As part of its outreach to the Province of Haiti following the devastating earthquake there, the New Orleans Province of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart is hosting a second Haitian brother. Brother Jean Marie Pierre lives at the City Park residence and, as his confrere, Brother Bertrand Petit Frere, did two years ago,has begun his work at the University of New Orleans in the Intensive English Language Program preparatory to becoming an undergraduate the second semester. Brother Bertrand completed his bachelor's degree and is pursuing a Masters Degree at UNO.
Several alumni are involved in the reorganization of the Times-Picayune. Mark Lorando ('81), formerly the features editor, directs the metro news and entertainment coverage in the three-days-a-week newspaper and on nola.com. Keith Spera ('85) continues as music writer. He has also contributed to Rolling Stone, Vibe, Blender, LA Weekly, and other publications as well as numerous documentaries.
Mark Lorando
Keith Spera
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Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel
Times-Picayune May 12, 1953: "Prep Parade" column by N. Charles Wicker
The Brothers of the Sacred Heart don't have a name for their new school out in Gentilly yet. If we may we’d like to make a suggestion.
Lambert Memorial, in honor of the late provincial and school head.
The first choice of the Brothers was to call the new school the Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel High School but his excellency was not in favor of the idea.
Under consideration is Cor Jesu, which means Heart of Jesus.
The new school's construction was delayed by a nationwide steel strike that lasted from April to August, 1952.
As a result, the freshmen who had been accepted to the Elysian Fields school were housed "temporarily" at St. Aloysius until the new building was completed.
Cor Jesu opened in September 1954 with freshmen and sophomores.
One wonders: If the school had been called Archbishop Rummel, would that name have prevailed when the merger with Aloysius occurred in 1969? After all, it was the archbishop's Youth Progress Program that financed the construction of 70 new Catholic schools, including Cor Jesu and the one that was named for him following his death in 1960.
Photo Quiz
Identify the Cor Jesu graduate pictured at the right.
Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel