In their four years at Jesuit, members of the class of 2012 have seen their school change around them in both the aesthetics of major renovations and in additions to personnel, with teachers funneling in and out over the past four years. But in the hustle of recent school excitements, 2012’ers may have overlooked a major change to their...
Before heading off to the Jesuit vs. W.T. White football game this Friday stop by Jesuit’s cafeteria from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. to enjoy a spaghetti dinner sponsored by the Jesuit Rangerettes. The tickets for the meal cost only $5 dollars, and all the proceeds will go towards the Rangerettes’ trip with the football team to Dublin, Ireland next...
On Friday, September 9th, the freshmen were subjected to one of the hardest parts of high school: socializing and interacting with girls. They went into the Terry Center a little hesitant and tentative at first.
The past few years, the student council has been trying to step it up and make the dance more fun and enjoyable for the kids. They...
This year, Jesuit alum Jordan Spieth, ’11, attained one of the highest honors an amateur golfer can earn when he was selected to play in the Walker Cup. In Aberdeen, Scotland, Spieth represented the United States in the tournament, which pits the top ten male amateur golfers from the US against their counterparts from Great Britain and Ireland.
The Walker...
August: most Jesuit students dread the thought of it. As temperatures hit their peak, so does anxiety: the anxiety of alarms buzzing early in the morning, the anxiety of heavy backpacks slung on shoulders, the anxiety that summer is reaching its end and school is fast approaching. For a lot of Jesuit students, band camp is starting, two-a-days are...
In the first two weeks of summer, while most of the Jesuit community was watching its beloved Mavericks in the NBA Finals, 21 students and their three faculty chaperones geared up for something entirely different: a taste of Nicaragua. Students traded in their air-conditioners for small 6-inch fans, their beds for bunks, and their game-day burgers for rice and...
For three weeks this summer, a group of Jesuit seniors and juniors participated in our first ever Marine Biology course. Under the instruction of science teachers Mr. Ben Kirby and Dr. Todd Gruninger, students studied the basics of marine biology in the classroom at Jesuit for two weeks before traveling to the beautiful British Virgin Islands.
During the first week,...
This summer, at the urging of The Roundup moderators Dr. Michael Degen, Sheryl Row, and Fritz Asche, writer Payton Maher, ’13, and editor-in-chief Clark Durham, ’12, participated in writing camps this June. Maher took place in The Dallas Morning News’ yearly high school journalism camp, while Durham traveled to Austin for the University Interscholastic League’s summer writing workshop on...
