Volunteers serve De La Salle North Catholic as associate teachers and tutors, through Lasallian Youth Ministry, outreach and other social action programs, and assisting in the Corporate Internship Program. Samantha Wildhaber serves on the Corporate Internship Program staff and advises the student government program. Joe Whearty serves on the campus ministry staff. Both are first year volunteers.
De La Salle North Catholic is a co-educational Lasallian Cristo Rey High School in North Portland, Oregon, and the first Catholic High School in the area since North Catholic High burned in 1970. The school serves only low income students, of whom over 60% qualify for free and reduced lunch. It provides a unique Corporate Internship Program, giving all its students employment opportunities while they receive a college preparatory high school experience. This work program funds approximately 70% of the tuition for the student. Each week, students work in the internship program one day and complete their schooling during the other four extended days.
Each year approximately 70 co-ed freshmen arrive from local neighborhoods mostly from low to lower middle class families in North and Northeast Portland. The school is racially diverse and about 50 percent of the students are not Catholic. 2005 marked the school’s first graduating class.
