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PRESTON HOLLOW ADVOCATE VOL.23 NO.12

PROFILE 8 Retired teachers inspire passion for art DINING 17 Yonkers: Behind the sauce FEATURES 6 23 newsworthy neighborhood things in 2023 12 Akash Munshi’s green thumb 18 The Gift Guide 22 Lamplighter student gives back 24 Behind the pink door 28 Dallas’ fluoride debate

Sanlyn Kent’s art studio is a creative haven.

Read more on page 8.

Photography by Lauren Allen.

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23 THINGS IN 2023 Compiled by SIMARAN SIRA

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Anthony Jermaine Lewis was convicted guilty of murdering Leslie Squair Baker, who was shot outside of her house in May 2020.

Mayor Eric Johnson changed political parties and Dallas County Democrats called for his resignation.

A man sent DPD on a police chase through Love Field Airport and was charged with three counts of aggravated assault.

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Kendall Jenner’s tequila brand launched new cocktails at Mesero locations.

Inwood and Willow Starbucks workers joined thousands of other Starbucks employees in unionizing.

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Dallas was named a top diner destination

by RestaurantClicks.com.

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Preston Hollow was one of the top searched neighborhoods on Zillow.

11 12 13 14 7 8 Preston Hollow Village welcomed fitness studio BODY20.

The Fenty Beauty pop-up stopped by the Galleria.

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An SUV crashed into Tangerine Salon in Preston Hollow Village.

Ursuline Academy of Dallas celebrated its 150 year anniversary.

15 16 Dallas police started requiring online reporting for nonemergency crimes.

A student was injured during a shooting outside of Thomas Jefferson High School.

Gucci expanded at NorthPark Center.

Dallas Pets Alive partnered with CUDDLY for “Dallas Pets Are Family Day.”

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Crumbl Cookies opened a location at Village of Preston Hollow.

Dallas police were injured during a shooting investigation near Love Field.

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The Mavericks added three new players to its roster.

Dallas Police searched for the hit-and-run driver who killed a 7-year-old child.

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Your journey to

Preston Hollow neighbor and billionaire Kelcy Warren made the largest donation to the University of Texas at Arlington in history.

A new study found Dallas Cowboys fans, though sad, are the nation’s sexiest.

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Dallas ISD hosted a starstudded gala.

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KENT N KABOODLE Two former teachers spend retirement connecting kids with art Story by EMMA RUBY | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN

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“We find kids coming into first grade that can barely cut with scissors … in school, because of the emphasis on testing, the kids miss out on those things,” Green says. “Hopefully that changes with us.”

rom the rainbow-painted cabinets to the clusters of children’s artwork scattered throughout the room, the headquarters of Kent & Kaboodle, an art camp, is a quintessential art classroom.

For 46 years, Mary Ellen Green and Sanlyn Kent taught kindergarten, first grade and art in Dallas ISD. But it’s from the comfort of Kent’s Preston Hollow home where the now-retired duo teach art.

The pair met when they were 12 years old. Green moved to Dallas and her mom started the Girl Scout troop Kent joined before starting their teaching careers in Dallas ISD. Growing up with Pennsylvania Dutch grandparents, Kent’s family prioritized the practical. After graduating high school, her mother told Kent that she could either be a secretary, a nurse or a teacher.

“During the 50s and 60s, women’s opportunities to be professional were very limited,” Kent says. “If it hadn’t been for teachers, I would’ve had some really stupid job.”

Years later, they separated to go to different colleges before starting their careers at Dallas ISD. “The second year I was [teaching at Withers] I was sitting in the library, doing the orientation stuff, and in walks Sanlyn,” Green says.

From that moment on, the pair has been inseparable.

While teaching at DeGolyer Elementary School, teachers were required to contribute to an auction hosted by the Dad’s club to raise money for school dances. Green and Kent decided to team up and auction off an art camp.

And they continued to do so every year until they retired in 2011.

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During the Christmas sessions, students spend several days forming clay nativity or angel figurines which Kent fires in a kiln in her backyard. Once completed, the children are able to paint them and take them home.

changing academic standards and increased reliance on standardized testing effectively changed the job.

But they see their continued camps as the opportunity to continue teaching, and to provide an intensive art experience that most kids aren’t able to get in school.

