De La Salle High School - Delta Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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MR. MATT WALSH Of the Class of 1914 Furniture Manufacturer 4

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contents Achievement through Studies ADMINISTRATION 6 FACULTY 8 SENIOR OFFICERS 10 CLASSES 10 achievement rough Sport A FOOTBALL . 27 BASKETBALL 32 SWIMMING . 37 INTRAMURALS 38 Achievement rough sdcliuiticA RELIGION 42 HOMECOMING 44 SENIOR PROM 46 SENIOR HONORS . 48 CANDID SHOTS 50

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chieuemen t thROUQh stu6ies For a man to rise to eminence in the business world through hard work alone is a real story. It’s the story of Mr. Matt Walsh, of the class of 1914. Mr. Walsh is co-owner of the Northwestern Furniture Mart, a wholesale company with factories and sales offices in Dubuque, Dallas, and Minneapolis. The latter has more than 90,000 square feet of floor space devoted exclusively to furniture display rooms. When Matt Walsh was graduated from Dc La Salle, the school offered only a three-year commercial course. His knowledge of shorthand enabled him to take a job with the firm as a stenographer at a few dollars a week. By 1920 he was promoted as a salesman on the floor. In 1925 he went on the road and returned a few years later to Minneapolis as sales manager. From there it was a short step to partnership in the firm. Grateful to the Christian Brothers for his education, Mr. Walsh said, “I’m not a tremendous success, but any success I do have I owe directly to my training at De La Salle.” And he might have added, to studies and hard work.” 5