogers Park is the northernmost of Chicago community areas in the far Chicago#North_Side of Chicago, Illinois, Illinois, and is also the name of the Neighborhoods of Chicago that constitutes most of the community area....
, on the campus of Loyola University Chicago's
Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago is a private university Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States....
 Dumbach Hall; it moved to the current Wilmette campus in 1957. Both Loyola University and its prep school adjunct, Loyola Academy, were named after the Basque intellectual and Spanish Army General, Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola

Saint Ignatius of Loyola was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus.The compiler of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola, Ignatius was described by Pope Benedict XVI as being above all a man of God, who gave the first place of his life to God, and a man of profound prayer....
, who founded the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits).

As a precondition to granting approval to move to the suburbs, the Archdiocese of Chicago required the Jesuits to stipulate that they would continue to serve the young Roman Catholic men of the city of Chicago. Consequently, Loyola Academy had a significant representation of Chicago residents, of various financial means which gave the school an economic diversity unique in the Chicago area.

During the bulk of its history, Loyola Academy maintained the strict disciplinary and academic regimen seen in most exclusive American prep schools. Students were required to wear blazers and ties, maintain silence when moving between classes, attend weekly Mass on campus, address their teachers as either "sir" or "Father," and maintain a demeanor befitting the Jesuit educational ideal of "Men for others."

Penalties for infractions were meted out in the form of demerits (inscribed on a demerit card carried by each student) or by after school detention, known colloquially as "JUG" (commonly believed to be an abbreviation for "Justice Under God"). During most of the period 1909-1975, the student body of Loyola Academy was almost 100% Roman Catholic. During this time frame, Loyola Academy surpassed all other schools in the Chicago Catholic secondary system in terms of SAT scores and percentage of student body admitted to 4-year universities.

One of Loyola's "sister schools" was Regina Dominican High School, an all-girls Academy located less than a mile away in Wilmette. Beginning in 1970, small groups of select Regina students began commuting to Loyola to take selected advanced science and computer science classes, as these classes were unavailable on their campus at the time. Prior to its controversial decision to go co-educational, Loyola had a significant Jesuit presence among its teachers and administrators, although this had begun to slowly erode beginning in the early 1970s.

In 1994, Loyola Academy merged with Saint Louise de Marillac High School
Saint Louise de Marillac High School

Saint Louise Marillac High School was an all-girls Catholic secondary school in Northfield, Illinois, Illinois, United States from 1967 to 1994, run by the Daughters of Charity....
, an all-girls high school from Northfield, Illinois
Northfield, Illinois

Northfield is an affluent village in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States. It is located approximately 19 mi north of Chicago. As of the United States Census, 2000, the village population was 5,389....
, which was on the verge of bankruptcy and became a co-educational school . In 2003, Loyola Academy opened a new campus in Glenview, Illinois
Glenview, Cook County, Illinois

Glenview is a suburban village located approximately 18 mi north of downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, Illinois. As of the United States Census, 2000, the village population was 41,847....
. The property, once part of the abandoned Glenview Naval Air Station (NAS Glenview), was purchased by Loyola in 2001 and now houses several athletic fields for lacrosse, baseball, softball, and soccer, a cross country
Cross country running

Cross Country running is a sport in which runners compete to complete a course over open or rough terrain. The courses used at these events may include Poaceae, mud, woodlands, and water....
 path, and a wetland
Wetland

File:Mangrove trees in Everglades.JPGA wetland is an area of land whose soil is saturated with moisture either permanently or seasonally. Such areas may also be covered partially or completely by shallow pools of water....
 preserve area that has been used as a natural laboratory
Laboratory

A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which science research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories....
 for science classes.

While Loyola Academy is a Jesuit, Catholic school, it has always welcomed non-Catholics seeking a Loyola education.

