Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Parents' Club passed a resolution denouncing any such move" [towards desegregation]. The resolution was proposed at the club meeting, but it was thrown out by our principal, Father Stallworth, as against the constitution of the club. The whole issue at stake at this time was whether the Jesuits would continue to decide the policies at Jesuit High School or would surrender this right to the parents. The vast majority of the parents have approved our stand...
...Jesuit High School
Louisiana's white Roman Catholics were also up in arms against the idea of mixing with Negro Roman Catholics. At Jesuits Bend they sent away their new priest because he is a Negro (TIME, Oct. 24). At Erath some of them beat up a woman because they thought she was going to teach white and Negro children the catechism at the same time. Last week another rebellion erupted at New Orleans' high-ranking, 109-year-old Jesuit High School...
...morality and culture." The Rev. Claude J. Stallworth, principal of the school, promptly condemned the resolution as representative of "a movement which is as unAmerican, un-Catholic and un-Christian as Nazism, Fascism, Ku Klux Klanism or Communism." And besides, he said, he knew of no plans to integrate Jesuit High...
...Bill around to see the U.S.F. Dons' coach, Phil Woolpert. Phil took one look at the happy-go-lucky string bean with the outsize hands, and saw just what he was looking for. In the fall of 1952, Bill Russell began to attend classes at U.S.F., a small Jesuit school (2,500 students), and to practice basketball in the pint-sized St. Ignatius High School gym, where the Dons work out for want of a floor of their...