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QUIGLEY PREPARATORY SEMINARY NORTH - MY HIGH SCHOOL YEARS & VIRTUAL TOUR

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FRESHMAN YEAR CLASS PHOTO
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Thus Begins Phase 2 Of The Dork Years! LOL!

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SOPHOMORE YEAR CLASS PHOTO - A BAD Hair Day!!
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Actually, As You'll Notice, It Was A Bad Hair YEAR!!

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QUIGLEY PREPARATORY SEMINARY NORTH - QUIGLEY NORTH FOR SHORT. (THAT IS UNTIL QUIGLEY SOUTH CLOSED AND ALL STUDENTS FROM THE SOUTH SIDE OF CHICAGO WERE RE-ROUTED HERE AND THEN IT BECAME ARCHBISHOP QUIGLEY PREPARATORY SEMINARY - ARCHBISHOP QUIGLEY FOR SHORT -OR JUST QUIGLEY.
 
THIS MEDIEVAL PALACE OF A SCHOOL FIRST OPENED IN 1905. BUT NOW, AT THE END OF THIS YEAR - MAY, 2007, THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO IS CLOSING IT AS A SCHOOL - AGAINST THE INTENSE PROTEST OF COUNTLESS ALUMNI (INCLUDING MYSELF) AND FAMILIES OF WOULD-HAVE-BEEN FUTURE STUDENTS.
 
THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE - WHICH TAKES UP AN ENTIRE HEART-OF-DOWNTOWN-CHICAGO CITY BLOCK, IS AN OFFICIAL HISTORIC LANDMARK. THEY CANNOT ALTER THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING. BUT THEY PLAN TO GUT OUT THE ENTIRE INSIDE OF THE PLACE AND TURN IT INTO OFFICES. THIS BUILDING IS TOO BIG FOR SOMETHING AS PLAIN AS OFFICES. NEEDLES TO SAY, WE ARE ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS ABOUT THIS. BUT THE WONDERFUL ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO WON'T LISTEN TO US. THEY DO NOT CARE, OBVIOUSLY, IN THE LEAST WHAT WE THINK. NEARLY EVERY STUDENT HAS A SPECIAL SORT OF ATTACHMENT TO THE PLACE. I HAVEN'T COME ACROOS ONE YET WHO DOESN'T. WE ARE ALL GOING TO MISS THE PLACE THAT PLAYED SUCH AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN OUR PASTS.
 
SO...I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO VISIT CHICAGO  DURING QUIGLEY'S LAST MONTH OF SCHOOLING BEFORE THE UNFEELING BUREAUCRATSTS DESTROY THE PLACE. LUCKILY, EVERYTHING LOOKED EXACTLY AS IT DID WHEN I WAS A STUDENT THERE BACK IN 1982-1986. I TOOK AS MANY PHOTOS AS MY CAMERA WOULD ALLOW.
 
NOW, HERE IS A GRAND, PHOTO-BASED VIRTUAL TOUR OF MY ALMA MATER.

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JUNIOR YEAR CLASS PHOTO - My Favorite HS Class Pic
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Well, At Least My Hair Wasn't As Bad As Before! My Duran Duran Haircut!

Quigley Is A Massive, Medieval Palace Of A School. It Looks Delightfully Out Of Place In The Heart Of Downtown Chicago On Chestnut And Rush Streets Just Off Of Michigan Ave. - Surrounded By Modern-Looking Skyscraper Buildings. Though It Is Meant To Be A School Where Young Boys Go For High School If They Are Potentially Interested In Becoming Catholic Priests, It Is A VERY Gothic-Looking Place - Littered With Statues And Gargoyles All Over The Outside And Standing Over Three Stories Tall. The Inside Is Equally Palacial - Marble Floors And Walls, And No Less Than THREE Long, Winding Staircases - Not To Mention One Regular Staircase In The Front And More Mini Flights Of Stairs Than You Can Shake A Stick At Throughout The Building. It Even Comes Complete With SECRET Staircases, Passageways, Tunnels, And Rooms BELOW The Structure Far Underground.
 
