Andrean High School - Decussata Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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Upstairs in what was once the exclusive province of males, we pass the chemistry room and marvel that, despite a quarter of a century of beginners’ mistakes and labs gone wrong, no one has ever blown it up. How many of today’s important scientists have mixed their first chemicals or performed their first ex- periments here? Downstairs again, in the holy stillness of the chapel, we say a prayer for those who have prayed here before us, and think about the many, many prayers Andrean’s athletic teams have offered here, and the daily Masses of Basilian Fathers. The walls of the empty cafeteria still echo with applause for twenty five years of inept tray droppers, and we wonder why, after many years of integration, boys and girls still gravitate to opposite sides of the room. And how many literary masterpieces, we wonder, were born here in our library, before first hour? Introduction — 7

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6 — Introduction

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8 — Introduction