Academics at Loyola Academy

Loyolaacademyaerial
Loyola Academy offers a comprehensive liberal arts
Liberal arts

The term liberal arts refers to the education derived from the Classical education curriculum....
 curriculum
Curriculum

In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of wiktionary:deed and experiences through which children grow and mature in becoming adults....
 with over 110 courses in language arts
Language arts

Language arts is the general academic subject area dealing with developing comprehension and capacity for use of written and oral language.Traditionally, the primary divisions in the language arts are Literature and Language, where language in this case refers to both linguistics, and specific languages....
, fine art
Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
s (dance
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
, music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
, theater
Theatre

Theatre is the branch of the performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one or more actor, isolated in time and/or Theater , present themselves to Audience." By this broad definition, theatre has existed since the dawn of man, as a result of human tendency for story telling....
, visual arts
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
, and architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
), foreign language
Foreign language

A foreign language is a language not spoken by the people of a certain place: for example, not only English language but also Late Old Japanese is a foreign language in Japan....
s (Spanish
Spanish language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
, French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
, German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
, Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
, Mandarin Chinese and Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
), mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
, physical education
Physical education

In most educational systems, physical education class,Phys Ed, is a course that utilizes learning in the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains in a play or movement exploration setting....
, science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
, social studies
Social studies

Social studies is a term used to describe the broad study of the various fields which involve past and current human behavior and interactions. Rather than focus in depth on any one topic, social studies provides a broad overview of human behavior....
, and theology
Theology

Theology is the study of the existence or attributes of a deity or gods, or more generally the study of religion or spirituality. It is sometimes contrasted with religious studies: theology is understood as the study of religion from an internal perspective , and religious studies as the study of religion from an external perspective....
. (As it is a college-preparatory high school, it does not offer any true vocational
Vocational education

Vocational education or Vocational Education and Training , also called Career and Technical Education , prepares learners for jobs that are based in manual or practical activities, traditionally non-academics and totally related to a specific trade, employment or vocation, hence the term, in which the learner participates....
 courses.) The school has two competitive honors programs (the Dumbach Scholars and the Clavius Scholars), and a plethora of students enrolled in AP classes
Advanced Placement Program

The Advanced Placement program offers college level courses at high schools across the United States and Canada. According to the Good Schools Guide International, it is "usually much more rigorous than the general course offerings."...
. 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
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
.

Loyola has a particularly strong tradition of educating students in the classics
Classics

Classics is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean World; especially Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome during Classical Antiquity ....
. The school fields a Certamen
Certamen

Certamen, Latin for "competition", is a quiz bowl style competition with classics-themed questions. The reference invokes the brief ancient Greek account of the Contest_of_Homer_and_Hesiod, Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi....
 team, and in 2005, six students received perfect scores on the National Latin Examination
National Latin Examination

The National Latin Examination is a worldwide test given to Latin students. Sponsored by the U.S.-based American Classical League and the National Junior Classical League, the exam was given to more than 148,000 students in the U.S., Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Niger, Poland, Switzerland, Uni...
, while 44 others were named Gold Medalists. In addition, Loyola Academy is one of only three high schools in the Chicago area to offer Ancient Greek as a language course. Loyola is also very active in forensics, Scholastic Bowl
Quizbowl

Quizbowl is a family of games of questions and answers on all topics of human knowledge, commonly played in high school and college. The game is played with a lockout buzzer system between some number of teams, most commonly two teams of four or five players each....
, and Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad

Science Olympiad is a primarily United States elementary school, middle school, or high school team competition that requires knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability....
 competitions.