(I Know This Because I - Ever The Curious Adventurer, Discovered Them Along With Some Of My Friends. Eventually, We Were Caught And Forced To Write A Lengthy Essay About We SHOULDN'T "Explore" Out-Of-Limits Areas)
 
Obviously, I Did Not Become A Priest. (2 Of My Main Reasons For Choosing Quigley Were To Escape My Parents' Abuse And Get Away From Them A Week At A Time. Another Reason Was To Get Out Of The Sheltered Suburban Life And Experience The Big City. Well, It Wasn't Los Angeles, But It Was The Next Best Of My Limited Options At The Time. My 3rd Reason Was That I Felt A Great, Strong Sense Of "Community" From The Place At First Sight And That Was Also Very Much What I Wanted In A School...Especially A School That Would Keep Me Away From My Friends At Home)
 
Nevertheless, This Was The PERFECT School For Me To Go To. I Knew That Right Off The Bat When I First Saw A Presentation Of It When They Came To My Cathoilic Grade School, Saint Emily's In My Hometown Of Mt. Prospect, Illinois. I Had A Gut Feeling I Was DESTINED To Go To That School And No Other Would Do.

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SENIOR CLASS PHOTO - Mom Buried Me Under Hairspray
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I Was Tied For The Most Extra-Curricular Activities Over The Years Out Of Entire Class.

OUR TOUR NOW BEGINS!

Let's Begin Our Tour Walking The Path I Did Most Mornings On My Way To School. With The Exception Of Wednesdays - Where I Would Have My Breakfast At The Below-Ground Restaurant In The Hancck Building, I Would Often Meet Some Of My Friends At McDonald's A Few Blocks Away Just Outside The Subway Station On Clark Near Rush St.. When It Got Close To When The School Opened Its Doors, We Would Walk Down To Rush Street Till We Got To Chestnut And Rush. Here You See The Sights Of The School As My Friends And I Saw Them On Our Way To The Front Entrance Along The Rush St. Side Of The School Near The Corner. First, We Come Up To And Pass The Outside Of Our School Chapel - The Famous Saint James Chapel - Which In Itself Is Bigger Than Most Churches. Just To The Side Of That, Is The Courtyard Where The Vehicles Enter And Exit. Along The Side Of The Building Down Rush To Chestnut, Are The Windows Of Three Stories Of Classrooms. On The Corner Itself Is A Statue Of The Founder Of The School, Archishop Quigley. We Then Turn The Corner And Walk Down Chestnut St. To The Main Entrance.

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Now We've Walked Down Chestnut St. And Are Standing At The Main Student Entrance Of Quigley. Looking Further Down Chestnut St., Just Ahead Are The Hancock Building - The Third Tallest Building In The World (At Least During The Years 1982-1986), And One Of Chicago's Famous, Elegant (And Exopensive) Shopping Malls, The Water Tower Place - So Named Because It was Built Next To And Across From The Chicago's ORIGINAL Water Tower - Which Still Stands Exactly As It Was.  (The Original Water Tower, That Is.)

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While We're Still Waiting For The Doors To Open, Take A Glance To The Other Side Of The Entrance - Back In The Direction We Just Came From.

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Ah...They Are Finally Opening The Front Door! Come On In!

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BEFORE WE ENTER, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO MY GROUP OF FRIENDS. THEY ARE ALL FROM MY CLASS - THE CLASS OF 1986. THEN WE BEGIN THE TOUR OF QUIGLEY'S INTERIIOR.

RICH
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Loud, Obnoxious, But A Softie Underneath. It Was Like Hanging Around Jackie Gleason Or John Belushi!

JIM
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The ONLY Of Our Class To Actually Become A Priest. But He Had A WILD Sense Of Humor!

JOE
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They Don't Come Any More Laid Back Than Him!

MIKE
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He Became A MAJOR Dephece Mode Fan...Later Got Into Goth. He Was The First To Get Married.

DAN
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Don't Let His Face Fool You...He Was A VERY Sarcastic Prankster!

