Hales Franciscan High School - Spartan Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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ACADE IC Entrance examinations were given throughout the academic year for applicants from grammar schools all over the city of Chicago. Many students travelled great distances to attend Hales. The entrance examination consisted of a battery of tests measuring the student and his capability com- pared to others taking the same test. On analysis of his results, a student was then accepted without ques- tion, accepted conditionally to summer school or simply rejected because of poor performance on a comparative basis. 2 The First Days . . . . . for some were new, they were green and uninformed. For some it was the return after the Hrst year-oh, so difiicult a year. Others, like the newest senior, looked forward from the aims of three earlier years. And so, the doors swang open to revitalize the quieted halls from such a long summer, the 1965-66 academic year began!

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The path to leadership began as we stepped through these halls to find behind each door a vast resource of learnable material to enlighten us, stimulate us, develop us. Had we the opportunity to peer through the windows of each door, we would have found a devoted leader guiding his class to higher academic achievements. This man, the man behind each door, enabled us to gain from his versatile knowledge and experiences a standard which we shall set for the world. Past the door and in the class we were sometimes duped by the instructed material we were to have read. Here we sat engulfed by the meaningfulness of each statement our instructor made and often encouraged as we answered an inquisitive question. Yes, it was down these halls, inside the doors, where our minds were guided toward leadership with an intellectual approach in a well disciplined manner. After the demolition of St. Xavier College and Academy, the site at Forty- Y '-K l ninth and Cottage Grove took on a new look. An upsurge of construction began and, as an end result, Hales Franciscan High School stood proudly awaiting its opening enrollment of approximately 290 students. The finished school was the con- quest of almost ten years of discussion, planning, and building. Q The new school received the incoming students. Almost all were from Corpus Christi High School which closed down completely. The new Freshman class was the Hrst influence on Hales Franciscan insofar as this class, our first graduating class, would be the actual tradition builders of the school. H With the passing of time the new look of Hales gave into tradition. Each year an increasing number of students enrolled to help the tradition-pacing class of 1966, the Hrst graduating class of all-Hales students. Along with the increased number of students a more diversified course of study was oliered and additional faculty members were added to cope with the continued growth. Now we look back at the joint efforts of the Sacred Heart Province of Franciscan Fathers and the Archdiocese of Chicago to review the impact of their educational ideal. We look back and End an everlasting impression of academic and spiritual growth found in each graduating student. This impression has been carried into the personal lives of the graduates at home, on the job, in the community, and in the world.