Blessed

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Blessed William Joseph Chaminade (1761-1850), Lea
dership And Schools
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What/Who Is A Leader?

• a coach?
• a conductor?
• a drill sergeant?
• an animal trainer?

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Some Comments on Leadership

• leaves behind in others the conviction and will
  to carry on
• provides image of future, communicates, empowers
  others to enact it
• by word/or personal example markedly influences
  others
• perseveres
• must stand alone
• provides sense of purpose, creates authentic
  relationships, generates hope, exhibits a bias
  toward action
• oriented by the task of doing adaptive work

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Does It Make Any Sense

• Does It Make Any Sense to Call Blessed William
  Joseph Chaminade A Leader?
• ? he did leave followers after him who had the
  conviction to carry on and spread across the
  globe
• ? no matter where we stand in regard to him or
  about him, without him we would not be here
  today

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Archbishop Moeller High SchoolCincinnati,
OHArchbishop Riordan High SchoolSan Francisco,
CACentral Catholic Marianist High SchoolSan
Antonio, TX
Schools in MEC Province of the United States
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Schools in MECProvince of the United
StatesChaminade College PreparatoryWest Hills,
CAandChaminade Middle SchoolChatsworth,
CAChaminade College Preparatory SchoolSt.
Louis, MOChaminade-Julienne High SchoolDayton,
OH
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Chaminade-Madonna College PreparatoryHollywood,
FLColegio San JoséPuerto Rico, PRMemphis
Catholic High School and Middle SchoolMemphis,
TN
Schools in MEC Province of the United States
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Msgr. Hackett Catholic Central High
SchoolKalamazoo, MINolan High SchoolFt.
Worth, TXNorth Catholic High SchoolPittsburgh,
PAPurcell Marian High SchoolCincinnati, OH
Schools in MEC Province of the United States
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St. Anthony Jr./Sr. High SchoolWailuku, HISt.
Laurence CollegeDublin, IRSt. John Vianney
High SchoolSt. Louis, MOSt. Louis
SchoolHonolulu, HIVilla Angela-St. Joseph High
SchoolCleveland, OH
Schools in MEC Province of the United States
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Completing the United StatesPicture

• 3 Universities
• Chaminade University
• St. Marys University
• University of Dayton
• Province of Meribah
• Chaminade High School
• Kellenberg Memorial High School

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Regions and SectorProvince of the United States

• Eastern Africa
• Kenya
• Kitale, Limuru, Mombasa, Nairobi
• Malawi
• Karonga
• Zambia
• Lusaka

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Regions and SectorProvince of the United States

• India
• Bangalore, Bahr, Binda, Ranchi, Singhpur
• Korea
• Mokpo, Incheon, Seoul
• Mexico
• Coatzacoalcos, Uxpanapa, Puebla, Querétaro

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Around the Rest of the World

• More than 92 schools, with thousands of
  students, teachers, and other personnel
• Europe Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
  Switzerland
• Africa Democracy of the Congo, Republic of the
  Ivory Coast, Republic of Congo, Togo, Tunisia
• Latin AmericaArgentina, Chile, Colombia,
  Ecuador, Peru
• Asia Japan

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A Short Course on Events In His Life A
Well-Known Story

• November 1771
• off to St. Charles, Royal Collège, Mussidan
• A Cluster of Events Begins His Jolt Into
  Leadership
• July 14, 1789 Storming of the Bastille
• July 12, 1790 Passage of the Civil Constitution
  of Clergy
• Jan 4, 1791 Administration of Constitutional
  Oath
• Autumn 1791 Leaves Mussidan for Bordeaux

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Defining Moment

• occasion cluster of events, especially
  underground ministry
• no turning back
• until Bordeaux little contact with laity
• there the laity is the church and his
  ministry depends upon them, especially women
• Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Lamourous
• shapes him becomes essential part of his story

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Another Circumstance Forced Exile
Sept 22, 1797 Chaminade leaves France for
Exile Saragossa and Our Lady of the Pillar
Shrine
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Vision
Such as I see you before my eyes, such I saw
you long before the foundation of the society.
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What Is A Vision?

