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Brief History of Jesuit High School at Oak Lawn and Blackburn Super Brief History In 1905 the second Bishop of Dallas, Bishop Edward Joseph Dunne, asked the Vincentian Fathers to establish a school in Dallas. Holy Trinity College opened at Oak Lawn and Blackburn in 1907 and closed in 1926. The building reopened in 1930 as St. Joseph Orphanage...

“A.M.D.G. On this day, the 30th day of August in the year of our Lord 1942, The Jesuit High School of Dallas, under the patronage of St. Aloysius was solemnly dedicated by the Most Reverend Bishop Joseph P. Lynch at 10:30 a.m. At 11:00 a.m. Mass coram Episcopo was celebrated by Very Reverend Father Provincial, Thomas...

History of Robotics Jesuit All Sparks 2848   2014 First World Championship 2016 Dallas FRC Regional 2017 3rd Place First World Championship   Jesuit’s Robotics Program began in 2008 - 2009 “sponsored by the JCPenny Afterschool Fund, PTC, and Burns Controls.  was successful in its inaugural FIRST Robotics Competition . . . at S. M. U.  The team won the Rookie All-Star Award for...

  The September 13, 1974 Roundup published what appears to be its first editorial policy. In 1973 -1974 the paper took “an in depth look at the success Jesuit has had in integration.”  It published three articles about “how minorities feel here.”  It also published poll results “on the student body’s racial attitudes” (November 8, 1974). The April 1, 1982 issue continued the...

  The 1954-1955 yearbook notes:  “The Camera Club is Jesuit’s newest organization.  The club was founded by Anthony Daboub, the Roundup’s staff photographer.  The purpose of the new club is to make available a multitude of pictures so that the Roundup might portray the varied activities at Jesuit more graphically.”  The club learns photography fundamentals “in films, lectures, and the...

The 1942 Mothers’ Club scrapbook includes a school newspaper article about the beginnings of the Radio Club which states, “The initial lecture of a series of experiments and lectures designed to equip seniors and all members of the student body who have reached their eighteenth birthday with the fundamentals of radio and other standard army communications was given ....

    According to the 1975 Jesuit Today, “Fr. Kitten initiated Jesuit’s film program in the spring semester of 1971 with a class of six students.” In the Second Annual Dallas/Ft. Worth Information Film Producers Association Student Film Competition, “Steve Cook, was presented the ‘Sandy’ award for the best edited film. . . . was the only high school entry...

WJHS-TV, a closed circuit system, began in 1963 with the opening of the Inwood Rd. campus. A Prospectus for the senior English TV course explains the expectations for classroom appearance, discussion protocol, assignments, and more. In September 1964 Fr. Robert Tynan, S.J. corresponded with Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. concerning problems with the system. He wrote that the system had...

  The October 8, 1966, The Texas Catholic editorializes that “the first edition of The Roundup issued Nov. 24, 1942, can hardly be called ‘memorable.’ Devoted mainly to gossip and descriptions of various newly formed organizations, the whole affair would be considered a monstrous failure if published today by the present staff. But for the first attempt it was extremely well...