Mike Russell was Board President from 1983-1985.
Amazingly, in this same period he was managing and expanding his wildly successful American Cities Business Journal enterprise all over the country!
Mike helped DeLaSalle is so many ways.
He brokered the breakthrough with the Kansas City School District in 1984 so that DeLaSalle could get public school funding for serving District students.
Many people do not realize how extraordinary this was. It took another 15 years before the State of Missouri expanded this practice to a new set of schools called charter schools!
Mike died on February 22, 2009. He certainly made his mark on Kansas City, on DeLaSalle, and on me!
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