“When you’re in public school, you only have little tiny bits of time with the kids. And sometimes it’s a week apart, sometimes it’s two weeks apart, and you spend most of your time reminding them what it was you were working on two weeks ago,” Kent says. “I can accomplish a year’s worth of progress in one week of 20 hours.”

The camp sessions focus on “everything,” whether it’s culturally oriented or a deep dive into the work of one artist. Camps and classes have included painting, clay, drawing, weaving — “everything imaginable.”

During the summer, the classes follow a new theme each week with themes like Greek mythology, ancient Egypt, Van Gogh and modern art. One week focused on David Bates, a local artist known for work done in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The summer camps serve children in grades first through seventh, with minicamps in November and December for Christmas-themed classes creating nativity scenes, angels or Christmas villages.

One mother of four sons has enrolled the boys in Christmas camp for several years in a row, encouraging them to make clay figure angel choirs to pass out as gifts to the family. They also add on to the family’s clay Nativity scene each year, and have “made it to the wise men.”

Kent teaches the classes, while Green is the “organizer,” Kent says.

“Without her we wouldn’t be here.”

Kent also volunteers with the Dallas Museum of Art giving tours.

“The DMA is an encyclopedic museum, which means we’ve got just about every culture in the world,” Kent says. “I love to compare the different cultures, talking about how some things never change.”

After almost seven decades of friendship, the loss of their husbands and retiring from their semicentennial careers, the pair continue to feel they are making a positive difference in their students’ lives.

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And they’re doing it all alongside their best friend.

“It’s kind of funny, because we’ve known each other for so long,” Green says. “When we irritate each other real good, it’s like sisters arguing.”

Those interested in taking classes or signing their children up for summer camp can check out the Facebook page, Kent N Kaboodle for more information on registration. Summer camps cost $200 for the week. Holiday classes cost $100.

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Former leader of Northaven Trail Crew and St. Mark’s alum Akash Munshi talks prairie lands Interview by KELSEY SHOEMAKER

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kash Munshi founded the gardening club at St. Mark’s School of Texas alongside his mentor Randy Johnson before launching the Northaven Trail Crew. Leading the club for two years, Munshi initially focused on planting produce for donations, but shifted his focus to restoration efforts. He continues to advocate for native plants to the Dallas-Fort Worth area even though he is now miles away.

Now at Cornell University studying plant science, Munshi plans to introduce his new skills to the Dallas native plant scene and find ways to restore Blackland Prairie sites, an area of endangered grassland found in Texas that now occupies less than 1% of the state.

HOW DID YOU GET INVOLVED IN PLANT SCIENCE IN THE FIRST PLACE? I started my own club at St. Mark’s and I had already

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Akash Munshi on the Northaven Trail. Photography courtesy of Northaven Trail Crew.

worked with Randy, who was the perfect person to introduce me to native plants because he’s an expert in the area. Once I told him I wanted to do a pollinator garden, he got involved and started to help me and spurred my fascination. He showed me how to propagate plants, and that became another interest of mine. Over the years, I probably grew 8,000 plants for the projects on the Northaven Trail.

HOW DID YOU FIND NORTHAVEN TRAIL AND WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH IT? In the summer of my sophomore year, I reached out to them wanting to do a community garden. I hadn’t gotten into native plants and we had this idea to do a community garden on the Northaven Trail, which would still be a good idea, but the only problem was

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that we didn’t have a reliable source of irrigation.

So then I came back to them with the idea to do a pollinator garden. Friends of Northaven Trail has always wanted to do Blackland Prairie restoration. I knew about the Trinity River Crew and what they had done, and I wanted to implement a similar concept.

WHAT DO YOU THINK IT IS ABOUT BOTANY AND GARDENING THAT DRAWS YOU TO IT SO MUCH? What spurred me is how beautiful it is. People don’t realize how much beauty there is in native plants.

It’s just the thirst to find them. Then when you’re propagating plants and you finally grow a plant and see flowers for the first time, it’s amazing. I really want to save everything, but it’s not possible, which is sad for Texas, in general, because we’re just destroying all this prairie land.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS THE BIGGEST THING THAT YOU’VE LEARNED? It made me more patient because some species are so ridic ulously diffic ult. Slightly too much water will kill them, slightly too dry would also kill them

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and they take forever to grow. I’ve learned refining methods and learned to problem solve. I’m constantly changing how I propagate because there’s always better solutions. My favorite thing is when you finally plant those species and see the insects that return. I remember with the pollinator garden the year after we put all the species in we had t h e m o n a rch m i g rat i o n . D u r i n g t h at p e r i o d there were maybe 150 monarchs in the garden.

