We Remember.. LEW STUECK
FACULTY UPDATE
On October 7th, 2011, as part of the Decade of the ‘90s Alumni Reunion Weekend, the Alumni Association honored Coach Lew Stueck and the ‘91 Football Team, La Salle’s 1st football team. Pictured left to right, Sean Regan ’92, Ricardo Perez ’93, Coach Stueck, Raoul Bustamante ’93, Christian Fernandez ’93
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ew Stueck passed away on February 28, 2016. Stueck was La Salle’s first varsity football coach and helped establish the Lancer Football Program in 1991. He continued to coach and teach at the School until 2000. A Loyola High School and UCLA football standout, Coach Stueck started coaching at Loyola at 23, installing his famed single wing attack, which culminated in Loyola’s first CIF SS AAAA Championship in 1962 with a 12-0 record.
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Stueck went on to coach at UCLA from 1967 to 1969 and the University of Wisconsin from 1970 to 1976. After working in the insurance industry, he returned to coaching to start La Salle’s football program where he reintroduced the single wing and later the power I formation. Prior to retiring, Lew worked at Verbum Dei High School as a teacher and Athletic Director. Stueck, 80, had been battling cancer and suffered an apparent heart attack.
HAROLD FRANK
arold “Hal” Frank (formerly known as Brother Harold) recently passed away after a long bout with congestive heart failure and other complications. Frank was born in Stockton on October 29, 1936. He entered the Christian Brothers Novitiate in January of 1956. Now Brother Thomas Harold, he was assigned to La Salle in June of 1961. Brother Harold was an engaging teacher and a master of staging musical
operations. A celebrated Glee Club director and religion teacher, he established the renowned Spring Showcase musicals at La Salle. He became vice principal in 1966 and principal in 1968. He left La Salle and withdrew from vows in February of 1970. After decades of service to the health needs of the people in San Diego he died peacefully in his sleep on Saturday, January 16, 2016, in La Jolla.