Brother Noël Pruneau, FSC, of the Francophone Canada District, died on May 18, 2016, in Laval (Québec), Canada. He was 95 years old. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS: Thursday, May 26, 2016 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Visitation Résidence De La Salle 300, chemin du Bord-de-l’Eau Laval Friday, May 27, 2016 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.: Visitation Salon [...]
Brother James Steck, FSC, of the District of Eastern North America, died May 20, 2016, at De La Salle Hall, in Lincroft, New Jersey. He was 71 years old. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS: Monday, May 23, 2016 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., Visitation De La Salle Hall 810 Newman Springs Rd. Lincroft, NJ 07738 Tuesday, May 24, 2016 5:00 [...]
Margaret “Maggie” Naughton will join the staff of the Lasallian Volunteers as associate director effective June 14, 2016. Naughton currently serves as a campus minister at La Salle Academy in Providence, Rhode Island. Prior to taking on that role in 2009, she had served as a theology teacher since joining the school in 2005. During [...]
Courtesy District of Eastern North America After nearly 12 years of dedicated service, Brother Gerry Frendreis, FSC, chief financial officer at Christian Brothers Conference (CBC), will complete his service effective August 30, 2016. Brother Gerry joined CBC in January 2005, and has fulfilled a number of needs during more than a decade of [...]
Lasallians are invited to submit breakout presentation proposals for the 2016 Huether Lasallian Conference, which will be held November 17-19 in Chicago, Illinois. Presentation proposals should be 75 minutes in length and address this year’s conference theme of “The Good Samaritan: Confronting the New Poverties in the 21st Century.” The deadline for submissions is June 15. [...]
Sarah Laitinen will join Christian Brothers Conference as the director of Lasallian programs August 15, 2016. Laitinen, who currently serves as a teacher at The San Miguel School of Providence in Rhode Island, brings a strong Lasallian background. After graduating from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in elementary education, [...]
The planning committee for the fifth annual International Symposium on Lasallian Research is accepting proposals for presentations at the 2016 symposium, which will be held September 25-27 at the Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus. The committee encourages proposals that address research themes developed by the International Association of Lasallian Universities (IALU), however, others will be [...]
The 12th issue of the Digital Journal of Lasallian Research, titled “Learning Together, Teaching Together, Creative Fidelity and Current Challenges” is now available. The journal features nine articles by an international group of Lasallian researchers on the question of the nature and evolution of Lasallian educational praxis in the 21st century. Discussions in this most [...]
The July 2016 – December 2017 Lasallian Pocket Calendar and Directory of Places is now available! The calendar includes important Lasallian dates and addresses. It marks Lasallian feasts, Catholic liturgical days and legal holidays in the United States and Canada, along with providing an inspirational mix of monthly quotes in English and French from the [...]
Brother Roland Sauvageau, FSC, of the Francophone Canada District, died on May 11, 2016, in Laval (Québec), Canada. He was 95 years old. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS: Thursday, May 19, 2016 9:30 a.m.. Visitation Saint-Jean-Baptiste-De La Salle Quebec city 11:00 a.m., Funeral mass Saint-Jean-Baptiste-De La Salle Quebec city The cremains will be buried later at Notre-Dame-de-Belmont Cemetery, [...]