And then also seeing the native bumblebees, hummingbirds and dragonf lies return to the Blackland site was amazing.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO SOMEONE WHO HAS LIMITED KNOWLEDGE BUT WANTS TO GET INVOLVED? First, go and seek out people who have done this be fore. Anybody can go to the Blackland Prairie Chapter of the Native Prairies Association of Texas meetings and learn about it. A lot of these areas offer a ton of volunteer events.

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nheriting an established restaurant, its regular customers, menu and personality — how do you make it your own without losing the history?

It is as difficult as it sounds, something Matt Pennock came to realize in July 2022 when he took over Yonkers Pizza Co. “It’s been an uphill battle, you’re starting off with what someone has already built, as opposed to doing it yourself which is what I’m used to,” Pennock says.

Pennock has been around restaurants most of his life in addition to stints in commercial real estate. But despite his hospitality background and his time working with the previous owner of Yonkers, he needed help when it came time to take the reins.

He found that help in the restaurant’s existing staff.

“I’ve been very lucky; we’ve had a very good staff that made the transition easier,” Pennock said.

While keeping many of the Yonkers classics, Pennock set out to diversify the menu. He added sautées, wings, calzones, strombolis, chicken parm subs and a new house-made pizza sauce to the restaurant’s offerings.

Long-time fans of Yonkers will still feel at home, he says.

“We want to continue the legacy of the brand and not just slap our own name on it and change everything completely,” Pennock says.

Yonkers pizzas are baked in true Empire

State-fashion — 550 degrees in a brick oven.

But the sauce isn’t quite what one would expect.

“Our pizza is what’s called an upside-down pizza,” Pennock says. “It’s cheese on bottom and sauce on top, and with the sauce that we have it really boosts that flavor.”

The menu offers high-end toppings such as truffle oil and prosciutto. There is even a nod to a Dallas staple: sausage from Jimmy’s Food Store. “(Jimmy’s) is not cheap by any means, but it’s hands-down the best sausage in Dallas,” Pennock says. “Pizza is one of the easiest things to tell where they’ve skimped on a product.”

The store’s proximity to office buildings and a lunch special offering two slices and a drink for $7 have cemented Yonkers as a lunchtime favorite.

Pennock says a second Yonkers location may be in the business’ future, but proximity is key in that decision.

“I’d like to do it to where it’s still close enough to where I can keep my hands on it,” he says.

The restaurant attracts a good number of New Yorkers, and what city knows pizza better?

Recent menu additions aside, an authentic slice will always be the bedrock of Yonkers.

“It’s always a competition to see how close we can get,” Pennock says. “Nine times out of 10 we get told that that’s the closest thing to true, New York-style pizza you can get in Dallas.”

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THE GIFT GUIDE A GUIDE TO GIVING THE GOOD STUFF Compiled by Kelsey Shoemaker

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It’s the season of giving and what better place to start than in Preston Hollow. Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice or just in the mood to be festive, Preston Hollow offers a plethora of locally-owned businesses that boast style, art, books and more. With chic fashion for trendsetters, necessities for hobby enthusiasts and home decor for the stylist, Preston Hollow brings everything together in a bow for everyone on your list.

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L E M O N A DE S TA N D S T O M A R AT H O N R AC E S

Lamplighter student gives back to Scottish Rite Story by ALYSSA HIGH Photography by VICTORIA GOMEZ

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Vivi’s lemonade stand, Sips for Hips, raised $500, which coupled with family donations was enough to purchase two chairs for Scottish Rite for Children’s hip dysplasia patients.

P O P CO R N A N D GU M BA L LS. That is the smell that 10-year-old Vivi Sorrow remembers from her time at Scottish Rite for Children. Vivi was born with hip dysplasia, a condition that required extensive hospital time until age 2.

Her mom, Cinco, remembers the first few years of her daughter’s life as a time of learning, fear and growing hope as treatment went on.

Developmental dysplasia of the hip occurs in about 1 in every 100 infants, according to Scottish Rite. Hip dysplasia refers to the abnormal relationship between the ball and socket of the hip joint or an abnormal shape of the socket or the ball.