  • For more detailed information about academics at Loyola, see:


Sports at Loyola Academy

Dscn0910
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
Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago is a private university Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States....
) have been particularly successful in Football
Football

File:Football4.pngFootball is the word given to a number of similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a Goal ....
. Prior to the IHSA Football Championships (1974), Loyola won the Prep Bowl in 1965, 1966 and 1969. Loyola won the state championship in football in 1993 and were runners-up in 1992. Other successful sports programs include lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
, crew and ice hockey
Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team sport played on ice. It is a fast paced and physical sport. Ice hockey is most popular in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural reliable seasonal ice cover such as Canada, the northern United States, Scandinavia and Russia, though with the advent of indoor artificial ice r...
. Each of these programs have won state championships within the last ten years in both the men's and women's programs. Additionally, the crew program was named national champions. The men's hockey
Hockey

Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round, rubber or heavy plastic disc called a Hockey puck, into the opponent's net or goal, using a hockey stick....
 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 women's cross-country team has competed at the state finals each year from 2005-2007. The men's golf
Golf

Golf is a sport in which players using many types of Golf club including wood , iron , and putter , attempt to hit golf ball into each hole on a golf course in the lowest possible number of strokes....
 and women's basketball
Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a basketball through a 10 feet  high hoop under organized rules....
 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. The 2007 and 2008 Ramblers' men's soccer teams, coached by former English pro soccer player Rob Etheridge, were each undefeated in winning Chicago Catholic League
Chicago Catholic League

The Chicago Catholic League is a high school athletic conference based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. All of the schools are currently part of the Illinois High School Association, the governing body for Illinois scholastic sports....
 championships. Loyola's greatest athletic rivals are widely considered to be New Trier Township High School
New Trier High School

New Trier High School is a public high school four-year high school with its major campus located in Winnetka, Illinois, Illinois, United States, and a second campus in Northfield, Illinois, Illinois, with freshman classes and district administration....
, and St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, its Jesuit rival within the Chicago Catholic League
Chicago Catholic League

The Chicago Catholic League is a high school athletic conference based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. All of the schools are currently part of the Illinois High School Association, the governing body for Illinois scholastic sports....
. Many Chicago-area sports figures have sent their children to Loyola Academy. These include former NBA superstar Chicago Bull
Chicago Bulls

The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
 Michael Jordan
Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a retired United States professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instr...
, former Chicago Bear
Chicago Bears

The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the NFC North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
 Dave Duerson
Dave Duerson

David Russell Duerson is a former American football Safety in the National Football League who played for the Chicago Bears , the New York Giants , and the Phoenix Cardinals ....
, Matt Suhey
Matt Suhey

Matthew Jerome Suhey is a former professional American football player, playing fullback /running back for ten seasons in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears....
, former Chicago Blackhawk
Chicago Blackhawks

The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
 Jack O'Callahan
Jack O'Callahan

Jack O'Callahan is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 390 National Hockey League regular season games between 1982 and 1989 for the Chicago Blackhawks and New Jersey Devils....
, and former Chicago Bulls player Bill Wennington
Bill Wennington

William Percey Wennington is a retired Canada basketball player in the National Basketball Association who won three NBA Finalss with the Chicago Bulls: the 1996, 1997 and 1998 teams....
. Recently, Loyola Academy hired John Holecek
John Holecek

John Francis Holecek is a former professional American football player who played linebacker for seven seasons for the Buffalo Bills, the San Diego Chargers, and the Atlanta Falcons....
, former NFL linebacker, to be the head coach of the football program. The team competes in the blue division of the Chicago Catholic League
Chicago Catholic League

The Chicago Catholic League is a high school athletic conference based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. All of the schools are currently part of the Illinois High School Association, the governing body for Illinois scholastic sports....
, one of the top high school football conferences in the country.

  • For more information, see , Chicago Catholic League
    Chicago Catholic League

    The Chicago Catholic League is a high school athletic conference based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. All of the schools are currently part of the Illinois High School Association, the governing body for Illinois scholastic sports....
     and


Service at Loyola Academy

Loyola places a particularly strong emphasis on community service
Community service

Community service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local community. People become involved in community service for a range of reasons ? for some, serving community is an altruistic act, for others it is a punishment....
, 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
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 and around the world, and during the school year, Loyola's "Life! Be In It!" program allows students to in participate in Amnesty International
Amnesty International