KEVIN
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I Met Him First. We Explored The Off-Limits Gothic Underground Tunnels Of The Building First Day!

CHRIS
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He Floated In And Out Of The Street Gangster World, But Was A Very Good Friend To Us.

Okay...We've Just Walked Through The Main Entrance On Chestnut St. - Down The Street From The Hancock Building And Water Tower Place Mall Off Michigan Ave.
 
We See Two Small Flights Of Stairs Ahead Of Us - One Going Up, One Going Down. Let's Go Downstairs First...
 
Now, Here We Are Where My Particular Gang Of Friends And I Used To Hang Out Every Morning Before Classes Started. This Is The Only Place Outside Of The Cafeteria Where You Will Find A Soda Machine. We Used To Guzzle Down Sodas And Shoot The Breeze Before Classes.
 
If You Look To The Right, You Will See The Weight Room And The Doors Leading To The LOWER Level Of The Gymn. If You Look To The Left, You Will See The Doors Leading To The Pool Area. Let's Go To The Pool Area First.

FLASHBACK: FRESHMAN YEAR:
Me In The Weight Room - A Laugh At The Time!

FLASHBACK
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FRESHMAN YEAR - A Geek From Hell!

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Behold...The Coldest Pool In The World! (Of Course, NOW It Is Heated...But Not When I Attended!) Quigley North Was The Very First School In The Chicago And Surrounding Areas To Have A Swimming Pool. This Is Below Ground Level At The Bottom Of The School (Save For The Secret Passages I Found With A couple Of My Friends That Actually Take You UNDER The Pool!)
 
But They Never Heated The Pool - From 1905 Until The Late 1990's! It Was About 40-50 Degrees! Lucky Me, All Through My Sophomore Year, I Had Swimming Class FIRST PERIOD In The Morning When Classes Started DURING THE WINTER MONTHS!

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FLASHBACK
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I Was A Swim Team Manager. Along With My Best Friend, Rich. This Photo Was Taken During Senior Year.

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Well, That's The Pool Area. Let's Walk Back Out And Go Back To The Weight Room / Soda Machine Area. Here We Are. Now Let's Go Through The Doors To The Lower Level Of The Gymn And Take A Look.

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FLASHBACK: SOPHOMORE YEAR:
This Was From My Sophomore Year Yearbook, But I Was A Basketball Team Manager All 4 Years.

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I Was A Manager Of Our Basketball Team For All Four Years. So Was My Best Friend, Rich

Well, It's Not Time For Gymn Class Yet. So, Let's Go Back Through The Soda Machine Area And Go Back Up The Stairs Inside The School Front Entrance. Here We Are. This Is The "Hall Of Class Photos". You Can't See Them From This Angle. But On The Sides Of Each Wall Are Quigley's Class Photos - The Earliest Being The Class Of 1905! These Hang From The Middle Of The Wall - Just Above The Marble Part Of The Walls. Half way Down The Hall To The Right Is The Main School Office And Rector (Principal) Office. Just Across From That To The Left Is An Elevator And Restroom. Beyond The Office On The Right Is The Chemistry Classroom. At The Very End Of The Hall, You Would Make A Right, Go Through The Doors, And You Will Find Yourself At The Entrance To The Auditorium Where We Have Our Assemblies And Put On Our Annual Stage Musicals. You Will Also Find Yourself In Front Of One Of The Winding Marble Staircases. If You Go Downstairs, There, You Will Pass A Door To The Back Courtyard And Down More Stairs To The Cafeteria. If You Go UP The Winding Staircase, On The Second Floor, You Will Find Yourself At The Entrance To Our School Chapel, Saint James.
 
But Before We Go In That Direction, Let's Take A Right First To See The UPPER Part Of The Gymn - The Hallway That Looks Over It. Then, We'll Backtrack.

