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Flyers headed to Plaquemine

The Flyer defense has held five opponents to a touchdown or less this year.

Calling all alumni in the Baton Rouge/New Orleans area: The Flyers are headed your way.

You're invited to be join with the Flyer fans making their way from Shreveport on Friday for the Class 2A playoffs.

The Loyola football team will be in Plaquemine to play St. John to open the playoffs at 7 p.m. in a first round game to be played at Plaquemine High School.

The Flyers, who won three of the last four games, are 6-4 overall and seeded No. 24. St. John is 8-2 and seeded No. 9.

There are seven Flyers on the '07 roster who are the children of alumni: seniors Aubry Carmody (Art Carmody '74), Mark Earnest (Bob Earnest '76), Austin & Ross Lang (Susan Sicard Lang SVA '78), junior Tucker Ruben (James Ruben '79), sophomore Matthew Cordaro (Pat & Angie Cascio Cordaro, '72, SVA '74) and freshman Austin Mathias (Steve Mathias '83).

Also, four members of the coaching staff are alums: Head Coach John LeBlanc '84 and assistants Pat Maxey '80, Mike Camden '79 and Robert Harris '89.

Loyola closed the regular season with a 21-6 win against Red River at Messmer Stadium and then beat North Caddo 37-6 to assure a playoff berth. This is the 16th time in the last 17 years the Flyers have reached the playoffs.

On offense, quarterback Marshall Johnston had thrown for 788 yards and run for 256 more. Running back John Montgomery has 609 yards and nine touchdowns. Braylon Ash (29 catches) and Alexander Anglin (22 catches) lead the receiving corps. Two-time All-State selection Tripp George leads a stingy defense with 84 tackles, including 14 behind the line, and middle linebacker Austin Whitten has 74 tackles.

In other Flyer athletic news, the volleyball team completed an undefeated district season (9-0) and a district championship before being eliminated by McGehee (New Orleans) in the playoffs. Also, the cross country team won both the boys' and girls' team titles at the district meet and will run in the state meet in Natchitoches next week.  

 Touchstone, Haynie inducted into Hall

Touchstone

Haynie

Jack Touchstone ’70 and Dr. William Haynie, Sr. were inducted into the Flyer Alumni Association’s Hall of Honor during halftime ceremonies of the Loyola-Red River football game at Messmer Stadium. The criteria for Hall of Honor are based on service to school, religion and community. Selection is done by the Alumni Association and previous Hall of Honor inductees. With this year’s class, the Hall of Honor now has 54 members.

Touchstone, a member of the Class of 1970, served as president of the school’s Board of Trustees from 1997-1999. He is the founding president of Shreveport Little League and has served on the boards of the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Pierremont Oaks Tennis Club and O’Brien Energy Company. He is a member of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church. He is currently in the oil and gas investment business after serving as manufacturer’s representative for Eastland Shoe Company for 20 years. His two children are Loyola graduates.

Dr. Haynie is this year’s Honorary Alumnus. He recently retired from the practice of pediatrics after 50 years and delivered more than 20,000 newborns during his career. He was the founder of Mid-City Pediatrics in 1981 and also served as Chief of Staff at CHRISTUS Schumpert Medical Center. He was placed on the Shreveport Kiwanis “Tablet of Honor” for service to children in the Shreveport area. He received the Distinguished Physician Award from the Shreveport Medical Society in May, 2006, for “outstanding contributions to the advancement of medicine in Shreveport.” But Dr. Haynie considers his greatest thrill to be his marriage to his wife June and their raising of six children. Their four sons are graduates of Jesuit and all four currently practice medicine in Shreveport. Dr. Haynie is known as “Papa” to his 22 grandchildren – 11 of whom are Loyola graduates or current students.

81st BBQ is a tremendous success

If there were ever any doubt that the Loyola BBQ is the place to be on a Wednesday night in late October, those doubts were erased as the Alumni Association presented the 81st annual event.

The current Shreveport mayor was there. The previous mayor was there. Two political candidates were there. A Division I college basketball coach was there. Three local judges were there. High school coaches from schools throughout Northwest Louisiana were there.

And, of course, there were lots of people from the Loyola community -- alumni, parents and friends -- as well. Lots and lots of Loyola people.

More than 600 steaks were cooked to the gathering at Riverview Hall as one of the best crowds in years made its way to the annual event. Thanks to T.J. Mandina (event coordinator), Chuck Sicard (BBQ chairman), Dudley Lang (cook), Robert Pringle (Alumni Association president) and the many volunteers who made the event so successful.

Loyola active in CyberCommand

Many of you have heard of the move of Air Force's CyberCommand Center to Barksdale AFB. Construction of a Cyber Innovation Center (CIC), which would serve as the civilian counterpart to the AFCC, is scheduled to begin soon. The CIC will be built on a 58-acre site, near Barksdale. Bossier City has allotted $50 million for the construction, while the state of Louisiana has approved another $50 million.