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization which defines its mission as "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated." Founded in London, England in 1961, AI draws its attention to human rights abuses and...
, Habitat for Humanity International
Habitat for Humanity International

Habitat For Humanity International is an international, ecumenical Christian, Non-governmental organization, non-profit organization devoted to building "simple, decent, and affordable" houses....
, 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


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. Charlie Heintz
  • Director of Ignatian Identity: Rev. Richard H. McGurn, S.J.
  • Dean of Students: Mr. Kenneth S. Maziarka
  • Director of Admissions: Mrs. Genevieve Atwood
  • Director of Athletics: Mr. Patrick M. Mahoney '90


Notable alumni

  • Jamie Baisley, professional football player
  • George Bon Salle
    George Bon Salle

    George H. Bon Salle is a former professional basketball player. A 6'8" power forward , he starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, before playing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
    , professional basketball player
  • Ed Boon
    Ed Boon

    Edward J. Boon is a video game game programmer, who works for Midway Games....
    , co-creator of Mortal Kombat video game series
  • John Dee
    John Dee (basketball coach)

    John F. Dee, Jr. was head basketball coach at the University of Notre Dame from 1964 in sports to 1971 in sports.During Dee's seven seasons at the helm of Notre Dame Basketball, he compiled a record of 116 wins and 80 losses....
    , basketball coach at the University of Alabama
    University of Alabama

    The University of Alabama is a state university coeducational university located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Alabama, United States. Founded in 1831, UA is the flagship university of the University of Alabama System....
     and the University of Notre Dame
    University of Notre Dame

    The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a private Roman Catholic Church University located in Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. It was founded by Father Edward Sorin, Congregation of Holy Cross, who was also the school's first president....
  • Richard A. Devine
    Richard A. Devine

    Richard A. "Dick" Devine was the State's Attorney of Cook County, Illinois, Illinois, United States from 1996 to 2008. He was elected to his third term in November 2004....
    , Cook County
    Cook County, Illinois

    Cook County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is the List of the most populous counties in the United States county in the United States after Los Angeles County, California....
     State's Attorney
    State's Attorney

    In the United States, the State's Attorney is an appointed or elected official who represents the State in criminal prosecutions and is often the chief law enforcement officer of their respective county, circuit....
  • R. Jerome Dunne, Olympic decathlete
  • Colin Falls
    Colin Falls

    Colin Falls is an American basketball player who spent the 2007–08 season with Orlandina Basket of Italy. A 6'5" shooting guard, Falls starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois and played four seasons for the University of Notre Dame, where he became the first player in school history to make more than 100 three-point field goal...
    , former Notre Dame basketball player, currently playing in Italy
  • Dave Finzer
    Dave Finzer

    Dave Finzer is a former professional American football player who played punter for two seasons for the Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks. He led the NFL in punts inside the 20-yard line with 26 in 1984....
    , professional football player
  • John Fitzgerald
    John Fitzgerald (modern pentathlete)

    John Fitzgerald is an United States Modern Pentathlon who represented the United States at the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics.From 1962 to 1966, Fitzgerald was a star swimming at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois....
    , Olympic pentathlete
    Modern pentathlon

    The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, ?p?e fencing , 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km Cross country running....
  • Paul Florence
    Paul Florence

    Paul Robert Florence , was a professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues in for the San Francisco Giants.He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Gainesville, Florida....
    , professional baseball player
  • Pat Foley
    Pat Foley

    Pat Foley is the television play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League.A native of Chicago, Illinois North Shore , Foley received a degree in telecommunications from Michigan State University....
    , sportscaster
    Sportscaster

    A sportscaster is a type of journalist on radio and/or television who specializes in reporting or commentating on sporting events. Sportscasting is often done live television, "in real-time"....
  • Tim Foley
    Tim Foley

