Lasallian Student Leaders Gather in California

In late July, Saint Mary’s College of California was the site of a large and enthusiastic gathering of young men and women who came from Lasallian schools across the west in order to help one another to develop the skills for effective leadership in their school communities and to gain a deeper understanding of the mission of Lasallian education.

The District of San Francisco’s second annual Lasallian Student Leaders program took place on July 17 through 22, 2005, with more than more than 150 high school students, along with faculty, moderators, and facilitators, including seven members of Lasallian Collegians. The student participants were those in leadership positions at high schools in the District of San Francisco and two high schools from outside the District. With their moderators and facilitators, they spent the week living, praying, talking, and relaxing together, working to plan programs for their school communities and to establish collaborative relationships with other school communities.

Brad Sosinksy of De La Salle North Catholic High School in Portland, Oregon, summed up what he had learned during the weeklong conference this way: “As a leader I learned how to incorporate the Lasallian core principles into areas of my life.” According to event organizer Robert Jordan, assistant director of the Office of Education for the District of San Francisco, “LSL has become more than just leadership training for our students. For many of them, the program creates a new awareness that as student leaders they have an inherent responsibility to live out and model the mission of our schools.”

Schools represented at the conference included La Salle (Pasadena), La Salle (Yakima), De La Salle (Concord), De La Salle North Catholic (Portland), Justin-Siena (Napa), Saint Mary’s (Berkeley), Sacred Heart Cathedral (San Francisco), Christian Brothers (Sacramento), Cathedral (Los Angeles), J. K. Mullen (Denver), and Totino-Grace (Minneapolis).

For information on Lasallian Student Leaders and other programs and activities for young people sponsored by the Christian Brothers District of San Francisco, check the Young Lasallians page on this Web site, or contact Robert Jordan at rjordan@dlsi.org and (707) 252-3722. To learn more about any of the schools of the District of San Francisco, go to the Schools & Other Works page on this Web site.