Former students help fix up Claretian seminary for 100th anniversary
For decades, a loose association of high school buddies has been getting together to talk about the good old days.
Every August during a meetup, they swap stories (for the umpteenth time) about their days in the 1950s and 1960s as students at the Dominguez Memorial Seminary, the property built in 1924 for the Claretians, an order of Catholic priests and brothers.
The seminary, located in the unincorporated community of Dominguez Hills near Compton, functioned as a high school, novitiate, and college for future priests until it closed in 1972. The property eventually became a retreat center and now serves as a retirement center for retired Claretian missionaries.