At halftime, Kelly Delaney of Saint Joseph Academy was announced as the Ignatius queen. Homecoming weekend was kicked off on Friday, October 14 when the football team bombed the South High Flyers 34-0. A collection of boyhood dreams? No, these were highlights of Homecoming 77. A victory for your favorite football team. Brian Smith and Margaret WirtZĨ FEATUREA pretty queen. Queen Kelly Delaney Tom Sturtevant Ported Scatena. And slowly but surely we alighted from our seats, becoming less and less passive spectators and more and more active participants.ĪBOVE Escort Many O'Malley presents the official Homecoming bracelet to Queen kelly Delaney RIGHT The 1977 Homeconung Court Rick Shockley m proxy for Marty O'Maiiey. From where we now stood, the intangible qualities of the school were assuming seeable, hearable, touchable, liveable realities. Sort out and utilize the opportunities which this understanding afforded us. The labyrinth began to fit into a much more understandable pattern, and we began to Gradually, our awe evolved into a certain pride as we became an active part of what we could only marvel at before. We sat as static observers, absorbing whatever might be afforded to us at any moment. Personalities and activities which could not be adequately comprehended. From our neophotic viewpoint, Ignatius appeared as a labyrinth of educational roles. We regarded Ignatius with a certain awe, a by-product of the aura or mystique traditionally surrounding the school.
we recall the first, impressionable stages of our high school existence. Embarking on the year that was, the 1147 perspectives became Ignatius and as the year progressed, as our moods and views changed, so too did Ignatius.īECOMEAs we retrace the steps of our educational and emotional development.
We each viewed the school from our different viewpoints, our different perspectives, and we each gleaned something different from the experience. Fast Stders and West Siders, rowdy seniors and timid freshmen (and some not so timid), "wise" sophomores and some not-so-"wise" juniors, brownies and burnouts, All-Senate footballers and All-Backyard intramural-ists in short, each of us contributed in a different way, a way congruous to his own unique personality. We assembled as binks and jocks, editors and actors. We, those thousand-plus students, gathered on that crisp August day because wo were St. Ignatius tower for no apparent reason - except one. Individuals, 1147 of them, from the near and far corners of Northeastern Ohio met in the shadow of the St.
S the rays of a vibrant August sun filtered through clouds of smoke hovering high above the Flats, and etched a long shadow across the gray pavement of the Near West Side, groups of young men converged on West 30th. National Aeronautics And Space Administration4 THEME Ignatius High School 1911 West Thirtieth Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113 Volume 43 Price-$10.00% Text from Pages 1 - 224 of the 1978 volume: “ +