# @jesuitdallas on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-02-28T21:29:43.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jesuit Dallas (@jesuitdallas) — https://gondola.cc/jesuitdallas

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Do you know your Jesuit history?! 📚 🏫 
Location #1 (freshman level): Original Pillar from the Oak Lawn Campus. 🏛️
This stone is a cornerstone from the original Oak Lawn campus. During the demolition of the original campus, masonry pieces were sold to offset costs – many alums purchased pieces as mementos. Decades later the Class of 1963 brough the piece back home where it now sits as the base to our St. Ignatius statue in the Prayer Garden.
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Location #2 (sophomore level): Pegasus Sculpture 🐴
In 2002, as part of the Dallas Soars! citywide art project, a 30-foot sculpture was constructed at the back of the School by eight alums. Containing a giant fiberglass Pegasus, D. Tillery ‘83 engineered the horse to rotate 30 degrees and as a result fly with the wind – residing in what resembles Reunion Tower. The retired mascot can be seen on the belly of the Pegasus. Located outside of the Longwell Science Labs it now is near the temporary “front” entrance of the school, due to construction.
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Location #3 (junior level): Gym Cross ✝️
When the St. Rita campus was being constructed, a trunk from an old oak tree, planted by Jesuits, was saved in hopes of commemorating the once shared land. Alums Spencer ’11 and Dane ’10 Adamson volunteered to turn the piece of wood into the Jesuit Cross which now hangs in the gym with illuminating lights glowing from behind.
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Location #4 (senior level): Ticket from First Theater Performance: “Twelfth Night” 🎭
After being stored away for decades, our archives department decided to display the original ticket to Jesuit’s first school production of “Twelfth Night” in the lobby of the Melsheimer Family Theater. During our current construction, the lobby is also utilized as the math lab, allowing students being tutored a close-up view of our history.

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