As you are aware, we need to shed some Dean Highland inventory this summer, so we’re offering our world-famous t-shirts at an awesome price: $15/shirt. In honor of Juneteenth and Father’s Day, if you buy a medium t-shirt we’ll throw in a 2nd medium for free. We can give you the same offer for small sizes, too, while supplies last!
Check out how amazing these t-shirts make you look:
Hello! I’m Hilary, and I’ll be moving to Waco in early August to work at Baylor as a full-time librarian and am looking for a rental. My budget is $800 – 1200/month and could possibly stretch to $1300 for a great place. I’m really interested in living in Dean Highland. I have a strong preference for a duplex or similar, or possibly a small apartment community. It will just be me and my 14-lb well-behaved pup! One bedroom minimum or more.
I currently live in the Austin metro area, a 1.5 hour drive from y’all. I’ll be doing my first couple of scouting visits to Waco Saturday, 6/20, and Monday, 6/22, but can also come and view a rental in the neighborhood at a later date if something comes on the market. I’ve got excellent credit my official Baylor contract in hand for proof of income. Thank you so much for considering renting to me! You can reach me at hilary77@gmail.com.
I hope your summer is off to a cool start. I know ours is.
We need to shed some Dean Highland inventory this summer, so we’re offering our world-famous t-shirts at an awesome price: $15/shirt.
Check out how amazing these t-shirts make you look:
We have:
3 smalls
11 10 mediums
and 4 3 larges left
As you can see, they’re selling like hotcakes. Get yours while you can! Shoot us an email at deanhighlandwaco@gmail.com if you’d like to take advantage of this offer!
Don’t forget: there will be no conservancy initiative cleanups during June and July, so enjoy your respite! Our next cleanup will be August 8th. Keep your eyes on these pages for more details.
If you haven’t already, be sure to sign up for the “Voices from Dean Highland” oral history project. You’d be leaving a legacy for those you love, and you’ll also be helping Dean Highland to establish itself as the premier neighborhood of not only Waco, but Central Texas too.
Please be sure to renew your membership with us if you haven’t done so since January of 2026. We are trying to revamp and synchronize our data collection tools to better serve y’all, and in order to do that we need the most up-to-date information available.
If you have any questions, give us a holler. Stay cool out there!
Our last neighborhood cleanup before the summer break was a big hit. We didn’t find any guns (this time!), but we did do something different and tackled one of our streets directly instead of relying on the City to maintain the rubbish.
Ten Dean Highlanders — that’s right, ten – showed up to pitch in this time: Austin from Pine, Tinker from Pine, and the Strietzels from Maple.
Most of you will know Austin and Tinker thanks to their longtime service as board members of the Dean Highland Neighborhood Association, but the Strietzels are still relatively new so give them all a hearty greeting next time you see them (perhaps at our 6th annual summer meet-and-greet gathering!).
We hit 27th Street with all we had, and did a good bit of work on it. I know many Dean Highlanders were, and are, grateful for our efforts.
The Principal at Dean Highland Elementary sent out the following flyer:
Along with the following ask:
As some of you may know, this has been a challenging year for our staff with many unexpected changes and upcoming transitions. Through it all, they have done their best to love and support our students. 💙💚
I would love to bless them with one final meal together for our End of Year Luncheon. If you would like to help donate toward this meal, any amount would be appreciated!
The Dean Highland Neighborhood Association has long been a supporter of our favorite neighborhood public elementary school, and as such, we donated to the special send-off for the teachers of Dragons:
Our bimonthly Dean Highland Conservancy Initiative cleanup will take place along 27th Street this Saturday (May 23rd). We are going to meet on 27th and Cumberland and then go all the way down and all the way up 27th, like so:
We will meet at 10am on 27th and Cumberland. Just walk there. Ride your bike. Bring the kids. Bring the dogs. Oh, we will also need a pickup truck since our erstwhile president will not be able to be there this Saturday. This will be our last cleanup before we take the long, hot months of June and July off.
That’s right, Dean Highlanders, we won’t be doing any guerilla-style conservancy initiative cleanups in June or July due to the heat. So be sure to get on out and join us this Saturday for our last cleanup before the Fall!
We’ve been advocating for you. Don’t forget to head on over to the City Council meeting on May 19th (it starts at 6pm) if you’re concerned about the rezoning efforts for the northwest corner of Dean Highland.
We love fellowshipping with you, too. Will we see you at the 6th Annual Summer Gathering on May 30th? It’ll be at the police station parking lot again.
We have big plans for the summer and beyond, and we need your financial support as well as your physical and spiritual support. We won’t be paying ourselves a salary with your donations. We’ll be using it to assert a bit more independence from the City of Waco’s amazing grants program. We’ll be using it to further enhance our ongoing projects. We’ll be using it to throw another awesome Holiday Party in December. That’s it.
Can you donate to the cause this Friday? If so, here’s our Venmo account. Just click on it to get started. There should be a spot for you to tell us why you’re donating this Friday.
Are you giving because you support our ongoing history projects? Or perhaps you want to donate to the war chest we will need to fight for every acre of Hillcrest Park? Maybe you want to contribute to this years’ wild and wacky Holiday Party?
If you don’t do Venmo, you can always drop off some cash or a check at our Treasurer’s house. Rick lives at 2925 Maple Ave. He says you can put the much-needed financial support right into his mailbox, without even having to knock on the door!
Please, we need all the financial support we can get.
(If you have any questions about taxes and donations to the neighborhood association, please shoot us an email.)
Please allow me to introduce Dr. James “Jim” SoRelle, a now-retired historian who worked at Baylor for several decades. He and his wife have also lived in Dean Highland for several decades, and are currently residing on Maple Avenue.
Jim actually grew up in Dean Highland, and while he hasn’t stayed here his entire life, his memories of this neighborhood are absolute treasures. He continues, even in retirement, to be an active member of the DHNA and is a regular at our conservancy initiative cleanups.
His heart is his greatest asset to the Dean Highland neighborhood, and we have been lucky to have Jim and his family as neighbors for so long. The SoRelles have given and given (and given) to Wacoans for a long time, and it’s always been done humbly, gracefully, and with a grateful heart. His efforts for our conservancy initiative reflect this “attitude of gratitude” time and again.
Dr SoRelle contributed to the “Voices from Dean Highland” project on September 14, 2024. Given that the neighborhood association’s stated goals are service, advocacy, and fellowship, please be sure to give Jim a hearty greeting if you see him out and about at one of our service projects, advocacy efforts, or raucous quarterly meetings. If you would like to collaborate or fellowship with him, shoot me (Brandon Christensen) an email and I’ll try to introduce you.
You can read more about our “Voices from Dean Highland” project here. You (yes, you!) and your story are way more interesting and important than you think, and this project is something that your kids and grandkids and other loved ones will appreciate long after you’re gone. Check out some other “Voices” spotlights here.
