In the Traditions Courtyard after school, pre-freshmen Gabe Dupuy and Shane Lanson engage in an intense discussion of the tech-trending topic of iOS7, the new software update for iPhones.

Freshmen Andrew Keeler (left) and Ethan Healy finish folding the flag — appropriately and correctly, of course — to the applause of their MCJROTC classmates in Leadership 101, a course taught by MGySgt Johnny Piseno.

Several Blue Jays spend part of their lunch hour taking part in the Fall Foosball Tournament, hosted by the Foosball Club. Sophomores Connor Schexnayder and Tony Nguyen (left) battle it out at the foosball table against freshmen Joon Lee and Sam Schiff, while pre-freshman Thomas Sagona helps keep score. Teams consist of two players, and the games often attract a group of spectators. Tournament play continues through November when the last standing team will be named the tournament victor.

Junior Alex Daigle gets a few minutes during his lunch hour to practice for the Philelectic Society’s auditions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare. Auditions will be held in the auditorium at 5:30 p.m. on both Tuesday, September 17, and Wednesday, September 18. Get audition details.

These pre-freshmen football players practiced with the rest of the team on the Will Clark Field on Monday afternoon in preparation for their game against the Rummel Raiders this Thursday (September 19) at John Ryan Stadium. The six players — three quarterbacks and three wide receivers — practiced several plays designed to surprise, confuse, and frustrate their opponents’ defense. From left are Reed Huguet (QB), Alex Watermeier (QB), Blake Mire (WR), Christian McClure (WR), Harrison Robichaux (WR), and Michael Torry (QB). Who knows, four years from now, they might be leading the varsity Jays to a winning season.

As members of the Green Club, seniors Tommy Yun and Eric Hartupee empty recyclables into the pick-up container in the courtyard. The Green Club picks up recyclables from classrooms and offices weekly on a Thursday afternoons.

Members of the Blue Jay Band practice Wednesday afternoon on Will Clark Field in preparation for their “super” set at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Friday evening. The Band will play when the Blue Jay football team takes the field against St. Paul’s in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Prep Showcase.

The ear-splitting fire alarms suddenly erupted in the halls and offices throughout Jesuit on Tuesday morning, prompting the orderly evacuation of more than 1,400 Blue Jays, faculty, and staff. Routine as fire drills have become, they are always taken seriously. They are critical to ensuring the safety of everyone at Jesuit. Blue Jays empty the school quickly and quietly, their destination: Will Clark Field. Along the way, minds wander, imagination takes flight, as if these Blue Jays were actually slogging through waist-deep water on Banks Street, a steady rain pelting them through the gates of delirium.

When Mr. Julio Minsal-Ruiz, S.J. is looking for a little spiritual solitude with a view, he sometimes heads up to the Jesuit roof, where he could be found on Monday reading Magnificat Magazine. When this photo was taken at 7:22 p.m., the sun had disappeared beneath the horizon some 14 minutes earlier, but was still strong enough to illuminate downtown New Orleans, bathing the familiar skyline in a blueish hue. Mr. Minsal-Ruiz — a Jesuit scholastic who teaches theology (Morality and Vocations) to Blue Jays — was taking full advantage of the new deck, complete with expanded bench seating, that the school’s maintenance workers recently built… naturally, alongside the pool.

Members of the Board Games Club occupy a table in the Student Commons after school on Friday to engage in the relatively lost art of gamesmanship. The club, moderated by Dr. Cyril Lagnavec II, meets every other Friday in the Commons to, well, play board games. Not “bored” games, as a few cynics out there might be thinking, but challenging ones, such as “Betrayal at House on the Hill,” which requires concentration and strategy. Enjoying “a new twist on terror,” as advertised on the front of the box, are game enthusiasts (clockwise from Dr. Lagnavec) pre-freshman Matthew Richards, junior David Senentz, pre-freshman Christian Lacoste, and juniors Jared Ohle, Clayton Lococo, and Douglas Dillon.

Students who are studying the writings of C.S. Lewis in Mr. Jeremy Reuther’s theology class, met in St. Ignatius Hall on Thursday September 5, with Jesuit’s president Fr. Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J., who team-teaches the single-semester senior elective course with Mr. Reuther, who serves as Jesuit’s director of campus ministry. After spending the first couple of week’s reading “The Pilgrim’s Regress” – Lewis’s first published work of prose fiction – the group turned its attention to the author’s high fantasy novel – “The Magician’s Nephew.”

One of the joys of being president of Jesuit High School is meeting new Blue Jays. On any given morning, at lunch, and after school, Fr. Raymond Fitzgerald, S.J. can usually be found in the Traditions Courtyard, where in the shade of the oaks, he meets and greets Blue Jays coming and going. After the Mass of the Holy Spirit, students were dismissed for the Labor Day holiday weekend. These four pre-freshmen chatted with Father while waiting for their ride home. From left are Will Landrieu, Chris Freibert, Jacob Bordelon, and Brett Power.

This quintet of pre-freshmen in the Student Commons (from left) James Mason, Jeremy Poissenot, Ryan Guillot, Blair Loupe, and Evan Alphonso take a break from their homework to smile for the Wild Photographer Wednesday afternoon.

Creating their own stage, seniors Gui Kirsch on saxophone and Patrick Doell on trumpet practice a few tunes in Traditions Courtyard during lunchtime on Tuesday, September 3.

Mr. Obie Ortega gets a laugh from freshman Nolan Lambert in his Spanish II class in the last period of the day.

Pre-freshman Gregory Buisson enjoys the discussion of this year’s Big “J” Read novel, A Lesson before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines. Students participated in the Big “J” Read on Tuesday, August 27 to earn extra academic credit in English.