Tolleston High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Dances, Games Are Vorsity cheerleaders procticed during the summer to keep in top physicol condition. Troditionol report cords were reploced by the Royol-McBee system in the city schools this yeor Judy Sondusky, Deon Stosok, Johnnie Bell Fear son, and Leono Tillery comporc grodes on the new cords. Crowds onxiously look on os Tolleston goins yordoge Conchita Smith, Rosolee Powell, and Maxine McGhee used the library os on importont oid to study. 4

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A QUARTER OF A CENTURY hos brought many chonges to Tolleston High School. If one were to go bock twenty-hve years to 1937, he would find a young school reody to graduate its first Senior Class. This first Tolleston graduating class consisted of 92 seniors. The total enrollment ot thot time wos only 1,304, which included both grade school and high school students. By 1948, the total enrollment had grown to 1,638, and there were 1 57 in the graduating closs There is now o total enrollment of 1,675 students, and the graduating class con- sists of 187 seniors. Through the years, Tolleston grew with the oddition of the annex, the portables, the south wing of the main building, new science and shop rooms, and the new Boys' Gym With the erection of the Ernie Pyle Elementary School in the summer of 1960. Tolleston wos converted to o junior-senior high school. This permitted hiah school classes to meet in the old primary building and relieved much of the congestion in the main building New courses hove been odded to the curriculum to insure students of the education needed in todoy's changing world Although the size of both Tolleston School and its student body hove increased through the past twenty-five years, and many of the outward appeoronces of the school hove chonged, the loyolty of the students has never changed Throughout the post quorter century, innumerable subjects hove been taught and studied, scores of friendships mode, varied interests ac- quired, ond many lives influenced by sincere efforts of the Tolleston faculty. Faculty, students, olong with football and basketball gomes, parties, exams, club meetings, proms, re- port cords, and homework are now, and always hove been, the bockbone of Tolleston Tolleston students enjoy attending that first formal dance, dread taking finals, ond anticipate winning honors and recognition |ust os members of classes of the post twenty-five years hove done. of Contents Underclossmen Organizations Sports ...... Administration Seniors ....... School Life

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Part Of School Life Lorenzo Rogers mode o desperote ottempt to recover the boll. Students were stomped before being odmitted to club donees. New ROTC coders proceed drill precision on Tollestoo's baseball field The new Boys' Gym was the scene of mony Tolleston soool events, os well os home bavketboll gomes s