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

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Community Projects Involve Students V | oungstefs with smiling faces are a plentiful sight In the community surrounding St. Ignatius. O ne of the busiest streets before and after school is Carroll Aye., a main route to and from Ignatius. 14 icisams vcj

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I—) uring the Mil season many les apathetic and physically able lgnatiih use their spare time to partake in a game of touch football. c V construction ol the nev stairs in the main building forced students to enter by means ot the school parking lot. r o freshmen, fall was a lime of frustration, to sophomores a feeling of class unity, to juniors the arrival of class rings, and to seniors the closing of the Senior Lounge. Fall was a deluge of rain on the day we had to enter through the east doorway. a detour through the faculty stairs, and a bruised head on the third floor scaffolding. Fall brought on the anxiety of the quarter exams. the apprehension of first quarter grades, and the fear of parent's night. II also brought an invasion of bees into innocent classrooms, trial-and-error with the new homeroom setup, and punctual, faithful detentions. And finally, fall was praise at tin; St. Edward game, that first immortalized snowflake, and the magnificent four day Thanksgiving weekend.

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I d 1 bi very weekday a community of boys from middle class suburban families is brought together within the walls of St. Ignatius High School. It is a nice cozy little community in which everybody is bonded together in love and friendship. But walk outside these doors and the student is thrust into a totally different world. It is a world of tin? lower class America, the slums, the foreigners-. people just managing to get along. Call it what you like, but the fact still remains — a vast incongruity and a constant resentment exists between the two groups. The students of St. Ignatius in recent years have become increasingly aware of these differences and have made concrete efforts to bridge the gap between these two communities through an organization called SC IP (Student Community Involvement Program). SCIP is primarily concerned with activities for the betterment of the community. The members of SCIP offer their time and labor for the community through such activities as cleaning up the neighborhood. repairing old houses, tenements and providing food for the hungry. They offer the young people of the neighborhood service in the field of education through tutoring, and provide them with recreation. o n the corner of W. 30th and Lorain Ave. Stood a great landmark of Cleveland's past — Smilin' Sam's Repossessed Furniture Store. At the end of 1971 Smilin' Sam's was razed to make way for tuture neighborhood renewal projects.