New Coordinator of Lasallian Student Programs

Marilyn Paquette

Marilyn Paquette has accepted the position of Coordinator of Lasallian Student Programs for the District of San Francisco effective July 1, 2006. She will work within the Office of Education at the De La Salle Institute in Napa to promote the heritage, mission, and vocation of the De La Salle Christian Brothers and their Partners through a variety of programs geared to students and young adults. Marilyn comes to this newly created position from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco, where she has served for the past five years as a teacher of social studies, history, and religion, and as a campus ministry team member. Prior to that she served for two years as a Lasallian Volunteer, living and working with the San Miguel School middle-school community in Providence, Rhode Island. Marilyn is a 1997 graduate of Saint Mary’s College of California, with a degree in history, and has earned her teacher certifications and her Masters Degree in Education from the Saint Mary’s College School of Education. She has also completed the Lasallian Leadership Institute. In her new position Marilyn will provide leadership and assistance to a number of District student programs, including Lasallian Youth, Lasallian Collegians, Venaver, Young Lasallians, and Lasallian Student Leaders. She will work with the Office of Education on providing support and resources for Campus Ministry, Service- Learning, and Lasallian Volunteers, and she will collaborate with the District’s new Director of Vocation Ministry, Brother George Van Grieken, FSC, in the development of school vocation programs and activities. Marilyn says that her “path as a Lasallian educator has been a blessed one,” with “the most transformative years” being those she spent as a Lasallian Volunteer. She says, “The last eleven years have guided me on a well-directed path that continues to open new doors while I learn and grow.”