Tag: 1940s

“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...

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...