[CONFESSION...THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY THE FIRST FLOOR "HALL OF CLASS PHOTOS". THIS, IN REALITY, IS THE 3rd FLOOR CLASS HALLWAY. MY PHOTO OF THE FIRST FLOOR DID NOT TURN OUT. BUT ALL THREE FLOORS OF THIS PARTICULAR SECTION OF THE BUILDING ALL LOOK JUST LIKE THIS. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT FIRST FLOOR - THE "HALL OF CLASS PHOTOS" DOES NOT HAVE LOCKERS ALONG THE WALLS AND HAS THE CLASS PHOTOS ON EITHER WALL. OTHERWISE, IT LOOKS THE SAME AS THIS PHOTO.]

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Before We Turn The Corner, Let's Take A Quick Peek Up The Stairs. Now That Quigley South Has Merged Into What Used To Be Quigley North, The "Hall Of Class Photos" Continues On Up To The 2nd Floor To Include All Of Quigley South's Separate Older Class Photos As Well As All The Classes Since I Graduated To Today, 2007. Okay. We Won't Go All The Way Up There Just Yet. Back Down The Steps To The First Floor. We Are Going To See The Trophy Case Area And Gymn Balcony.

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We've Just Turned The Corner To The Right And To The Right Side Of Us Is The Trophy Case.

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Just Across From The Trophy Case Is A Door Leading To The Back Courtyard. We Won't See ALL Of It - Just The View From This Particular Door. Let's Open It For Just A Moment And Have A Peek.

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FLASHBACK: JUNIOR YEAR:
Whenever We Took A Fieldtrip Or Had Any Out-Of-School_event, We Would Board The Bus Here In The Courtyrard. These Picks Are Of Me & The Ski Club.

The Ski Club
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Now THIS Was FUN! I'm The Short Guy 2nd From The Right.. Rich Is To My Left.

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Senior Year Charity Bike-A-Thon. We Rode From Downtown To Mundelein, And Back - All Day & Evening

Now We Walk Through The Double Doors In Front Of Us And Walk Halfway Down The Hallway. This Is The Balcony Overlooking The Gymn. If We Were To Continue All The Rest Of The Way Down The Hallway Here, We Would Go Through Another Set Of Double Doors And Find Ourselves In A Classroom Area And The Sophomore Locker Hallway. But We Are, Instead, Going To Go Back The Way We Came And Walk Down Past The Office And Chemistry Classroom. I Am Going To Show You The Auditorium Where The Stage Is.

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Here Is The Auditorium. There Is Not Usually A Projector Screen On The Stage. There Must Have Been An Assembly Here Very Recently During Which They Presented A Slideshow. It Was On This Very Stage That I Gave Some Of Earliest Performances As An Actor. I Don't Remember Freshman Year's Musical At The Moment, But In Sophomore Year, I Played In South Pacific. Junior Year, We Put On The Stage Musical Version Of The Movie, "Some Like It Hot" (Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemon). The Stage Version Is Called "Sugar". I Was Up For Jack Lemon's Part - Being The Only Student Auditioning Who Actually ACTED OUT The Audition Scene (As Opposed To Just READING The Lines), And I Cracked Everyone Up. But The Director That Year Was A Priest Teacher Who Preferred His Class Pet And Gave The Part To HIM Instead. Senior Year, We Put On "Oliver!".

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Before We Jump Onstage, Let's Go All The Way To The Back Of The Audience Area And See What The Auditorium Looks Like From Back THERE.

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Okay...Now We Get Onstage - My FAVORITE Part Of The Room, Of Course!

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FLASHBACK: SOPHOMORE YEAR:
The Annual Musical During My Sophomore Year Was "South Pacific" & Took Place On This Very Stage Back In 1984.

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Our Annual Stage Musical That Year Was

FLASHBACK: JUNIOR YEAR:
The Musical This Year Was, Again, "Sugar" - Musical Version Of Marilyn Monroe/ Tony Curtis / Jack Lemon's "Some Like It Hot".

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Junior Year's Annual Stage Musical, "Sugar",

And Now We Go Back Backstage Just Behind The Red Curtains Where I Used To Get Butterflies Waiting For The Curtain To Open Everytime We Had A Scene Change - ESPECIALLY The Opening Scenes!

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Now Let's Go Almost The Way Backstage - Off To The Sides Where We Waited To Go On.

