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April 2013<\/p>\n

In 1942 Jesuits were unheard of in Dallas. My friends at Highland Park Junior High asked me why I was going to a \u2018Jews-u-it\u2019 school. We didn’t know you were Jewish!\u2019”<\/p>\n

Tuition was $100\/year. I was given a half scholarship but could only pay $50 that\u00a0freshman year. No problem.<\/p>\n

\"Tuition<\/a>
Tuition Bill 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our Principal, Fr. Mulhern, told us we could only have a basketball team on the condition that we sell 100 season tickets at $3.00 each by Nov. 1st.\u00a0 I sold one and bought one and we had the first Ranger Basketball team.<\/p>\n

Our first football games were played on a makeshift field behind the old school building with a goal post abutting the cyclone fence on Oak Lawn and some wooden fan stands three levels high.<\/p>\n

For baseball we had to scrape off part of the field to make the baseball infield.\u00a0 Extra points and home runs went over the fence onto Oak Lawn Ave.<\/p>\n

Then Mr. Mike Kammer, S.J. began the Philothespic Society. I was the first voted a member after the chartering meeting I missed.\u00a0 We put on Twelfth Night<\/i> and the most memorable moment for us teens was Harry Wren’s Toby kissing Roy LaRocca’s Maria.<\/p>\n

\"Twelfth<\/a>
Twelfth Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 2013 In 1942 Jesuits were unheard of in Dallas. My friends at Highland Park Junior High asked me why I was going to a \u2018Jews-u-it\u2019 school. We didn’t know you were Jewish!\u2019” Tuition was $100\/year. I was given a half scholarship but could only pay $50 that\u00a0freshman year. No problem. Our Principal, Fr. 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