Andrean High School - Decussata Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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DECUSSATA Andrean High School Merrillville, Indiana Silver Anniversary Issue 1959-1984 CONTENTS Student Life 12 Academics 32 Sports 64 Organizations 98 Album 122 Seniors 154 Community 178 Index 195 Acknowledgements 200 Introduction — 3

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2 — Introduction

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Then . . . “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-institutional 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 principals, 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, Penn- sylvania, 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 col- lege preparatory program and the non-college, 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 ex- tracurricular activities through the various clubs and activities which have grown up during these four years. Every aspect of Andrean’s activities — educational, spiritual, social, physical — flows from the basic philosophy of the school, the forma- tion of ‘the true Christian ... the supernatural 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)” Decussata, 1963.