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Deeper Backstage Where We Sometimes Changed Costumes. It Was Pretty Cramped Back There, Let Me Tell You!

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Back To The Front Of The Stage. I Wish I Had Had The Knowledge And Skills Back Then That I Do Today!

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And Now Back The Way We Came - Back Out The Auditorium Doors To The Grand Back Staircase. Before We Go Upstairs To The Chapel, I'll Take You Downstairs To The Cafeteria First. Hungry? I Am!

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No One Here. Guess We'll Have To Grab Something From The Vending Machines. They've Even Put The Tables Up Already! I Was Hoping For Another Taste Of Cook Sam's  School-Famous, IRRESTIBLE Jumbo Soft Chocolate Chip Cookies! Sam Is No Longer With Us, But I'm Sure He Passed Down His Recipe - Knowing How Much Everyone Loved Them. Oh, Well.

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I'll Go Over And Stand In The Exact Spot Where My Friends And I Ate Nearly Everday For Lunch For All Four Years (Very Occasionally, We Would Go To A Restaurant Down The Street In Water Tower Place, But 9 Out Of 10 Times We Ate Here)! It Was The Table Closest To The Game Tables And Next To The Windows. As A Matter Of Fact, I'll Go Stand In The Exact Spot Where My Part Of The Table Was - I Always Choose The Same Seat - Right At The Far Corner Of The Other Side Of The Table. This Was Where My Friends And I Would Battle Each Other For Each Others' French Fries. This Was Also Where We Got Sprayed With Milk When Jim (The Only One Of Us To Actually Become A Priest) Looked Over And Saw A Clown Enter The Cafeteria, And Began One Of His Laugh Attacks. Rich Dropped His Food. We All Wondered What Was Up. Turned Out It Was A Singing Telegram For Coach Frank Wishing Him A Happy Birthday - Hired By Other Students And Faculty. I Remember Coach Frank Turned Bright Red With Embarrassment! That Was One Of Our Many Memories Down Here In The Cafeteria.

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And Now We Go Upstairs To The 2nd Floor Where I'll Show You The Chapel.

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Here We Enter Saint James Chapel - Which Again, Is Bigger Than Most Churches, But Only Takes Up A Corner Of Our School Building. My Own Photos Came Out Extremely Dark. So, Here Are Some Photos From Various Internet Pages That Show Our Chapel - World-Famous For Its Beautiful, Elaborate Stained Glass Windows And Architecture. We Had Mass Here Before Classes In The Mornings On And Off. I Sang In The Choir Here Up In The Choir Loft Throughout My Years Here. I Was An Altar Boy Here. And During Senior Year, A Small Handful Of Us Were Chosen To Become Ordained Ministers - Meaning That Though We Were Still Students, We Were Authorized By The Chicago Archdiocese To Distribute Communion To Others During Masses. I Also Graduated From Quigley North Here In This Chapel.

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FLASHBACK: SOPHOMORE YEAR:
This Photo Of The Choir Was Taken For My Sophomore Yearbook, But I Was In The Choir All 4 Years.

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The Choir...I Am Third Student From The Right In The Front Row

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This Is The OUTSIDE View Of The Main Stained Glass Window Above The Choir Loft

Below Are A Handful Of Photos I Was Allowed To Take During My Second-To-Last Visit To Quigley / Chicago. These, Fortunately, Came Out Bright Enough.

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These Next Two Photos Are Of Me In The Chapel During THIS Particular Visit.

As We Come Out The Back Of The Chapel, The First Thing We See Is This Winding Stairwell. This Is One Of 2 Stairwells That Lead To Quigley's "Secret Passages"! Of Course, I Expolred Them Both!

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We Then Round Two Corners Past A Couple Of "Spiritual Advisors" Offices (By A Couple, I Mean "Two", Of Course). As We Turn Right Around The Last Corner, We See THIS Site. This Is Freshman Hall. This Is (Or At Least WAS) Where The Freshman Lockers Were. One Difference - When I Was A Student Here, There Were Lockers On BOTH Sides Of The Hall. Good To See The Lockers Are Still The Same Color As When I Was A Freshman. The Doors To The Right Are Classrooms. You Can't See It In This Particular Photo, But At The Corner Here - Just To The Right, There Is A Staircase That Leads One Floor Down. That Is Where The Sophomores Had Their Green Lockers. And, Of Course, To The Right...More Classrooms.

