Past News Articles
La Salle Institute Joins VFW Event
On Thursday, January 15, 2015, La Salle Institute participated in a benefit for the Sheehy-Palmer VFW Post 6776. The event, held at Crossgates Mall, included a private dinner and viewing to the movie "American Sniper". [...]
Manhattan College Spring Events
Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center to Host Five Events During Spring Semester Manhattan College’s HGI Center will focus on the Holocaust and its lingering effects throughout the 2015 spring semester. The Holocaust, Genocide and [...]
Advent Activities of Our Lasallians
St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute - Buffalo Each year, St. Joe's conducts their annual food drive. The numbers raised are staggering, and fill a great need. La Salle Academy - Providence Daily prayer over the PA [...]
St. Raymond’s and UrbanPlan Educational Program
Urban Land Institute New York (ULI New York) has launched its UrbanPlan educational program in the New York City metropolitan area. UrbanPlan is serving even more New York City high schools this year, educating and [...]
La Salle Institute Commits to Habitat for Humanity
As part of a multi-year commitment to Habitat for Humanity, members of the La Salle Institute senior class are pictured at 204 Sheridan Avenue in Albany, NY. Over sixty housing units will be built in [...]
Sunday Gospel Reflection (01/18/15)
Gospel - John 1: 35-42 John was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples heard what he said and [...]
CBA Lego Robotics Team Wins Teamwork Award
The Christian Brothers Academy Lego Robotics team includes front row (left to right): Andrew Goldberg of Fayetteville, Guy Germain of Cazenovia, Tommy Fletcher of Fayetteville, Max Lewis of Liverpool, Nick Merola of Brewerton, Conlan Rourke [...]
Barrytown Stained Glass Windows Project
The project to move the historic collection of De La Salle stained glass windows from the Brother's Novitiate in Barrytown to the Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers at Manhattan College is underway and expected [...]
Sunday Gospel Reflection (01/11/15)
Gospel - Mark 1: 7-11 This is what John the Baptist proclaimed: “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals. I have [...]
Advent Service at The De La Salle School
Songs and Prayers of Hope and Joy characterized the Advent Prayer Service of The De La Salle School of Freeport on December 17, 2014.
Bill Jesinkey, AFSC
The ministries of the legacy LINE District are now enfolded into DENA. While the foundation of the ministry of the Martin de Porres Schools was built by the Christian Brothers, the name, person, and work [...]
Sunday Gospel Reflection (01/04/15)
Gospel - Matthew 2: 1-12 When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, “Where is the newborn king of the [...]
Sunday Gospel Reflection (12/28/14)
Gospel - Luke 2: 22; 39-40 When the days were completed for their purification according to the law of Moses, they took him up to Jerusalem to present him to the Lord. When they had [...]
Warming House Stocked by SJCI Samaritans
Eighty miles from home Friday, private school students helped hungry people they might never meet. For the 33rd straight year, students from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, an all-boys school in Tonawanda, made a massive food [...]
1939: 60 Students at Junior Novitiate
At the beginning of the 1939-40 school year, the 60 students of the junior novitiate (high schoolers) of the legacy New York District assembled for their group photograph. Within the same huge building in Barrytown, NY, was the [...]
1939: Horseback in Central Park
Twice a week on the bridle paths of Central Park, the 15 members of the Equestrian Club of De La Salle Institute (NYC) would give their horses a workout. Source: The Messenger of the Divine [...]
1939: 200 Years for School in Crest, France
The 200th anniversary of a school in the city of Crest (southeastern France) at which the Christian Brothers conducted beginning in the 1680s. Source: Bulletin des Ecoles Chretiennes, October 1939, pp. 288-289.
1939: Lincoln Hall Cottages
This is one of the nine structures of the rejuvenated Lincoln Hall, dedicated on October 12, 1939. The Christian Brothers began conducting the New York Catholic Protectory in the Bronx in the 1860s, but widened [...]
1939: Spellman Speaks at Lincoln Hall Dedication
Christian Brothers filled the first several rows in the assembly hall where Archbishop (later Cardinal) Spellman addressed the audience for the Lincoln Hall dedication in 1939. Source: The Messenger of the Divine Child, Christmas 1939, p. [...]
1939: Lincoln Hall Dedicated
Archbishop (later Cardinal) Francis Spellman -- pictured center wearing the tall mitre and holding his crozier -- officiated at the dedication of the new buildings at Lincoln Hall (Westchester County, NY) on Columbus Day, October 9, [...]
New Education Programs at Manhattan
New Education Programs Geared Toward Special Education in High Schools Manhattan College will offer two new programs designed to help students fill special education teaching positions in high schools. Manhattan College now offers two advanced [...]
1939: Lincoln Hall Boys
One of the Christian Brothers who staff Lincoln Hall greets some of his residents in a cottage on the Lincoln Hall property. Football helmets constructed of leather were standard equipment at every level of this [...]
1939: 13 Young Brothers
Seated: Brothers D. Gabriel, F. Thomas, F. Gregory, G. Benilde, G. Tatian, D. Lewis Standing: Brothers G. Patricks, F. William, F. Paul, D. Adelbert, F. Leo, D. Austin At Ammendale, MD, on September [...]
CBA Syracuse Learning Outside the Classroom
It has been a busy fall for the students at Christian Brothers Academy, as each class, (with the exception of the junior class who will be going to Washington, DC in the spring) either went [...]
Lincroft and Providence Lasallians Off to Cross Country Nationals
La Salle Academy's Regional Championship team. Wappingers Falls, NY - Christian Brothers Academy, despite having its streak of four straight titles ended by fellow Lasallian school, La Salle Acadmey - Providence, still advanced [...]