Gateway High School - Portavian Yearbook (Monroeville, PA)

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«arrarum 64 the 60’s 25 th ANNIVERSARY25th ANNIVERSARY portavian Amtmifary 7 5th ANNIVERSARY PICTURES (Page 7) Top: Pep Rally, 1963; Stu- dent uses new chemistry equipment, 1959-60; Gator mascot of the 1962-63 school year. Middle: 1963 Prom As Time Goes By.” Bot- tom: Silver platter presented to Gateway's AFS student, 1968; Band members of the 1966 marching season.” The early 1960's provided the students with many additions to the extra-curricular program, enabling them to jump on the bandwagon of youthful involvement which seemed to be taking the nation by a storm after Kennedy entered the Presidency. Everything was being built up or renewed: the Gateway stadium, with seating for 2700, was opened and the class A A football team was ready to start serious competition; the school paper, the Alphalite, was admitted to the national rating society for high school newspapers; and, a student committee desingned the official class ring for the school. Organizations for every possible interest were being created as fast as the need for them arose, and soon, the Future Homemakers of America, the Biology club, and the pep club appeared on the scene. Baseball and wrestling opened up their programs on the heels of a major Gateway athletic first: the 1961 boys swim team had the distinction of being the first to send representatives to statewide competitions. The desire to be involved spread to interaction with other schools as well. The SGA hosted the 1962 Pennsylvania Association of Student Councils Convention, while the marching band hosted All-State Band, with participants from 103 Western Pennsylvania schools that same year. Gateway entered the decade with a roar — motivation was high as were expectations, and the student body couldn V wait to live up to each and every goal they had set.

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th ANNIVERSARY 25th ANNIVERSARY 25th ANNIVERSARY The 1960’s was a decade of growth and rebellion. Teenage America wanted to make itself known, and so it did. Hippies and Flower Children became infamous, and as one Michigan newspaper put it, “They took their tactics from Gandhi, their ulealism from philos- ophy class, and theu money from Daddy. ” The youth was the Woodstock generation, the Viet- nam generation, the Civil Rights generation. But before all that, before the war and psychadelics and Jimi Hendrix, there was Camelot. For one brief, shining moment, there was the prom- ise of a light at the end of the tunnel. There was the hope that youth and vigor and touch football would charm a nation. And for almost four years, John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie made that hope a reality. When Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, the world mourned. Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed the crushing blow by stating simply, “We’ll laugh again, it’s just that we’ll never be young again.” Lyndon Johnson accepted the Presidency at an un- enviable time; the war was now a U.S. problem and the youth had long since thrown down their hula hoops in favor of picket signs reading, “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” and “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” Some turned to the music of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, the balladeers of the day, but many others opted for sit-ins and marches, protesting not only Vietnam, but the lack and decline of civil rights. Behind Martin Luther King, Jr., blacks and whites both emerged, demanding racial equality and often being the targets of violence. Amidst the turbulent national events, Gateway stu- dents struggled to find their place in a rapidly changing world that seemed to romp from one extreme to the next. Gateway made demands too — and the students here became caught up in the spirit of the times just like everyone else. PICTURES (Page 6) Top: “Class Day” skits, performed by respective classes, provuled entertainment for the whole school, 1962; Baseball player wears a Monroeville-Pitcairn uniform, 1960. Middle: Gateway sends outstanding divers to state competitions, 1962-63. Bottom: Gateway mourns the loss of a Presuient, 1963; Alphalite editors discuss the next edition of the school paper, 1963. 6 Anniversary

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 Jth ANNIVERSARY25th ANNIVERSARY 25th ANNIVERSARY PICTURES (page 8) Left, top to bottom: Fin- nates synchronized swimming team, 1961-62: “Diary of Anne Frank” performed by the Senior Class of 1964; Presentation of diploma by Principal Yarnel. 1960. Above, top to bottom: 1965 cheerleader leading basketball fans with cheer “Gators are the best! Yes!”; 1961-64 basketball team. 8 Anniverury