    Thomas David "Tim" Foley is a retired American football player.Foley starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois before moving on to Purdue University, where he received All-American honors as a defensive back in 1969....
    , Pro-Bowl NFL football player, 1972 Miami Dolphins team
  • Christian Friedrich, Colorado Rockies First Round Draft Choice 2008
  • Neil Hartigan
    Neil Hartigan

    Neil F. Hartigan is an Illinois United States Democratic Party who has served as Attorney General of Illinois, Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, and a judge of the Appellate Court....
    , Illinois politician
  • Gilbert V. Hartke
    Gilbert V. Hartke

    Rev. Gilbert V. Hartke, O.P. was founder of The Catholic University of America?s Department of Speech and Drama, one of the first university drama programs in America....
    , social activist and founder of the Catholic University of America
    The Catholic University of America

    The Catholic University of America , located in Northeast Washington, D.C., is the national university of the Roman Catholic Church and the only higher education institution founded by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops....
    's drama department
  • Jim Irsay
    Jim Irsay

    James Irsay is the owner of the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was born June 13, 1959 in Lincolnwood, Illinois to a Jewish father and a Poland mother and later attended high school at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, a suburb just north of Chicago, Illinois....
    , owner of the Indianapolis Colts
    Indianapolis Colts

    The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana. The team is part of the American Football Conference South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Jeffrey Jordan
    Jeffrey Jordan

    Jeffrey Michael Jordan is an United States college basketball player for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He played high school basketball for Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, Illinois....
    , basketball player and son of NBA MVP Michael Jordan
    Michael Jordan

    Michael Jeffrey Jordan is a retired United States professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of all time." Jordan was one of the most effectively marketed athletes of his generation and was instr...
  • Neal Katyal
    Neal Katyal

    'Neal Kumar Katyal' is the Principal Deputy United States Solicitor General. Prof. Katyal was the Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Center and the lead counsel in the Supreme Court case Hamdan v....
    , lead counsel in Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
    Hamdan v. Rumsfeld

    Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Case citation , is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Guantanamo military commissions set up by the George W....
  • Dan Kotowski
    Dan Kotowski

    Dan Kotowski is a Democratic Party member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 33rd District since 2007.Kotowski and his wife Anne live in Park Ridge, Illinois with their two sons....
    , Illinois State Senator
  • Jay Lavender, writer and producer of The Break-Up
    The Break-Up

    The Break-Up is a 2006 in film romantic comedy film from Universal Pictures starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston. It was written by Jay Lavender and Jeremy Garelick, and directed by Peyton Reed....
  • Charlie Leibrandt
    Charlie Leibrandt

    Charles Louis "Charlie" Leibrandt, Jr. was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1979 to 1993 for the Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers ....
    , professional baseball player
  • Brendan Leonard
    Brendan Leonard

    Brendan Leonard is a filmmaker best known for his hit series on ABC Family, The Brendan Leonard Show....
    , filmmaker 1
  • Mike Leonard
    Mike Leonard

    Michael "Mike" Leonard is an American television journalist presently working for Today on NBC. Leonard has been a feature correspondent for the Today Show for 28 years, and is known for his stories on everyday life and the unique, creative way he presents his work....
    , author and correspondent for The Today Show
  • Freddie Lindstrom
    Freddie Lindstrom

    Frederick Charles Lindstrom was a Major League Baseball player during the 1920s and 1930s. A third baseman and outfielder, Lindstrom was best known for his bat as he hit over .300 in seven of his thirteen seasons....
    , professional baseball player 2
  • David Marconi
    David Marconi

    David Marconi is an United States screenwriter and film director. His writing credits include the screenplays for Enemy of the State and Live Free or Die Hard....
    , screenwriter
  • Lucas McGee
    Lucas McGee

    Lucas Whitney McGee is a former US Rowing National Team member, former Oxford Blue Boat member, current Freshman Coach of rowing at University of Washington....
    , United States National Rowing Team member
  • Bert Metzger
    Bert Metzger