During treatment, Vivi went through braces, traction and surgery on her hip followed by full and partial body casts. Her last surgery and cast finished right before her second birthday. Now, Vivi returns to the hospital every six to 12 months for checkups with many of the same doctors and nurses that started working on her case almost 10 years ago.

Vivi is a high-spirited girl. After years of hospital visits she can do all of the things a healthy 10-year-old can do with no restrictions.

She loves to climb trees, compete with her swim team and chase around her Siamese cat, Katy Purry.

And that, Vivi says, is what makes the hospital a “miracle workshop.”

One thing about Scottish Rite that stuck out to Cinco was that if families couldn’t pay for their child’s care, the hospital covered it. But the care itself wasn’t the only cost. With Vivi’s casts, for example, she couldn’t fit in regular seats. Cinco had to order specialty chairs shipped in from another state. Vivi had to be seated for most of the day, and the chairs were essential.

“The chair is where she would sit, eat, play, do activities,” Cinco says. “We don’t know what we would have done without these chairs.”

The Sorrows donated Vivi’s old ones when she no longer needed them, but a chair that a toddler spends every waking moment in doesn’t last forever. After a few uses from other patients, the donated chairs were no longer usable. And new ones came with a hefty price tag.

Vivi and Cinco wanted to give back and make sure other families had access to new chairs, so the duo teamed up and got to work.

Vivi started a lemonade stand on their Lake Highlands street that she called Sips for Hips and the Sorrows met with a local manufacturer, Mecca Designs, to brainstorm features to add to new chairs.

Vivi has held several lemonade stands over the last few years, raising around $500. The designs include several must-haves, according to Vivi.

“They have cup holders,” she says, which are perfect for drinks or “lots of goldfish.” They also have handles and a tray with a chalkboard.

Vivi didn’t stop giving back there.

This year, Vivi was selected as one of Scottish Rite’s Junior Race Directors. The directors act as ambassadors for the hospital at fundraising races like the BMW Marathon Festival. At each race, Vivi and her fellow Junior Race Director, King, talk about what they love about Scottish Rite, take turns blowing the air horn to start the race, cheer on the runners at the finish line and put medals around finisher’s necks.

You can spot Vivi at the marathon, held the weekend of Dec. 8-10. The 10K, 5K, 5K team, 5K walk and 100 yard dash are on Saturday, and the full, half and ultra marathons are on Sunday.

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PAINT THE TOWN PINK

Avara boasts size accessibility, with clothes running from prestonhollow.advocatemag.com DECEMBER 2023 XXS to XXL.

Avara is a multi-million dollar company that started with owner Emily Wickard leaving corporate America Story by KELSEY SHOEMAKER Photography by SHELBY TAUBER

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Avara has worked with influencers to expand its reach and is now popular from Texas to the Southeast to Tennessee.

T H E B R I G H T P I N K D O O R O N L OV E R S L A N E I S H A R D TO I G N O R E .

It’s the homebase for Avara, a fashion boutique based in Preston Hollow that has become one of the leading online retailers in the country, according to Inc.’s list of the 5,000 Fastest Growing Companies in 2022 and 2023.

The upbeat fashion found inside fuses bold prints with colorful pieces and is an introduction to the owner, Emily Wickard. She is the confident businesswoman who heads Avara and describes the brand as being accessible and “compliment worthy.”

Before Avara, Wickard worked in corporate financing for 25 years, eventually becoming vice president of Flowserve Corporation.

“From the outside, you think you would look at me and say, ‘Oh, wow, she has it all together, she has this big corporate job and this beautiful family and home,’” Wickard says. “On the inside, I was a mess.”

Part of it was not being fully involved in her two toddler’s lives. She also struggled with addiction before she left the company.

When the company went under and Wickard was given a

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severance package, she had the opportunity to take a step back and ask herself what she wanted to do with her life.

“I always loved fashion; I’d always receive compliments on my clothing,” Wickard says. “And I saw other women starting businesses. And I said, ‘They can do it. Why can’t I?” Like most beginnings, it started with a Google search.

With her years of experience of being a leader in a billion-dollar company under her belt, she had mastered what was needed for a business to work. Her style and ability to make a niche in the market helped with the success.