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FLASHBACK: SOPHOMORE YEAR:
This Photo Was Taken Inside One Of The Classrooms In This Hall. It Was For The Yearbook. This Was The After-School Dungeons & Dragons Club, Which I Am STILL Surprised Quigley Allowed!

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Don't Remember If This Was From A Dungeons And Dragons Or War Games Session...Probably D & D!

My Freshman Locker Was Right Across From These Lockers Here. But, Again, It Looks Like They've Removed All The Lockers From That Side Of The Hall. My Locker Was Very Near The End Of This Hallway - Not Far From Another Staircase And The Freshman Bathroom.

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FLASHBACK
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The Art Class Room Was At The Near Corner. This Photo Was Taken Of The Art Guild Senior Year.

As We Turn The Corner At The End Of This Hall, Past The Last Classroom On The Right Side - Which Was Across From My Locker, We Pass The Art Classroom On The Left. On The Right, We Now See A Staircase That Leads Both Up And Down. Ahead Of Us, We See The Hall Door Leading To The Library Hallway. Let's Take A Glance Up The Staircase. Now This Is Interesting Because These Stairs Lead Not QUITE To The 3rd Floor, But To Another Bathroom That Is Off To The Right Above The Art Classroom, And Then On Into The Back Entrance / Exit Of The Very Large Faculty Room. But That Is If You Turn Right. If You Turn Left, You See Another Mini Staircase Leading To The Third Floor Classrooms / Hall. But No Lockers Were Up There, Though. The Junior And Senior Locker Halls Were In The FRONT Section Of The Building Where We First Entered Quigley.

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But I've Decided To Show The Library, So Let's Not Go Up Those Stairs (Or Down) And Head The Direction We Were Going In The First Place. But Before We Go To The Library, Here Is The Freshman Bathroom. All The Bathrooms Basically Looked Much Like This - Very Old - Which Was Cool To Me.

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We've Opened The Hall Door Just Beyond The Staircase And Freshman Bathroom, And This Is The Library Hallway. The Entrance Is Further Down Closer To The Next Set Of Double Doors. 

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We've Just Passed Windows On The Left That Used To Peek Into Offices - The School Dean's Office Was In That Area. But Now We Come To The Windows Of The Library Itself.

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Now That We Have Entered The Library, Let's Stop At The Librarian's Counter.

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To The Left From Where I'm Standing At The Librarian's Counter, Is Where Many Of Us Sat During Study Hall. Back In 1982-1986, Though, There Were, Of Course, No Computers. It Was Just A Group Of Table And Chairs - Like The Ones You See Here - Except That Ours Were Much Older And Worn.

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To The RIGHT Of The Librarian's Counter Are Shelves Of Books. On The Other Side Of The Shelves Used To Be A Couple Of Cubicles We Used During Study Hall - Where Many Of Us Used To Dose Off For Awhile Behind The Separators. Behind Where I'm Standing Was The Dean's Office And A Couple Other Little Offices - Including The Main Librarian's  - Father Benesh At The Time We Attended - Who Was A Very Old Man Mostly Long Retired From Actual Teaching Except For An Occasional Latin Class.

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Just Behind Me Back Outside The Library Is The SECOND Staircase That Leads To Quigley Secret Passageways, Tunnels, And Rooms Forbidden To Students. But Did I Let That Stop Me? Of Course Not!

