1940s

Well, you asked for it.  Against the better judgment of the good Jesuit fathers, I and my colleagues were in the first graduating class of Jesuit High School in Dallas, Texas.  The campus was what had originally been the property of either the diocese or the order that runs Notre Dame.  It was called “Dallas University” when I was...

I spent my first two high school years in St. Louis at Jesuit High School. My dad, working for the Rock Island Railroad, got transferred in 1945 to Dallas where we lived near Jesuit High on the other side of Turtle Creek. Jesuit took me in as a Junior, probably with some financial help from Jesuit Fr. Tynan and...