Not yet finished with his freshman year, Brendan Lyden’16 already shows the great qualities of a natural-born leader and a man for others. In an effort to help “The Hope for Ariang Foundation” build a school in southern Sudan, Lyden started a community service project called “The Bricks of Hope” to bring Jesuit into the effort.
Brendan learned about this...
At the end of January's mass, Coach Koch announced to the Jesuit community about the food drive occurring at Jesuit. Informing the community, the school's collaboration with Catholic Charities, the North Texas Food Bank, and other catholic schools.
Jesuit has been cooperating with other Catholic High Schools in the DFW area to give Catholic Charities their most beneficial charity drive....
Fedora. Glasses. Mustache. Clenched shoulders. A mythic character touts into the spotlight with precise steps, his sleeves rolled up beyond the elbow to display an appropriate amount of the gun show that is his arms.
And then, he speaks:
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Mr. Donahue squeaks out to the gathering audience in the Lecture Hall, pronouncing ‘gentlemen’ not so gently, “We will...
A solidarity to help others is an ideal found in the Jesuit profile. Every single student embodies this profile, and this can be seen through the noble actions the school takes part of. For example, this past March, both Jesuit College Prep and Ursuline Academy participated in the ‘Support Our Troops Drive’.
Primarily led by Ursuline Academy, the Support our...
How can we work to alleviate the pain of a child's broken heart? Over the past year, the Jesuit Community Service program has become directly tied to an extraordinary charitable organization: HeartGift. HeartGift provides lifesaving heart surgeries for children who live in nations where specialized medical treatment is either non-existent or scarce. These children suffer from a specific condition...
We all know that although Christmas can be “the most wonderful time of the year”, it can also be the most stressful – endless shopping in order to find the right gifts for loved ones. But for some families, Christmas can become more of a burden then a blessing. These underprivileged families, stricken with misfortune and poverty, often cannot...
School supplies are a luxury that we often take for granted at Jesuit. We never have to worry about being able to afford basic supplies, and we (hopefully) never will. On the other hand, some of our under partner schools are not as fortunate; many of the students attending lack basic school supplies.
Because of this, Jesuit's Key Club -...
For the 16th year in a row, Jesuit’s Medical Society has hosted a school wide medicine drive to gather various medications for it's annual mission trip to Guatemala in the Spring. The drive started the second week of January and will continue through Friday, February 6th.
Focusing mainly on the freshmen and sophomore classes, “a different medication is assigned to each...