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We've Walked Down The Rest Of The Library Hallway, Past The Double Doors. To Our Left Was The Dreaded Disciplinarian's Office  - Referred To As Its Number - 209 - Where Mr. McGreal And Father Mayall Would Determine Punishments For Every Five Demerits On A Student's Demerit Card. Every 5 Demerits Meant "Jug" - Our Word For Detention - Which Meant You Had To Hand-Copy Many Passages From Books After The School Day Had Ended. 5 Demerits Meant 1 "Jug". 10 Demerits Meant 2 "Jugs". 15 Demerits Meant 3 "Jugs", And So On. If A Student Reached 25 Demerits In One Semester, He Was Expelled. I Hardly Got Any Demerits, Luckily. But Once In Awhile I Get One. I Never Got Over 5 Per Semester, Though, That's For Sure! Most Of My Demerits Were During Junior Year When I Made A Point To Stand Up For Myself And Started Being Much More Sociable With Other Students In General Besides My Own Group Of Friends.
 
Okay, Well, Our Photo Of THAT Didn't Turn Out, So On We Go Aronund The Corner To Senior Locker Hall. Classrooms To The Right. All Halls In THIS Section Of The Building Look Just The Same. So We'll Go Upstairs To The Junior Locker Hall. Again, It Looks Exactly The Same. Heading Now To The End Of The Hall Back To The Grand Winding Staircase In The Back.

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FLASHBACK
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The Rooms Used For The School Newspaper Staff, "The Candle" Were Here. Photo Taken Freshman Year.

FLASHBACK: SOPHOMORE YEAR:
The Math Club Pictured Below, Met After School Once A Week On The Third Floor In This Section Of The Building.

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The Math Club - One Of SEVERAL Such Clubs I Was A Member Of

Now We Are At The Very Top Of The Winding Staircase On The 3rd Floor. Take A Look Down!

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FLASHBACK: THE DORMS
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Quigley Had A Dorm Where We Lived Throughout The School Year. These Were My Dorm-Mates.

FLASHBACK: THE DORMS
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This Was Me Freshman Year By Myself In The TV Room. Previous Was Also In The TV Room Freshman Year.

FLASHBACK: THE DORMS
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This Was In My Dorm Room With My Roommate. After Freshman Year, I Lived In The Room Alone.

Well, I'd Love To Show You More Of Quigley, But I AM On A Tight Schedule Today, So We Must Conclude Our Tour. We'll Go Back Down The Winding Staircase, Back Through The Double Doors, Back Down The First Floor "Hall Of Class Photos", We'll Stop In The Office To Let Them Know We Are Leaving, Then We'll Head Back Out The Front Door - The Same Way We First Came In.

Now I Am Off Down Michigan Ave. To Visit My Old Workplace, Leo Burnett Advertisement Headquarters On Wacker Dr Alongside The Chicago River. Then It Is Off To See My Old College Further Down Michigan Sve., Columbia College - School Of The Arts. We Can Turn And Take One Look Back At The General Quigley Area. Hope You Had Fun. I Did!

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MORE QUIGLEY MEMORIES AS I REMINISCE...

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Rich Became Our School Mascot - The Norseman. Don't Know Which Would Be Scarier - Him Or A Real One!

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That's Rich's Hand Helping Jim Stuff His Face!

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Joe In One Of His More Animated Moments!

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Mike Emerges From THE Coldest Pool In The World Alive!

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Knowing Dan, He Is Probably Waving AFTER Dropping Something On Somebody!

Now Here Are The Photos Of The School Itself. I've Gone Into Some Detail Of It In "My Memoirs" Part I On My Original Site. Even With These Photos And My Text, I Couldn't BEGIN To Show You The Scope Of This Place! But, Maybe, After You View These Photos, You Can See Why I Was Attracted To This School As Opposed To The Garden Variety, Boring Suburban Catholic Schools!! This Place Was Too Interesting And Exciting!

Yup! That Is ALL Part Of Our School!
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An Overhead View Of Quigley North In The Heart Of Downtown Chicago Across From The Hancock Building

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One Of The MANY Rather Demonic-Looking Gargoyles That Adorned Our Medeival Palace-Like School

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A DEFINATE Demonic Gargoyle On Our School Building!

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One Of The Corners Of Quigley North

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This Is QN's Chapel...JUST The Chapel! The Chapel Takes Up Only A PORTION Of The Structure!

Thanks For Visiting!

 
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