It still feels as though it all happened just yesterday.
Fall of 1968: a new school year had just begun, and all of us in my St. Ignatius High School Class of 1970 were juniors, and exactly halfway through our time on Stanyan Street. The “new school” still called that today by many in my generation had been in the planning stages for years, with students selling candy bars and raffle tickets as fund-raisers since the time JFK was in the White House.
Work at the 37th Avenue site began in 1967, though financial difficulties and construction delays all but guaranteed that the Class of 1970 would finish out our high school days on Stanyan Street, with the new school serving as home only to younger generations of S.I. students and that was just fine with us.