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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...

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...