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

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Right: Mike Kurutz surveys the situation, which includes the cast of thousands — the Band. Dreams of Caesar flash through Mike’s mind. To the average student June. July, and August meant baseball, beaches, sun tans, tennis, rock concerts, family vacations and other fun-filled activities. The main goal for the summer was to squeeze as much fun as you possibly could during three short months. For many students, though, hard work was mixed with fun. A nine member outdoor environmental biology group led by Mr. Sharp continued their school year until the first week of July. They studied the biology and chemistry of areas such as Cape Cod. Massachusetts, Bar Harbor. Maine, and Fund Hook’s Lake in Nova Scotia. During the last week of June, eight members from the IGNATIAN and six members from the EYE spent five days at a workshop in Athens. Ohio for the purpose of producing better publications. The debate team sent four of its members to summer institutes as far away as Washington University in St. Louis. Missouri. Another member spent two weeks at Boston Massachusetts, while the other two went to Ohio University for the expressed purpose of learning about the year’s topic and doing extensive research. The athletic teams followed the Greek philospher Periander's advice that “careful practice is everything. The cross country team started conditioning themselves in mid-July with frequent jaunts to Edgewater Park. The football team, preparing for the upcoming independent season, started their summer practice and team drills by the end of July. The soccer team started their rugged practices by the first week of August. Right: Summer sessions are the most dreaded for the football team. Team offense prepares to assimilate yet another set of plays. 2 'Summer

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The masked Tim Galvin. Terry Hunt. Mike Mawby, Tim Madigan. and Kevin Ryan add their unique blend of senior spirit to the car caravan which originated at the downtown Huntington Park Garage. The car caravan left after the Mass of the Holy Spirit in the Cathedral. It was police escorted, and traveled to school in preparation for the St. Joe's rally, visually and vocally spreading our spirit thoughout the city. The Spice Of Student Life One of the unique characteristics of our school has been its ability to blend the highly academic with a diversified social scene. The social life of the student was based upon the idea of a community in which students could assemble beyond the confines of the classroom and come to realize the value of each individual outside his everyday element. Various events contributed to this social development including mixers. athletic contests, the Jog-a-thon. religious activities, and extracurriculars. The social life of a student included a religious aspect. This was evident through the participation of all four classes in the religious activities program. Weekly class liturgies offered the individual a chance to join his fellow classmates in worship; family Masses brought families to Ignatius to celebrate the Eucharist while fathers and sons came together at the Cathedral for the same purpose. The secular dimension of the student's social development was provided for by a series of events that allowed the student to mingle more freely with his classmates. Football games were not only a place where students could yell, cheer, and vent their frustrations, but they also were social happenings. opportunities for young men to meet young women and throughly enjoy themselves. The social season peaked with the school dances such as Homecoming and the Senior Prom. Students brought their dates into the Ignatius scene to talk, dance, and most of all have fun. That was the key social idea in 1980. Par Left: Last night I saw .in elephant in my pajamas.” says senior Joe Olecki, how an elephant ever got in my pajamas I'll never know. SJudenl Ufc It

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Hard Work, Fun Typify Summer Left: Protoplasm (freshmen), surrounded by the coll way (senior BiR Brothers), and carrying the nucleus race other cells in the Amoeba race at Freshman Orientation Day. Above: Tedious hours of marching and rehearsing lent a new and interesting sound from the Band. Jim Nousek tries desperately to stay awake during this session. Left: Summer months saw dedicated pre-freshmen working to enhance skills in order to prepare for the rigors of the coming school year. Summer 13