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Background: Members of Latin's Reggae Club. Students don togas in celebration of Latin's centennial. when the demand is not met, manifest no consideration for the school's instructional process." In the 1983 Student/Faculty Handbook, the school included civility as "a major school expectation" for the first time, and consequences for uncivil behavior could include exclusion from the school. For most of the decade, enrollment remained around 875. Upon his arrival, Slater had been charged by the board of trustees to review the physical capacity of the school and consider whether enrollment numbers needed to be limited or even decreased or whether significant capital investments needed to be made. No such plans were developed during his tenure, but Slater and the board continually struggled with the state of the endowment. "While it is true that the school is in sound financial shape on a current basis and that it balances its budgets annually, it is also a fact that endowment is unacceptably small," Slater wrote in 1982. "The long-term success of the school will require a substantial increase in the school's endowment." Meanwhile, parents were displaying an ever greater willingness to roll up their sleeves in support of Latin. In 1984, parents organized the first Latin School Auction, raising $155,000 for the school. With Finders Keepers, Live & Learn and other efforts, they were providing significant revenue to the school through fundraising and volunteerism. In 1988, Latin School celebrated its centennial with great pomp and fanfare, including a parade through the Gold Coast. The school had again taken another giant step forward. Latin now had a rigorous academic program complemented by fully articulated athletics, arts, service and extracurricular programming. Moreover, students and faculty were embracing new challenges and levels of excellence. Even in the late '80s, however, Latin still defined itself as a neighborhood school. This would change in the next decade as newly appointed Headmaster Frank Hogan and the board of trustees embarked on ambitious plans to make Latin School of Chicago not only an outstanding neighborhood or city school, but one of the finest independent day schools in the country. n Latin's Auction in the early days. LATI N SCHOOL OF CHI CA GO 99