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

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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

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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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. . . The Same As It Ever Was . . . Students “Appear” Different Even within the strict confines of the dress code regulations, clothing and hair styles varied throughout the years. At one time or another. Ignatius hallways have witnessed everything from straight-leg pants to bell-bottom pants (even knickerbockers early on), wide ties, skinny ties bow ties, sports jackets, army surplus jackets, button shoes, top-siders. long hair, crew cuts (even bald swimmers). In the same way, musical preferences progressed through the years. Remarkable it seems that through all this change, the basic character of the Ignatius student remains the same. 1981 saw a re-emergence of spirit. Impromptu rallies actually worked, and the spirit overflowed into the games. For example, in the Can-ton-McKinley game, a tunnel of fans greeted the Ignatius players. This spirit was not new to Ignatius. The same spirit was Deeply engrossed by a well-written article in the summer supplement of The Ignatian. Bob Conrad is oblivious to classroom activities. present in 1945, when 53,000 people watched St. Ignatius beat Cathedral Latin for the Senate football championship. The same spirit was present in 1919, when the freshmen class claimed for themselves the title of The Class With The Most Pep Ever. But the Ignatius character involves much more. The massive parties Ignatius students now throw correspond with the banquets and the picnics that students held in the distant past. 4 Theme