From the beginning, Loyola has been active in being on the forefront of this exciting development. According to Principal Frank Israel, "Loyola's role in CyberCommand continues to unfold and grow each day. The local community is VERY excited about the potential for educational and economic growth presented by this arrival."

Among the initiatives Loyola has taken are:

1. Joined the CyberCommand Consortium to engage in conversation and planning for all facets of both private and public involvement in this move.
2. Submitted and received an AFCEA grant for science teaching involving the cyber domain.
3. Scheduled meetings with administrative people from a Catholic school in Rome, NY who have linked up with a military information systems unit at a base in their community.
4. Increased efforts at tech training for all of our faculty. (I just came from a very intense five hour meeting about tech use in classrooms.) We are working toward 100% of our teachers having full-time use of an LCD projector and either a Smartboard or a tablet PC, at their choosing.
5. Have scheduled to be part of a Cyber Symposium to be held here at the convention center in late November. Both kids and faculty will attend.
6. Have rewired all school buildings with Cat 5 wiring and business class wireless service. Additionally, all student computers (as of three weeks from today) will be no more than 18 months old, with over half being less than six months old.
7. Are currently looking at curricular additions for 08-09 school year to include more "high brow" computer software and/or hardware classes---this one is the subject of much discussion.
8. Have begun use of video conferencing to aid in short-term homebound instruction.
9. Are looking into video conferencing to share class offerings with other high schools and universities.

These items are being paid for by Parents' Association proceeds, funds from the Tobacco Settlement Lawsuit, and gifts from donors.

Alumni Update

MIKE RESTOVICH '65 has accepted a two-year diplomatic assignment as the Department of Homeland Security representative to the
United Kingdom. He and his wife will take up residence in Central London and remain until 2009. "We plan to travel Europe in our spare time. My daughter Traci will join us in May after completing her third year of college. My son Chad will remain in Frisco (Texas) where he's building a career with Evian."

PATRICK GARRETT '00 joined the Navy a little over a year ago and was picked up for SEAL training back in October, 2006, finished on
June 22, 2007, and scheduled to deploy before January 1. "I am on SEAL Team 1, stationed in San Diego along with my brother John, who just made Lieutenant and is on SEAL Team 3."

DARIN SMITH '007 was named Mid-American Conference Men's Swimmer of the Week for the last week of October after two first-place finishes and a second place finish in Miami's loss to Louisville and win over Xavier. Smith put together a solid weekend as the RedHawks split with Louisville and Xavier. In Miami's loss to Louisville, Smith gave the RedHawks a second-place finish in the 1,000 freestyle, before winning the 400 individual medley with a time of 4:11.97. Against Xavier, Smith blew by the field winning the 1,000 freestyle by over 21 seconds.

If you have any items for the Alumni Update, please send them to alumni@loyolaprep.org

Memorials

REV. (JOSEPH B.) J.B. LEININGER, SJ passed away on October 27, 2007. He was born in New Orleans on May 22, 1924 with his twin brother, Fr. Charles A. (C.A.) Leininger, SJ. He graduated from Jesuit High School in New Orleans in 1940 and entered the Society of Jesus along with his brother, C.A., in August of that year. They were ordained on June 17, 1953 and took their final vows on August 15, 1957. He served his Novitiate and Juniorate at St. Charles College in Grand Couteau, Louisiana from 1940-1944. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama in 1947, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from St. Louis University in 1955, and a Masters of Education in Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1967. He began his Jesuit teaching at Jesuit High School in Tampa in 1947 and proceeded to serve assignments at Jesuit High schools in Shreveport, New Orleans, Dallas, and Houston. He began his service at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston in 1972 and remained there until his retirement at the end of the 2005-2006 school year. Fr. Leininger is survived by his brother, Fr. C.A. Leininger, SJ, and his sister Yvonne Leininger.

Click the link below for a link to a Houston Chronicle article:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5259368.html

REV. GEORGE F. WILTZ, S.J., departed this life on October 26, 2007. Born in New Orleans on August 3, 1934, Father Wiltz graduated from Jesuit High School in 1952 and entered the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) on August 14, 1952. He was ordained a priest on June 7, 1965 in St. Joseph Chapel at Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. Father Wiltz served throughout the South in numerous capacities during his years as a priest: as director of Scholastics (seminarians) at Spring Hill College and Loyola University; as director of Montserrat Retreat House in Lake Dallas, TX; as president of Jesuit High School of Tampa, FL; as director of the Ignatius Retreat House in Atlanta, GA; as director of the Jesuit Seminary and Mission Bureau; and as retreat director at Manresa Retreat House in Convent, LA. At the time of his death, he was an associate pastor at Holy Name of Jesus Church in New Orleans, LA.

The E-Flyer is compiled by John James Marshall '77        Phone: (318) 226-6291      email: jjmarshall@loyolaprep.org