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

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. . . The Same As It Ever Was . . In The Beginning . . . 1886. Grover Cleveland was president. Five years earlier. President Garfield was assasinated. America was entering a period of industrial expansion. Mark Twain had just completed Huckleberry Finn. Against this backdrop, 76 students and three Jesuits formed the first link in the chain of Ignatius that we now add to. The lifestyle of that first graduating class was an alien one by our standards. Most of the technology that we now take for granted did not exist. Food was kept cold in iceboxes. Newspapers were the only form of mass media. Movies and televi- sion and the effect they had on culture did not exist yet. Stables could be found behind most houses. Through the years, the Ignatius students watched the world change around them. Two world wars and a depression, the expansion of the West, the construction of the Terminal Tower, the influence of the car and the computer on our lifestyles; all this happened while Ignatius students studied in these buildings. Old structures were demolished and new buildings sprang up as the campus of Ignatius went through a “Metamorphosis.” cont.

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ivsvwv ✓ Illuminated at night, the tower become a prominent fixture in the ncar-West Side skyline. Strolling through the mall is a favorite pastime of bored students. Merc, several students meet between classes to exchange test answers. After the successful Mass of the Holy Spirit. Mrs. Reardon approaches Fr. Styles and congratulates him on a job well done. Theme