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

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This fxxjk's theme of Turning Point may seem to hi far-feu hod and iust the creation of some spacy yearbook editor. However, nothing could be further from the truth, fuming Point was chosen be-i ause the title had so mut h to do w ith our changing school. As mentioned before, we prided ourselves on our individuality. Following that throught further and observing that our individual personalities often c lashed we sec that we perhaps were really scare hing for an identity for our different personalities. At West 110th and Carroll, varying identities saturated our solution of high sc hool days. Maybe these inc onsistencie$ of opinions and habits had forever existed, but only then, in our search to lx a stable s hcxjl. had we noticed and taken time to analyze. Perhaps a stable school wasn't wanted or needed by students and faculty. Star-studded basketball tourts and football fields weren't the- total criterion for a winning school year or a stable student body and fac ultv. Even though we mav not have reallv attempted to he stable, somehow things ended up in proper balance. Some students were a little too wild but the majority kept things under control Various teachers stuck to their traditional methods but were counter-balanced by a number of informal teachers. And in the end. what we got out of school was exac tly as much as we put in. Some contributed a lot: others not so much. The main point was that when we did contribute, we did it differently than past students had done. And that was our Turning Point. I i?|

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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. ■

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