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La Lumiere's Annual Magazine

The 2021 Fall Magazine includes student creative work, a Year in Pictures highlighting life on campus, and updates from the school. In addition, the publication also features information on Commencement for the Class of 2021 and information about new staff and faculty at La Lumiere. The annual magazine is a great way to stay up-to-date with the happenings at La Lu.

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Four La Lumiere Juniors Named Rising Stars of Indiana

La Lumiere juniors Maisie Jenuwine, Dana Mulco, Sabina Patel, and Mia Risser were recently named Rising Stars of Indiana by the Indiana Association of School Principals (IASP). The Rising Stars of Indiana is designed to “honor high school juniors for their academic achievement.” This achievement is a sign of outstanding scholars in their junior year, which can increase visibility and scholarship opportunities in their future.

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Financial Aid Overview for the 2022-2023 Academic Year

Each academic year, La Lumiere provides financial assistance to over one-third of our students. Need-based financial aid is based on each family’s financial profile. Additionally, there are merit-based scholarships available to all La Lumiere students.

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La Lumiere Receives Donation from Michigan City Kia

Kia’s “Accelerate the Good” campaign arrived at La Lumiere School this year. Since 2019, Kia Motors America has been supporting America’s youth through various national campaigns. Since the fall of 2020, the “Accelerate the Good” campaign brought Kia’s charitable giving and positive messaging directly to the local communities that Kia dealerships serve.

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La Lumiere's Rain Garden Offers Insight into Ecoscaping

La Lumiere students walk along green infrastructure, the newly installed rain gardens in front of the Fine Arts Building and Main Office, every day. This new landscaping serves the school multiple ways: it mitigates water runoff, it adds additional native plant species to the Main Quad, and creates a new space to gain first-hand knowledge of the landscape and all that impacts it.

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La Lumiere's Fall Open House

La Lumiere will welcome prospective students and their families to our campus on October 9, 2021, for our Fall Open House. Community members will be on hand to showcase the La Lu experience. Whether you are a family of a prospective boarding or day student, the core of this event is the opportunity to meet members of our close-knit community and learn more about what it means to be a Laker.

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La Lu Palooza—An Unprecedented Night!

What an absolutely unbelievable evening La Lu Palooza was! Between an unprecedented 4:1 match in honor of the late Mary Lou Linnen, two dynamo event chairs in Britt Whitfield and Jacqueline Kronk, and a tent full of fearless revelers, Saturday turned out to be, by many measures, the biggest night in our school’s history

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La Lumiere's 54th Annual Commencement

On May 28, 2021, we celebrated our graduating seniors at La Lumiere’s 54th Commencement. In an unprecedented academic year, our graduates found that we were stronger and better when we faced challenges together. At the end of the prior academic year, the Prefect Board selected the phrase, “Together, We Will …” as this year’s school motto. With this mentality, our graduates were destined to seize the opportunity to be on-campus and learning, together.

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La Lumiere hosts first Fall Festival

On a stellar fall day, La Lumiere hosted the first annual Fall Festival down on Sullivan Field. The festival was an opportunity to come together as a community, celebrate the success of the semester, and showcase some Halloween costumes, too! The activities during the festival ranged from playing carnival games, riding a mechanical bull, racing on a blow-up obstacle course, and climbing a rock wall.

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La Lumiere's October Mass

La Lumiere students and faculty gathered to worship together under a canopy of autumn leaves in the Amphitheater. Fr. Pete McCormick, C.S.C., Holy Cross priest and Director of Campus Ministry at the University of Notre Dame, came out to La Lumiere’s campus to serve as the guest presider for the School’s Mass. The liturgy celebrated the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary.

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Judy’s Cressless Rivulet: In Memory of Rick Coppens ‘85

Judy’s Cressless Rivulet, located on the north side of the Lake Road, is an integral part of the fabric of the La Lumiere landscape, and one that needed a helping hand to restore it to its former glory. As part of our larger efforts to promote place-based learning at La Lumiere, a group of four students worked with Brian Tonino ’12 and Mrs. Judy Smith to take the first step in the restoration process over the course of the past two weekends.

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The La Lumiere Arboretum: Promoting Place-Based Learning at La Lumiere

La Lumiere has a unique set of climatological and topographical features, which greatly increase biodiversity on our 190-acre campus. “Due to the historic usage of the land at La Lumiere, there are many opportunities to observe ecological succession on campus. The dammed lake, the CCC pines, and the previously harvested oaks have each affected biodiversity in a myriad of ways,” Brett Balhoff, the Chair of the Science Department, said.

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