Andrean High School - Decussata Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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PATRON St. Andrew, Apostle and Martyr MOTTO Magister Meus Christus Christ Is My Teacher SCHOOL COLORS Red and Gold NICKNAME Fighting 59ers OPENING DATE September 14, 1959 DEDICATION October 16, 1960 ENROLLMENT . 1460 LOCATION 5959 Broadway, Gary, Indiana ■

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Andrean High, the first Catholic high school in the city of Gary, began its history on September 14, 1959, with 331 freshmen enrolled. This school, hoped for by the people of Gary for many years, and sacrificed for during the fund raising campaign begun in 1956, was established by the Most Reverend Andrew G. Grutka, bishop of Gary, as a co-institu- tional school. A co-institutional school is one in which boys and girls are taught in separate classes by a dual faculty under a single administration. As such a school, Andrean has one principal, Father John Burke, C.S.B. and two assistant prin- cipals, Father Robert O ' Halloran, C.S.B. , for the boys and Sister Rose Mary, SS.C.M., for the girls. The Basilian Fathers of Toronto, Canada, and lay men teach the boys; the Sisters of Saints Cyril and Methodius, from Danville, Pennsylvania, and lay women teach the girls. Most of the classrooms are located in two areas, the boys ' wing and the girls ' wing, but all students use the same library and cafeteria facilities. Andrean ' s curricular offerings are divided into two major areas, the college preparatory program and the non-college program with majors in business and homemaking. Besides the atmosphere of a Catholic school, Andrean offers its students opportunities for spiritual growth in the annual three-day retreat, the First Friday Mass, daily Mass, availability of confessors, and accessibility of two chapels. Despite the fact that the boys and girls are taught in separate classes, they take part in many social and extra- curricular activities through the various clubs and activities which have grown up during these four years. Every aspect of Andrean ' s activities — educational, spirit- ual, social, physical- -flows from the basic philosophy of the school, the formation of the true Christian. . .the super- natural man who thinks, judges and acts consistently in accordance with right reason illumined by the supernatural light of the example and teaching of Christ; in other words. . . the true and finished man of character. (Pius XI)

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FATHER WILLIAM J. DUGGAN, CSB, First Principal. It was that wonderful year. . .Latest trends m schools called for completely new concepts in design. Cafeteria. . .out of style. . .doors, offices, lockers, libraries and tile floors were simply non-existent. . .Yes, cow bells were stand-ins for IBM clock systems. . .males inhabited the girls ' corridor, with only a Mason-Dixon line between them. . .our first dance was held in the commercial rooms. . . separate buses were the vogue. . .the priests tramped across the fields to school and the Sisters hot-rodded in from Dyer in just twenty minutes. . .All these events and many more helped to make freshman year unforgettable. STANDING: Sr. Miriam Michael, Fr. Heath, Sr. Huberta, Sr. Rose Mary, Fr. Duggan, Fr. Burke, Sr. Natalie, Fr. Wick, Sr. Emma, Fr. Farrell, Sr. Edwardine, Fr. Higgins. Fr. Rankin, Sr. Alice, Sr. Janet. SITTING: Fr. Brennan,