Lane Technical College Prep High School

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Lane Technical College Prep High School
Motto Wherever you go, whatever you do, remember the honor of Lane
Established 1908
Type Public (magnet) secondary
Principal Dr. Antoinette LoBosco
Students 4,278[1]
Grades 9–12
Location Chicago, Illinois, USA
Oversight Chicago Public Schools
Colors Myrtle Green and Gold
Mascot The Indian
Newspaper The Warrior
Website www.lanetech.org

Lane Technical College Preparatory High School, colloquially known as Lane Tech, is a public four-year magnet high school located in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the oldest schools in the city, and with an enrollment of over four thousand students, it is the largest. According to the school's website, Lane has produced more Ph.D. holders than any other high school in the country. [2]

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Named after Albert Grannis Lane, Lane Tech was founded in 1908 and dedicated on Washington's birthday in 1909 as the Albert Grannis Lane Manual Training High School. The school's name was changed in the same year to the Albert Grannis Lane Technical High School to reflect the expanding curriculum. The name was only recently changed to Lane Technical College Prep High School. The original location of the school was on Division and Sedgwick in Chicago.

Within the first few years of the school's operation, students could take advantage of a wide array of technical classes. Freshmen were offered carpentry, cabinet making, and wood turning. Sophomores received training in foundry, forge, welding, coremaking and molding. Juniors could take classes in the machine shop. Seniors were able to take electric shop which was the most advanced.

By 1930, Lane Tech had a student population of over 7,000. To alleviate the burden of such a large student body, plans for a new school were drawn up by Board of Education architect John C. Christensen. The groundbreaking ceremony was on June 24, 1930 and the location of Western and Addison is where the current school stands today.

Upon the school’s completion at its new location, over 9,000 students marched from Wrigley Field on its dedication day September 17, 1934. Lane's huge student body necessitated that classes be held in three shifts.

During World War II, Lane Tech students ran drives to aid in the war effort. The drives generated over $3 million in war bonds, a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber and four Red Cross ambulances. Additionally the shop classes constructed a glider which was given to the military.

Lane adopted a closed admission policy in 1958 on the school's 50th anniversary. All remedial classes were eliminated and only top tier students were admitted to the school. This coincided with the beginning of the space race between the United States and the USSR. Lane changed its educational policy to help ensure that the United States would not fall behind the Soviets in science and technology.

In 1971 one of the most drastic changes in Lane's history occurred. Citing a drop in enrollment and lack of technical schools for girls, Superintendent James Redmond recommended that girls be admitted to Lane Tech. The Board of Education concurred and girls were admitted as students for the first time. Fifteen hundred male students protested the change but the decision was not changed. The fear was that academic achievement at the school would suffer, but that has proven not to be the case.

Lane Tech is located on a 33-acre campus at the intersection of Addison and Western, and is currently the largest high school in the state of Illinois. The main building is similar to an A-shape and consists of four floors. Some unique features of the main building include the clock tower and the smoke stack.

Several fast food chains, restaurants, supermarkets, and specialty stores are conveniently located around the Lane Tech campus. The school is one of only three Chicago Public Schools allowed open-campus lunch.

The Lane Tech Auditorium is currently being upgraded thanks to an anonymous donation from an alumnus and the 2008 Lane Tech Centennial program. New seats were installed in late 2006 on the ground floor, but were not replaced on the balcony. The speaker system of the auditorium will be upgraded.

During the spring 2007 season, Chicago city building inspectors declared Lane Stadium unsafe and condemned the stadium. The age of the stadium and the fact it was built on landfill raised causes for concern that using the stadium to full capacity would cause a structural collapse. Events affected were the 2007 graduating class ceremony (moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago), the annual Letterman versus Faculty Softball game, the annual Memorial Day assembly, and the 2007 Pep Rally.

Prior to this event, plans were under way to renovate the old stadium with funds by the NFL Grassroots Grant and other sources.

Lane Stadium reopened Friday September 7 with a new turf field. The stadium will also feature a new IHSA regulation track.

The Lane Tech Memorial Garden is located in the inner courtyard of the building and is dedicated to graduates who have lost their lives in defense of our country. At the east end of the formal garden is a bronze statue of a young Native American, created by the artist, J. Sazton. It is called, "Shooting the Stars" and it symbolically urges students to set their sights on lofty goals.

At the west end of the Memorial Garden is the Ramo I. Zenkich Memorial, consisting of a flag pole and granite monument inscribed with the names of the students from Lane Tech who lost their lives in the Vietnam conflict.

The Memorial Garden was rededicated in 1995. During the school’s 90th anniversary celebration in 1998, a commemorative plaque was placed near the “Shooting the Stars” statue. It explains the significance of the Memorial Garden to Lane Tech and its students.

Lane offers six concentrations for students to choose from: Honors, Core, Technology, Architecture/Engineering, Art, and Music. Education To Careers (ETC) programs are offered in automotive mechanics, machines, electronics, computers, radio-TV, theatre technology, architectural drafting, computer aided drafting, art, accounting and music.

Honors classes are offered to qualified students. Advanced Placement (AP) courses are available in English, history, math, science, art, music, computer science and world languages. The Lane Scholars Program for top-achieving students provides financial support for college testing.

The Honors Alpha Program is a hands-on, multi-disciplinary study of the sciences for students interested in scientific research. Students of the program learn at an accelerated pace compared to regular and honors classes and may receive more class credits.

Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) is also available for interested students, replacing their normal physical education classes. The program sponsors the Proctors Club, Color Guard, Honor Guard, Drill Platoon, Drum & Bugle Corps, and Raiders of Lane Tech.

Lane Tech offers the following sports: baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, cross-country, football, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track, volleyball, wrestling, and water polo.

Lane Tech garners, on average, 7-10 city-championships per year and has won 16 state championships since 1908. Numerous Lane Tech athletes have competed beyond the high school level and achieved success at the college level and beyond.

More information on Lane Tech Athletics can be found at http://www.lanetechfan.com/, a website devoted to Lane Tech sports history and sports news and information. The website is run by Lane Tech Alumnus and has no affiliation with the official school website.

The Chicago Sun-Times also has a web page dedicated to Lane Tech sports and it can be found at http://highschoolsports.suntimes.com/schools/lane/index.html

Lane Tech features many clubs, most of them being ethnic clubs.

  • A.B.C. (Puerto Rico)
  • Aspira (Puerto Rico)
  • Aztlan (Mexico)
  • Black Student Union
  • British
  • Cambodian
  • Chinese
  • Colombian
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuadorian
  • Espana (Spain)
  • Filipino
  • French (previously called 'L'Entourage')
  • German
  • Guatemalan
  • Hawaiian
  • Hellenic Society (Greece)
  • Indian
  • Irish
  • Israeli
  • Italia
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Middle Eastern
  • Organization of Latin American Students (O.L.A.S.)
  • Pakistani
  • Polish
  • Romanian
  • Thai
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese

Lane Tech is the only school in Illinois to still have a Memorial Day rally. In years past, Mr. James Finnerty presided over commemorating the veterans, but since his death Mr. George Semenek has taken over his duties. Lane Tech also has a school wide pep rally every year before the homecoming game.

Within the last two years, some controversy had taken place over Keith Foley, the former principal, incorporating religious ideas into a public school. These accusations were never proved true.

  • Spirit Week: Week preceding Homecoming including dress up days to encourage school spirit.
  • Homecoming: Annual Pep Rally, Football Game, and Dance
  • Turkey Bowl: Annual Letterman versus Staff Football Game prior to the Thanksgiving Holiday
  • Christmas Concert: Annual concert prior to the Christmas Holiday
  • Memorial Day Observation: Annual gathering of students to honor the fallen and veterans of the United States
  • International Days: Yearly festival celebrating various cultures around the world through traditional folk dances.

The school song "Go, Lane, Go" was written in 1915 by a student named Jack T. Nelson. Lane was one of only a few schools at the time to have an original school song. The song can be downloaded through the Lane Tech Website.

Go, Lane
For we are here to cheer for you,
Go, Lane
to you we'll e'er be true.
Be fearless and bold for the Myrtle and the Gold,
Add laurels to our fame
(Go, Lane, Go)

Go, Lane; we're with you,
Go Lane we'll cheer you,
Go, Lane and win this game;
Just take this as a little tip,
we're bound to win the championship,
So Go, Lane, Go, Lane Go!
(We're with you!)
Go, Lane, Go Lane, Go!

(Hit `em high! Hit `em low!)
Go Lane Go!

President Clinton's Chief of Staff John Podesta.
President Clinton's Chief of Staff John Podesta.

The Lane Tech Alumni Association was established through the efforts of the January and June classes of 1932 and their involvement in the school's Diamond Jubilee celebration in 1983. The organization grew and was incorporated in 1986. Its purpose is to promote and enhance the reputation of Lane Tech, to provide scholarships, to assist and meet with Lane Tech students in preparing them for higher education and life after graduation, to disseminate and publish information regarding the graduates' accomplishments, to preserve the history of Lane, and to foster a closer fellowship among the graduates.

As of March 2006, Lane Tech Alumni Association has over 5,900 active members all over the world. As a result, the Lane Tech Alumni Association has the largest membership of any high school alumni organization in the entire United States.[citation needed]

The Lane Tech Alumni Association hosts Events, Reunion Information, and works to help all Lane Tech Alumni Advance and stay connected to each other.

Notable alumni include

Another alumnus, Fritz Pollard, was the first African-American to be selected a college All-America while at Brown University, the first African-American to play in the annual Rose Bowl Game, and the first African-American to coach in the NFL.[1] He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.[2]

Filming for the movie The Express, starring Dennis Quaid, took place during the 2006-2007 school year in Lane Tech stadium. The empty lot adjacent to the stadium was used as crew parking, and star trailers were parked there.

This is not the first movie to be filmed at Lane. Lane's stadium was also used for some parts of the 1986 movie, Wildcats, starring Goldie Hawn and Swoosie Kurtz.

More recently, a scene in the movie High Fidelity was filmed on the east lawn of the Lane Tech campus.

  • Lane Tech (2006) Lane Tech Student Handbook, Chicago, IL.
  1. ^ Lane Tech College Preparatory High School Information Sheet. CPS. Retrieved on 2007-05-23.
  2. ^ About Lane Tech. CPS. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
  3. ^ School Days: Lane Tech High School. ABC 7 Chicago. Retrieved on 2005-21-10.
  4. ^ Good Morning, Vietnam (1987). IMDB. Retrieved on 2007-27-07.

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