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

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Mony were active in local civic group which were striving to continue the improvement of our city with the tome pioneering spirit of the 1850's but using the modern methods of the 1950' . With the trend to suburban living, o new Christian Brothers' high school was proposed for construction in response to tho growing demand for onother Catholic boys' high school. Suburban life is the herald of the futuro. New shopping confers are springing up, and stroots are being broadened to boulevards. Plans for Minneapolis include a civic center to replace the courthouse, slum clearance, a revamped business district, and a host of other radically new improvements now on the drawing boards. The future looks bright. Wo pray that it is oven more successful than the first hundred years for we will be part of it. Yes. indeed tomorrow's the future still.

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C®tnor Ma««ap-« A wm end Wothing-ton Axnvt South. 04. (Pfetwo towr-lair Minnoopoti PwWk Ubrory) Milting d«tt kl of Minnoopola. with lorgo gioln alavo'O't and mlllt lotottd on both •idot of tha Miiiitiippi «i»at at St. Anthony Fofli (Pktwta cowrtoiy Mlnnoopofit Chombar of Cottuwarca) 10 PropoMd re-de»elep»n «l p o« of Ioorot loop o oo l» Minnoopolii (Pfctvro Owr-inji MlMtopolit Sion In 1931 the Islondert took the Notional Catholic Basketball Championship in the Loyola tournament at Chicago. Between 1925 and 1937 Island hardwood teams under Coach George C. Roberts held nine conference championships and one regional crown. During World War II, everyone took part in the big drive to win, and DLS was no exception. Fifty-five former students gove their lives for our country. On April 19, 1942, DE was the first Minneapolis school to have a unit of its students donate blood. A mild wave of enlistments rippled through the ranks of the upperclassmen ond o score or two of them volunteered. After the draft lows were revised to coll oil men over 18. on accelerated educational program was instituted for everyone interested in completing high school before his 18th birthday. Numbering eight seniors, the first mid-year graduating class in the history of fee La Salle High School received its diplomas on January 28, 1943. When the Johnnies came marching home, they were ready to readjust to postwar Minneapolis. They felt fortunote to live in o city which enjoyed one of the lowest rotes for both crime and Occident in cities over the half a million population.

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