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CRIMSON SHIELD
THE ONLINE MAGAZINE OF BROTHER MARTIN HIGH SCHOOL
April 2013
Published Monthly September through May
News and Notes
On April 1, the New Orleans Province of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart elected a new provincial who isn't really new.
  • Brother Ivy LeBlanc, S.C., served as provincial from 2000-2006 after a long tenure as principal and then president of Brother Martin. He will again lead the province as it prepares for its merger with the other two United States provinces. The date is set as July 1, 2014, pending final approval of the Supe­rior General in Council in Rome.
  • Brother Ronald Hingle, S.C., ('78) was reelected to the Pro­vincial Council. He continues as the Vocation Director for the U.S. Federation, the entity that will be replaced when the full merger takes place.
  • The other councillors are two men who taught and served in administration at Brother Martin, Brother Francis David, S.C., and Brother Barry Landry, S.C., along with Brother Xavier Werneth, S.C.

The Louisiana Life magazine features Saints/Pelicans owner Tom Benson ('44) on the cover.

Tom Benson
Tom Benson ('44)

Did You Know?

Greg Buisson
Greg Buisson ('77)

 

 
The administration of Brother Donnan, S.C., decided on a change in the grading system for 1976-7.

Semester exams would no longer count as 1/3 of the semester average but rather 1/2.

Crusader editor Greg Buisson, while calling the new system "psy­chologically unsound," tried to calm his fellow Crusaders by noting:


Out of the 125 grade combination possibilities, which figure out the overall semester average based on each quarter and the exam, the new system will change the student's grade 31 times. Twen­ty-six of the changes will aid the student by raising his grade, while only 5 changes will ower the overall grade.

This was by no means the last modification of the grading system. The semester exam hasn't counted as a separate grade for quite some time. Each quarter exam currently counts as 1/3 of that quarter's grade.
Photo Quiz
Pictured are the new faculty for 1975-6. How many can you identify? Two are still on the staff at Brother Martin as of 2012-3.
New Faculty 1975-6 
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