CBHS announces students in Class of 2016 honors program
Christian Brothers High School is proud to announce the De La Salle Scholars cohort for the Class of 2016. The CBHS honors program is named for the founder of the Roman Catholic religious congregation of the Christian Brothers, St. John Baptist de La Salle, who knew that his mission — the temporal and eternal salvation of boys — could not be realized without lofty standards of excellence and a community of mutual support. To those ends, the program gathers a community of the most gifted and dedicated students with the purpose of holding each other to the highest standards of academic achievement, leadership and service. CBHS believes that intelligence is a gift and carries a sacred responsibility.
The program fosters an encouraging atmosphere and a culture of competing with, rather than against, each other for admission into the finest schools in the country. The 25 honors students in the Class of 2012 attained an average ACT score of 32 and included six National Merit finalists. Currently, 10 former CBHS honors students are enrolled in one of the United States Military Academies. In addition, Brothers’ Boys are now enrolled at Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Georgetown University, Notre Dame University, Vanderbilt University, University of Virginia, Southern California University and many more.
To date there are 87 De La Salle scholars with 42 freshmen, 23 sophomores, and 22 juniors out of the 850 boys in the overall student body.
Boys in the program are challenged to realize outstanding growth, pushing their goals beyond their own expectations. Freshman scholars are enrolled in AP or Honors World History, Honors Geometry, Honors Biology and Honors English I.
Austin Taylor of Memphis acknowledges the demands of the curriculum: “I have worked the hardest I ever had at CBHS — and I love it!”
Additional programming includes monthly cohort meetings, regular faculty advising sessions, PSAT/ACT/SAT prep sessions, and annual college road trips to visit highly selective schools.
Being a De La Salle Scholar heightens the spirit of brotherhood and academic excellence that is so unique to the Christian Brothers High School experience. Junior Michael Gattas explains, “We push each other to become stronger academically, spiritually and emotionally, and the support within the group is unlike any high school in the city. We know that our talents are worth nothing unless we use them to serve others, and nowhere else is De La Salle’s mission of fraternity exhibited so intensely.”
Members of the Class of 2016 De La Salle Scholars are: Parker Alperin, Spencer Blakley, Colby Bradshaw, Chris Burns, Trey Caviness, Gage Collins, Gianni Conti, Bradley Currie, Josh Dabbous, Tommy Day, Anthony Eskridge, Michael Feather, Truitt Folk, David Fryt, Gabe Fuhrman, Liam Gildea, Will Hecht, Alexander Herin, Ben Hill, Ben Jones, Dominic Keilty, Declan Kelly, Patrick Kelly, Jackson Lewis, Alex Lucchesi, Owen Martin III, Will McCullough, J.T. Novarese III, Joseph Oswald, Patrick Pietrangelo, Jake Ratliff, Jacob Riordan, Matthew Rubin III, Lance Sanderson, Daniel Smith, Gregory Sun, Austin Taylor, Lawson Tyrone, Justin Von Stein, Sean Wells, Hayden Whitley and Ryan Williams.
For more information about Christian Brothers High School, contact John Bordelon, director of Admission and Retention, 901-261- 4950 or jbordelon@cbhs.org. John Morris is director of Communications and Alumni Relations for Christian Brothers High School, 5900 Walnut Grove in East Memphis.