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

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r A wild summer ahead, we rushed from the field of academics to the grounds of play with the termination of the I‘ 77-78 school year. Following the season of sun. we embarked upon a year starting in late August which was destined to be marked by change. That sunny and hot Wednesday th 30th displayed twenty-three new faces ro-plaring twenty-five of the familiar ones Of these two espet ially friendly men who were dose to the entire school but particularly the senior t lass, were Dan Conway and |.P. Mr (iinnis. The fai ultv change was perhaps the first Turning Point which occurred. Returning to learn at a plac e we hardly recognized was diffic ult hut equal to the task we were as we settled in and took to our self-assumed duty of unsettling. Activity was a part of our essence while passiv-ity wasn't even a part of our realm y v

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A pied piper h.it from the pie throw for the missions satisfies Mike Winning's need to be different while nestled in the Student Countil oflu e. Rivers of time overflowed wetting our ye.tr with .t flood of new people, unprecedented attitudes, and inovative ideas. Oftentimes though, this surging movement remained relatively unnoticed. Presumably insignificant occurrences accumulated and produced more obvious changes. However, the smaller changes were overshadowed by limelight issues such as personnel replacement and. in general, the different approach in affairs. Underlying the larger developments was a psychological universe of feelings and theories. From our youthfully energetic minds emanated these feelings — good, bad, straight, and radical — and for many of them we were criticized. But then again, who was to sav which of our opinions were correct or not. Who had the right to |udge the proper dec ibel level at which to play a student-owned stereo? How many problems would tossing an ashtray as a trisbee cause? These questions were unanswerable because of one word: individuality. While one group might lx pulling for traditional means, another one would yell toga or' polka in the senior lounge attempting to express their difference while still another found fit to sit hack and simply observe. All these people were correct for themselves, but all were wrong for the next guv. No single force really had the right to establish a clean ut image for the entire mass to uphold. This was the distinguishing factor which made us the diamond in a history of emeralds. Individuals, yes. But together, we generated a school with a new personality. A phrase to describe our personality: Turning Point-individually 1979. ■