Gallant Fighting Sons: The Jesuits, Louisiana, and Their School in New Orleans
By Ron Drez ’58
$50 per copy

Still looking for Christmas gifts? Consider picking up a copy of Gallant Fighting Sons: The Jesuits, Louisiana, and Their School in New Orleans. Incorporating 167 photos and dozens of interviews into 444 pages of engaging text and notes, author Ron Drez ’58 presents a fascinating, colorful, and intimate history of New Orleans’s oldest Catholic boys’ high school and her students — Jesuit High School and her “gallant fighting sons.” The book, which took years to research, write, edit, and publish, takes us from the first steps of the Jesuits on North American soil to their founding of a school for young men in downtown New Orleans to the Jesuit High School of today at the corner of Carrollton and Banks.

Books will be sold at the Christmas Boutique on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 8 a.m. to noon.