Help to create a NEW book about La Salle Military Academy
with classmate/author, Dr. Peter Dans ‘53
This is the perfect time for us to immortalize the “story” of La SalleMilitaryAcademy in a dedicated book. We are a strong network of alumni getting tighter because we realize there will be no more La SalleMilitaryAcademy graduates! This writing will be a collaborative effort between the LSMA Alumni Association and Peter Dans. We need alums to contribute anecdotes and recollections of the internal atmosphere of the decades beginning in 1940's through to La Salle’s closing in 2001 and especially the changes after the Vietnam War.
Dr. Peter E. Dans graduated from La SalleMilitaryAcademy in 1953, from ManhattanCollege in 1957 and after receiving a medical degree from ColumbiaUniversity, had interned at JohnsHopkinsHospital. Peter Is the author of more than 100 scientific articles and has published several books including – “Life on the Lower East Side (1937-50)” - a photography book memoir coauthored with photographer Rebecca Lepkoff. We look forward to working with Peter! Below is a questionnaire for any classmate who wishes to participate.It is also posted on our website.All classmates are invited and are encouraged to help us in this project.
Please answer the following questions and mail or Email your responses to the addresses below.
Why did you go to LSMA? Are you happy you did? If so, why? If not, why not?
What did you like best about LSMA?
What was the most important life lesson you learned there?
What were the funniest or oddest nicknames for classmates, brothers, and the military?
What are your funniest memories from LSMA?
Who was the teacher who inspired you most either then or when you realized it later?
What was the most memorable event or the best thing that happened to you at LSMA?
What were your favorite subjects?
Briefly tell us what you consider your three best accomplishments in life and if any were influenced by LSMA?
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to answer this questionnaire. If any of your answers are used in this book, you will be contacted to approve their use. As well, we will try to send out a summary of responses to the respondents. Please let us know if we can contact you to flesh out any of your responses Please send email to Peter E Dans '53 Or mail to: The La Salle Book Attention: Peter E. Dans 11 Hickory Hill Road Cockeysville, MD 21030 Good luck! The LSMA Alumni Association
Click on WORD icon at right to open and print list of questions . You can email, mail or fax responses when you're done.
" I’d like to thank all those who have answered the questionnaire about their reflections about LSMA. I am still collecting information from alumni, so keep them coming. I am happy to say that Brother Thomas P. Casey at the De La Salle School has received authorization from his provincial Brother Edmond to solicit remembrances from the Brothers who were at LSMA. Now that my latest book has been launched (see below), I am turning my attention to the LSMA book and a book about my wife who died in 2004 of breast cancer to be written with our four children. I am grateful to Marty Bevilacqua for all his support and encouragement..
After having made over a hundred contributions to the medical literature, I moved to part-time at Hopkins and then became semi-retired. This has allowed me to write a quarterly column as the Physician at the Movies for the medical honor society journal (probably what I’m best known for despite almost 50 years in medicine) and four books. They are: Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah! (2000) about how doctors have been portrayed in movies from the 30s through the 90’s, Perry’s Baltimore Adventure: A Birds-Eye View of Charm City (2003,2007), a children’s book about the return of the peregrine falcons to Baltimore in 1978; Life on the Lower East Side (1937-50) a photography book/memoir about growing up in a cold water flat in NYC coauthored with photographer Rebecca Lepkoff and historian Suzanne Wasserman (2006); and Christians in the Movies: A Century of Saints and Sinners about the portrayal of Christians and Christianity in films from 1905 through 2008 ( May 2009). These have given me the hope to bring these two ventures to successful conclusions, God willing!. All those who contribute to the effort will be acknowledged"
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