The name Avara is a tribute to her daughter Ava, an idea that her husband came up with, he still teasingly reminds her. Ava approves of the brand and she’s seen a few of her teachers wear the clothing.

“She’s always had a real interest in coming to the business with me, which is awesome that I get to share this with my daughter,” Wickard says.

The brand is specifically for women in their 30s to mid40s who need a fashion refresh. Her customers are people who resemble women like Wickard when she first started the business, someone who enjoys fashion but is too busy with work to spend the time shopping. One thing Avara

prides itself on is being a “one-stop shop” for people who need versatile pieces.

“I live 35 miles from Avara so I have to make the trek every once in (awhile) and I never leave empty-handed,” one customer said. “They are so happy and love their merchandise. It’s different and upscale.”

Before Avara was a store, Wickard would post in Facebook groups about products she had and then list any pop-ups she would be at. Around early 2018, people came to her house (that had a broken door instead of the iconic pink one) and tried the products on in her bathroom.

Her dining room table was dedicated to filling orders late at night.

“I think as a mom you often feel after you have kids, you lose your sense of style,” Wickard says. “And so for me, it was like, ‘Hey, ladies, we could still look cute and feel confident and a part of something without spending $300 on a dress.”

One by one, she was gaining more customers and followers of her business.

“If you had told me five years ago … I would have this booming online business [with] customers all over the country, and we think we have over 130,000 customers …

I would have said you are insane,” Wickard says.

In 2020, people stopped coming to the house as often because of the pandemic, but Wickard decided to pivot.

She decided to add loungewear into her collection and the online shopping experience grew tenfold.

“I didn’t want to take my foot off the gas,” she says.

During the pandemic, customers would still share themselves receiving compliments. One customer shared she received compliments on her top in a Zoom meeting.

Another expressed they hadn’t felt this good about themselves in awhile. “ You could just tell how good she felt about herself,” Wickard says. “I don’t believe you have to spend hundreds of dollars to look and feel confident.”

Once restrictions were lifted, the Lovers Lane shop opened. And exactly five years later, Avara is named one of the fastest e-commerce retailers in the country, valued at $25 million in revenue.

“I would encourage any women, 40s, 45s, 50s, you could still do it,” Wickard says. “You can still figure out what you really, really love and give it a go. And don’t stop. Never stop. Just keep going one day at a time.”

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TO F LUO R I D E O R N OT ?

Opponents present to city council after calls to ‘ hear both sides’ Story by EMMA RUBY

FLUORIDE HAS BEEN IN DALLAS’ WATER SINCE 1966, following the trend of most U.S. cities who add the mineral to water sources to help fight tooth decay in the population.

Opponents of fluoride presented to the city’s Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee Nov. 7, after an October presentation on the benefits of the mineral left city council members seeking “both sides” of the fluoridation debate.

But following November’s presentation titled Fluoridation: Unnecessary, Unproven, and Unsafe!, presenters were chastised by city council members for “cherry picking” data that opposes fluoride.

The presentation was given by two doctors and a professor — from Fort Worth, Austin and Canada, respectively — and warned of a negative impact to children’s learning and development as linked to high levels of ingested fluoride, and unsupported evidence that fluoride prevents tooth decay.

But in the Oct. 16 committee meeting, county health officials addressed both claims, stating their inaccuracies.

“I can tell you there is a lot of misinformation, a lot of scare tactics,” said Dr. Philip Huang, Director of Dallas County Health and Human Services.

One study referenced in November’s meeting sites a number of boys whose low IQ levels were linked to a high volume of fluoride found in their mother’s urine. On Oct. 16, Dr. Mary Swift of the Texas Dental Association referenced this study, and said there were “many problems” with how it was conducted.

While there were a few participants who had extreme levels of fluoride exposure — significantly higher than the amount added to the city’s water — the study found “non-significant” impacts of fluoride on IQ when the outlier patients were removed, Swift said.

The latest meeting’s presenters did not include limitations of the study, or of any other referenced study when addressing the city council.

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“Coming before the governing body of the ninth largest city in America and not footnoting these things is so disappointing,” City council member Gay Donnell Willis said. “You don’t cherry-pick things, you look at results and conclusions … You didn’t even have a footnote that a middle school presentation would have.”

Willis ended her statement by saying she would not move to change to the current recommendation of county health officials to add fluoride in the city water.