    Bert Metzger was an United States American football player.A 5'9", 152 pound guard from Chicago, Illinois, Metzger played at the University of Notre Dame and was nicknamed the "watch-charm guard" because of his relatively small size....
    , member of the College Football Hall of Fame
    College Football Hall of Fame

    The College Football Hall of Fame, located in South Bend, Indiana, USA, is a Hall of Fame and museum devoted to college football. It is situated in the renovated downtown district, near convention centers and not far from the campus of University of Notre Dame....
  • Al Montoya
    Al Montoya

    ?lvaro "Al" Montoya is a professional ice hockey goaltender. He is currently a prospect in the Phoenix Coyotes system of the. Montoya was born to a Cuban mother....
    , professional ice hockey player 3
  • Jim Mooney, professional football player
  • Bill Murray
    Bill Murray

    'William James' "'Bill'" 'Murray' is an Academy Award-nominated United States comedian and actor. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, following that with roles in films such as Stripes , Caddyshack, The Razor's Edge , Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day , Space Jam, Rushmore and What Abo...
    , actor and comedian
  • John Musker
    John Musker

    John Musker is an American animation director.Musker is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with Ron Clements. He first met Clements during the production of The Fox and the Hound , where he worked as a character animator under Clements....
    , animated film director (The Little Mermaid
    The Little Mermaid (1989 film)

    The Little Mermaid is a 1989 in film animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation with a pencil test beginning on September 23, 1988 and its first release on November 17, 1989 distributed by Walt Disney Pictures....
    , etc.)
  • Richard L. Newhafer
    Richard L. Newhafer

    Richard L. Newhafer was an United States novelist, teleplay writer and television director whose experience as a highly decorated veteran of World War II and the Korean War played a key role in his books and in his contribution to American Broadcasting Company's 1960s series Combat! and Twelve O'Clock High ....
    , novelist and teleplay writer
  • Jonathan Nolan
    Jonathan Nolan

    Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan is an Academy Award-nominated author who was born in London and raised in the Chicago area. His most famous work is the short story "Memento Mori ", which was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the basis for the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Memento ....
    , writer
  • George M. O'Brien
    George M. O'Brien

    George Miller O'Brien is a former member of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican Party who represented Illinois' 17th congressional district....
    , United States Representative
  • Timothy L. O'Brien
    Timothy L. O'Brien

    Timothy L. O'Brien is an United States journalist. He is editor of the New York Times Sunday Business section. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal and Talk ....
    , The New York Times
    The New York Times

    The New York Times is an American daily newspaper published in New York City. The largest metropolitan newspaper in the United States, "The Gray Lady"?named for its staid appearance and style?is regarded as a national newspaper of record....
     journalist
  • Chris O'Donnell
    Chris O'Donnell

    Christopher Eugene O'Donnell is a Golden Globe-nominated United States actor, perhaps best known for playing Robin in the Batman films, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin , Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, and more recently, Jack McAuliffe in The Company ....
    , actor
  • Westbrook Pegler
    Westbrook Pegler

    Francis James Westbrook Pegler was an American journalist and writer. Known early in his career as a fierce opponent of both fascism and communism, he was later attacked as fascist, pro-Nazi, and antisemitic....
    , newspaper columnist4
  • William Petersen
    William Petersen

    William Louis Petersen is a Golden Globe and Emmy nominated American actor and producer, best known for playing Gil Grissom on the hit CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
    , actor 5
  • Bill Plante
    Bill Plante

    Bill Plante is a veteran journalist and correspondent for CBS News, having joined the network in 1964. He has been the senior White House Press Corps for CBS since January 1993 and reports regularly on The Early Show and the CBS Evening News....
    , journalist with CBS News
    CBS News

    CBS News is the news division of American television and radio network CBS. Its current president is Sean McManus who is also head of CBS Sports....
  • Gregory Qaiyum (GQ)
    GQ (actor)

