Surrounding the American Airlines Center, a variety of food trucks line up in the streets as adults and children dance to the music playing in the background at Victory Plaza. This was the scene on Sunday, November 1st for the annual Down Syndrome Guild of Dallas Buddy Walk.
The Buddy Walk is a festival consisting of activities and games as...
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 -...
Jesuit has lots of interesting service programs offered over the summer. One of the most prominent is the exchange and immersion trip to Mexico at the Instituto De Ciencias in Guadalajara. The Instituto De Ciencias is a fellow Jesuit school and Jesuit Dallas has has a close relationship with the school.
I got the chance to sit down and talk...
With the departure of Dr. Riemer, the Jesuit Dallas Community Service and Social Justice Office has employed help from former alumni James Luisi '09.
After graduating from Jesuit Dallas, Mr. Luisi attended the Loyola University of Chicago, one of many prestigious Jesuit Universities. After finishing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Luisi moved to the District of Columbia, where he volunteered for a year,...
Just across the border in a city named Guadalajara lies a Jesuit school much like our own. Instituto de Ciencias, as it is called there, welcomes around 3000 students each day, ranging from preschool to high school. This spring, for the fourth time, Dallas Jesuit received five high school students from this school for 7-weeks as part of the...
Mission Waco, the host organization of a poverty simulation in Waco, defines poverty as “the condition of having no money, goods, or support with NO power or access” and believes that poverty simulation creates compassion, compassion which “brings new insight and purpose to life which is to hunger and thirst for justice and righteousness.”
On the afternoon of Thursday, February...
Chili, cookies, and brownies laid out across the tables. Interact members stand over them, smiles on faces, preparing plates for the many AIDS victims at AIDS Services of Dallas (ASD). Eagerly accepting, the patients share their stories with Interact, stories of misfortune and sadness, emphasizing how ASD has saved their lives.
On October 20th, The Junior leadership and service organization “Interact”...
Charlie Boroczak '22, like most high schoolers, deals with the challenge of balancing all the activities in his life. The senior works hard to maintain his school grades, participate in the Senior-Freshman Big Brothers Program, plays on the varsity football and rugby teams, and manages to get a little time to hang with friends.
Oh, and run a non-profit for...
