Tolleston High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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{Introduction On the wall in every room in our beloved Tolleston High School, there hangs a clock. Its hands have slowly ticked away the minutes of four years of high school life for one hundred twenty-six graduating seniors. These years, however, have been full ones, filled to the brim with studies, R O.T.C., athletics, clubs, cokes at the Dari, dates, and dances. How often in the past four years have the seniors looked at the clock and watched its hands move toward four o'clock when after-school activities began! Now it is really “four o'clock for our seniors, and the long awaited time has come for them to leave high school for good. At this time, many of them wish the hands on the clock could be turned back so they could be freshmen again. Although this cannot be done in reality; in memory, through the camera's eye and an album, it is possible to relive those four years of high school life. Turning back the clock to the beginning of the school year on a Tuesday morning in September, we hear the ringing of the 8:40 bell heralding the beginning of the new school year. The vacation-silenced halls re-echo the familiar sounds and voices for a few short minutes, and then all settles down to the familiar pattern of school.