• the overarching purpose, the big dream
• excites the imagination and challenges people
  to work for something they do not yet know how
  to do
• takes people to a new place
• molds meaning

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Chaminades Vision

• informed by his particular reading of his
  experience of God in Catholic tradition
• experiences himself as being chosen, as being
  called to be a founder of something new
• to participate in the re-christianization of
  France (reconstruction of society) through an
  alliance with Mary in her timeless mission of
  bringing forth her son, Jesus, into this world

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New Developments

• 20 Oct 1800 Napoleon allows exiled priests to
  return
• Nov 1800 Chaminade leaves for Bordeaux
• 8 Dec 1800 young laymen commit themselves to a
  small Christian Community
• Chaminade begins to share dream
• 28 March 1801 Granted title Missionary Apostolic

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How Does Chaminade

• hold the vision
• share it
• evolve strategies to implement it
• How does he lead?

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Pragmatist With A Vision

• takes advantage of opportunities of as they arise
  to implement vision
• signs of the time
• understood in terms of Providence
• discernment of the good God intends
• ever-present reason for hope
• requires adaptation and change
• new methods, new times
• wise reshaping of strategies
• consideration of cultural assumptions

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Enacting Leadership An Example

• Who does not see that since the revolution of
  1789 a new fulcrum must be found for the lever
  that moves the modern world?
• what are the opportunities in this new
  situation
• liberty, equality, fraternity
• consonant with the scripture
• popularity of clubs

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Enacting Leadership

• Not a great speaker
• Communicates the vision by
• -- who he is
• -- his personal relationships
• -- telling the story in a way that appealed to
  the imagination
• Attention to individuals
• focuses on what persons possessed

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Enacting Leadership

• Appreciates need for diversity
• -- composition of small Christian Communities
• -- mirrored in Society of Mary
• -- relative sense of equality
• Approaches things communally, collaboratively
• Communicates zeal for the vision/mission
• Reaches out and invites

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Enacting Leadership

• Method of multiplication
• Patience, Perseverance, Confidence in God
• -- with people, with groups, with what he saw
• not paralyzed by what he saw
• gospel convictions
• Modesty, Humility, Self-Abnegation
• Deep Sense of Conviction

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Years After His Return To FranceA New
Development, A New Opportunity

• 1816 Daughters of Mary Immaculate
• 1817 Society of Mary

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Turn Toward Schools

• From 1819 Chaminades expenditure of energy on
  schools continually grows
• 1845
• 4 secondary schools
• 32 primary schools
• 2 trade schools
• 1 normal school (teacher training)
• 6 novitiates

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Chaminades Retrospective

• Why He Entered Schools
• Apostolic Reasons
• Letter to Pope Gregory XVI
• (15 September 1838)

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Schools in Themselves Not The Point

• They were a strategy for implementing the vision
  and fit his style of leadership
• an excellent means for rechristianizing France
• the place where the battle was being fought
• a means of multiplying efforts and apostles
• models for imitation attraction
• a means of forming both mind and heart
• a means of reaching the mass of population

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The Point of Schools

• a means of reaching the mass of the population
• primary schools
• normal schools
• enduring institutions or communities society
  is created through such institutions, not simply
  the work of individuals
• a corporate means of engaging in apostolic
  activity

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The Point of Schools Today

• community setting
• ? for fostering individual and communal faith
• ? offering an opportunity for ministry from
  cradle to grave
• ? enabling the interaction of faith and culture
• ? providing a context for formation in and
  action for peace, justice, and service

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Chaminades School Education not Only
Instruction

• Instruction
• the development of skills and the transference
  of the knowledge of various disciplines
• Education
• the cultivation of habits of mind and heart, the
  integrated maturation of the potential of body
  and soul intellect, will, emotions, spirit
  all informed, animated by the Christian spirit

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Education

• ? takes place in the midst of instruction
• ? requires
• a certain kind of community, pedagogy,
  leadership, practices, and strategies
• a certain kind of person as teacher a
  ministry of presence

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Educational Intent

• a transformative intent directed toward the
  faculty, staff and administration, parents,
  alumni, and members of the wider community
• the major transformative intent directed toward
  the student

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Marianist Graduate

• exemplifies joy and courage in witnessing to the
  gospel
• forms communities of faith resonant with the
  vibrancy of early Christianity
• faithful to the spirit of Jesus Christ
• uses knowledge and competence to serve and
  transform society

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Marianist Graduate

• individual
• firmly rooted in a dynamic faith
• possessed of a well-rounded, liberal education
• engaged in life-long learning
• confident of oneself and appreciative of others
• permeated by a social sense and concern

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Marianist Graduate

• possessed of a religious/moral compass that
  orients life
• convinced of the necessity of community and
  collaboration
• committed to moving the modern world

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Leadership Of The Board

• Guardians
• Of The
• Mission

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THANK YOU