St Ignatius High School - Ignatian Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Fall meant, first of all, new things: new classes, new fire walls on the school stairways, new posters to boost the football campaign. Fall . . . The opening of school . . . One morning we boarded buses and street cars and returned to Ignatius. We found new things there in the September sunshine; with eagerness we watched for the return of old October. We renewed old friendships. We found new freshman faces and saw excitement and fresh wonderment in their eyes. Workmen were still building the new firewalls around the stairways. All through September we tracked white plaster-dust up and down the stairs, down the halls, into the classrooms. We registered for new classes, bought new books to read. When October came we bought football passes, talked of lab experiments and coming dances. 8

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A BETTER YEAR 7 Father Daniel B. Cronin, S.J., was president of Ignatius during our first three years. Except for the times we got together with our Dads at Fathers Club meetings, we never saw much of Father Cronin. At these meetings he would say a few words to the group; and afterwards, if he happened to meet us, he would stop, shake hands, and talk with us. For a tall man he was quiet; but the way he dealt with us made us think him a very kind and gentle priest. We didn’t see him often, but each year Father Cronin made an improvement or change at St. Ignatius which made it a better school to come to, to study in, to hang around in a bit in the afternoon to talk with your buddies. The first thing he did was to replace the wooden flooring that was worn and loose. At the end of summer when we came back to school the new terrazzo floor was everywhere. He put an old frame building behind St. Mary’s church through a transformation; changed it from an unused parish hall into a cafeteria for us. He made it clean and modern, and furnished it with tables and chairs he bought from army surplus. Father improved the library, too. He had the walls painted, new lights put in; he bought new books and shelves on which to store them. For our safety he moved the boilers from the basement of the main building to a new building at the back of the playing yard. In the last year he was here, he had new lighting fixtures put in every classroom to make class and study easier and more pleasant. The last thing he did before he left St. Ignatius was to make plans and provisions for the new fire walls which were finished shortly after school began last fall. Because of the kindness of Father Cronin, because of his work and foresight, our last year at Ignatius has been better. We are grateful, Father Cronin. To show our gratitude we dedicate our annual to you. It is a silent tribute, perhaps, for all you have done. But because you are a quiet man, we know you will accept and appreciate it. Fatlu-r Rieri, S.J., Father Crimmin, S.J., and Katlier Cronin, S.J. at last year's Father and Son Communion breakfast.

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MASS OF THE HOLY GHOST