Explorer Autumn 2007
Living A Dream by Michael P. Dominick ’03
What is it about La Salle College High School that keeps its alumni so active and involved year after year? Ask Jerry Hathaway ’72 and he’ll tell you. Jerry Hathaway grew up in a small house on D Street and Tabor Road in the Olney section of Philadelphia, St. Ambrose Parish. With four boys under the age of 13 and a daughter on the way, Mrs. Hathaway lost her husband at a young age and moved the family from Texas to Philadelphia in order to raise her children around her relatives that had settled here. Growing up in what was slowly becoming a dangerous neighborhood, Hathaway could have easily slipped between the cracks of the system and gotten lost among the over-populated working class city schools. But his mother simply wouldn’t allow it.