    Gregory J. Qaiyum, better known by his initials, GQ, is an American actor, writer and MC.The son of a White American mother of Germans and English people descent and a Pakistani father....
    , actor and writer of The Bomb-itty of Errors
    The Bomb-itty of Errors

    The Bomb-itty of Errors is a hip hop theatre retelling of Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors. Written and performed by Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, GQ , and Erik Weiner, the show has been performed in New York City , London , Chicago, Dublin, Edinburgh, Florida, Aspen, Colorado, Syracuse, New York, and Los Angeles....
  • Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum (JAQ)
    JAQ

    Jaq redirects here. For the name 'Jaq' see Jacques.'JAQ', born 'Jeffery Ameen Qaiyum', is an American professional b-boy, writer and MC....
    , beatboxer
    Beatboxing

    File:Beatboxset1_pepouni.oggBeatboxing is a form of vocal percussion which primarily involves the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one's mouth, lips, tongue, voice, and more....
     and contributor to The Bomb-itty of Errors
  • Steve Quinn
    Steve Quinn

    Steve Quinn is a former professional American football player who played offensive tackle for one season for the Houston Oilers....
    , professional football player
  • Nick Rassas
    Nick Rassas

    Nick Rassas is a former professional American football player who played defensive back for two seasons for the Atlanta Falcons....
    , professional football player
  • Todd Rassas, professional lacrosse player
  • Robert Ryan
    Robert Ryan

    Robert Bushnell Ryan was an Academy Award and British Academy of Film and Television Arts-nominated United States actor who often played hardened cops and ruthless villains....
    , actor
  • Eddie Shin
    Eddie Shin

    Eddie Shin is a Korean-American actor. He played the role of Roger on the short lived That '80s Show, and he has also had recurring roles on Gilmore Girls, ER , Point Pleasant , and Girls Club....
    , actor
  • Bob Skoglund
    Bob Skoglund

    Robert W. "Bob" Skoglund was an United States Professional sports American football player.Skoglund was born in Chicago, Illinois. He starred at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois before attending the University of Notre Dame....
    , professional football player
  • Peter Steinfels
    Peter Steinfels

    Peter F. Steinfels is an United States journalism and educator best known for his writings on religion topics.A native of Chicago, Illinois, and a lifelong Roman Catholic, Steinfels earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Columbia University and joined the staff of the journal Commonweal in 1964....
    , author of A People Adrift: The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America
  • Dan Sullivan
    Dan Sullivan (Illinois politician)

    Dan Sullivan is an Illinois Senate. He is a graduate of Loyola Academy....
    , Illinois State Senator
  • John Tobias
    John Tobias

    John Tobias is one of the creators of the groundbreaking Mortal Kombat fighting game series....
    , co-creator of Mortal Kombat
  • Charles Whittingham, PBS
    Public Broadcasting Service

    The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
     executive and former publisher of Life
    Life (magazine)

    File:Coles Phillips2 Life.jpgLife generally refers to three United States magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936....
     and Fortune
    Fortune (magazine)

    Fortune is a International business magazine published by Time Inc. Fortune|Money Group. Founded by Henry Luce in 1930, the publishing business, consisting of Time, Life , Fortune, and Sports Illustrated, grew to become Time Warner....
     magazines


  • 1 Did not graduate from Loyola; transferred to North Shore Country Day School
    North Shore Country Day School

    North Shore Country Day School, is a small private school founded in 1919 which is located in Winnetka, Illinois. It has classes from Junior Kindergarten through 12th grades and is organized into a lower school , middle school , and upper 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
    Texas

    Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
     after sophomore year.
  • 4 Did not graduate from Loyola; dropped out after a few semesters to take a job as a reporter.
  • 5 Did not graduate from Loyola; moved to Idaho
    Idaho

    The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....
     when he was 15 and transferred to Bishop Kelly High School
    Bishop Kelly High School

    Bishop Kelly High School is a private Roman Catholic high school in Boise, Idaho, operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise. It opened its doors in the fall of 1964, succeeding St....
    .


External links