Dr. Griffin Cole, who represents the alternative dental treatment group International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, said the city council did not give opponents of fluoride “enough time” to include footnotes in the presentation.

City council member Adam Bazaldua, who chairs the committee, said “more transparent context” than what was provided to the council would have been appropriate.

“If we do sifting of our own and find context that wasn’t provided, intent is questioned,” Bazaldua said.

Bazaldua was one of the original voices calling for a presentation from opponents to fluoride following the Oct. 16 meeting, when he said he had questions “that (he’d) like to hear answered from an unbiased standpoint.” The remark prompted Huang to say he was representing the county “not lobbying” for fluoride.

“This was brought to us in the ’50s, are we still using 1950s dental procedures?” City council member Paula Blackmon said in the Oct. 16 meeting. “I think it’s fair for this council to ask is this practice we had in 1950 still a fair practice?”

Huang assured Blackmon the most recent recommendation for the volume of fluoride that should be added to drinking water was made in 2015, and research on the mineral is ongoing.

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When Cistercian Preparatory School was in our neighborhood

F ROM P R ESTON ROA D TO P R ESTON C E N T E R Story by RENEE UMSTED

Story by RENEE UMSTED

Neighbors know Preston Hollow as the site of Catholic schools such as Ursuline Academy, Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, St. Rita’s and more.

But decades ago, another school called our neighborhood home: Cistercian Preparator y School.

The all-boys school is now located in Irving, but it first started educating 47 boys at a campus on Walnut Hill Lane in 1962. It remained in our neighborhood until 1965, when it moved to Irving.

According to Jack Drake, the author of “Preston Hollow: A Brief History,” the students liked having recess in the trees and near Bachman Creek.

Before Cistercian, the home was the site of Ursuline’s Merici High School.

Who was Lt. William Preston?

That’s been the question (excuse the rhyme) since 1960, when Frank X. Tolbert began researching our neighborhood’s namesake. During his tenure at The Dallas Morning News, Tolbert published two columns about the enigmatic figure. Both were necessarily brief – there’s very little evidence of the man’s existence.

Tolbert wasn’t the first person stumped by Preston. Dr. Graham Landrum hoped to find biographical information for his book on Grayson County, where the lieutenant apparently made an impact.

He came up dry. Historian H. E. Walker was similarly unlucky, locating nothing in the State Archives.

Yet, “according to a few reliable histories” Preston Road, Preston Center, and Preston Hollow itself were all named after “the mysterious character.” In 1975, Tolbert felt comfortable asserting that Preston “was a Republic of Texas Army second lieutenant who was the first commanding officer of an 1840 fort on the Red River.” Unless some new information magically unearths, that may be all we ever know.

T H E SE TTLE RS ’ GHOSTS FROM THE ARCHIVES: NOVEMBER 2011

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The urban hum of bustling Preston Road leaves almost no trace of its earlier purpose as the main transportation route for Native Americans and, later, the pioneer settlers of North Texas.

It seems the pioneers may have hung around for a little while longer.

Claudette Brott leads the Dallas Historical Society’s annual ghost tour of famed locations such as the Adolphus Hotel Downtown.

During the 1960s, her late husband lived at Preston and Waggoner just south of Royal in a house said to be haunted by pioneer spirits.

At night, he’d peer out the window to see an entire family dressed in 1800s clothing sitting around a campfire. Other times, they would

be making their way north on Preston, covered wagon and all.

“They looked at him like he was the intruder. Then, they disappeared. I don’t doubt that that’s what it was. He was like me,” Brott says, meaning her husband was more sensitive toward seeing ghosts.

Brott says she sees them all the time, although she’s quick to point out her uncertainties about some stories passed down through the years, such as the pioneer spirits that have been reported in Far North Dallas between Belt Line and Spring Valley.

“People say they’ve seen the ghost of a man holding a lantern,” she says. “But I haven’t been able to validate that one.”

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Tim Schutze

Lori Sparks

214.763.1591 | susan.baldwin@alliebeth.com

214.926.0158 | alex.perry@alliebeth.com

214.507.6699 | tim.schutze@alliebeth.com

alliebethallman | 214.521.7355 | alliebeth.com

972.841.3838 | terri.cox@alliebeth.com

214.674.5518 | susan.bradley@alliebeth.com

214.680.6432 | lori.sparks@alliebeth.com