President's Dinner 2012

What a celebration!

With approximately 700 guests filling the Grand Ballroom at the Hilton Chicago Friday night, the Loyola Academy community honored Father Jack Wall with the Rev. Daniel A. Lord S. J. Award for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Youth. Rev. Patrick McGrath, S.J. spoke about how each and every day the mission of Loyola Academy is lived out in the classroom, on the sports fields and in the service that our students do here in Chicago, as well as abroad. That mission is forming young women and men to live meaningful lives in leadership and service in imitation of Jesus Christ. The future is so bright!!

Father Wall gratefully accepted this honor and spoke of the role that young people have in the life of the Church. He spoke of the crucial role Loyola Academy plays in the future of our church and our world.

Please click on the videos below to hear the inspiring comments by Rev. Patrick McGrath, S.J. and Father Jack Wall.

We are grateful to all of you who shared in the evening and hope that you enjoyed the dinner, dancing and great sense of community that filled the room on Friday night. If you couldn’t be with us, please check out the photo gallery and the videos to see what a wonderful celebration it was. Please know that you were missed!

We are especially grateful to our Donors and Underwriters to the 2012 President’s Dinner. Your generosity helps to ensure that the mission of Loyola Academy lives on in the lives of our students. There is still time to make a donation to the mission of Loyola Academy. Click here to donate to the 2012 President’s Dinner.