• Enrollment: 317 (yearbook head count) - 69 seniors, 81 juniors, 81 sophomores, 86 freshmen
• Feb. 6, 1975 - Closure of Holy Names closure announced to the public
• March 5, 1975 - Gonzaga Prep going coed announced
• Sept. 2, 1975 - First day of school
• Gonzaga Prep was the 4th Jesuit all-boys school to become coed.
• Number of teachers added: 17
• Total teachers 1975-1976: 55
• Number of Jesuit teachers: 13 faculty, 5 administrators/other
• Number of religious sister teachers: 4
• First sports team to win state title: Golf, 1993, next would be girls basketball, 2014
• First Lilac princess: Patrice Sweeny 1976
• First Lilac Queen: Tamara Sweeney 1978
• First female Chair of Board of Trustees: Marilyn McKenna
• Valedictorians for 1975-76 school year: Loretta Mary Bertis and Rosemary Levernier
• First female ASB president: Brigid (Flynn) Henderson, 1989
• February 21, 1976: First father-daughter dance
• May 29, 1979: Closing of Marycliff announced
• In 1975, about 30 percent of the student body were girls, today it averages 50 percent.
• In 1979 Prep’s enrollment reaches 1060. The class of `79 includes girls who attended Prep for four years.
• Enrollment: 317 (yearbook head count) - 69 seniors, 81 juniors, 81 sophomores, 86 freshmen
• Feb. 6, 1975 - Closure of Holy Names closure announced to the public
• March 5, 1975 - Gonzaga Prep going coed announced
• Sept. 2, 1975 - First day of school
• Gonzaga Prep was the 4th Jesuit all-boys school to become coed.
• Number of teachers added: 17
• Total teachers 1975-1976: 55
• Number of Jesuit teachers: 13 faculty, 5 administrators/other
• Number of religious sister teachers: 4
• First sports team to win state title: Golf, 1993, next would be girls basketball, 2014
• First Lilac princess: Patrice Sweeny 1976
• First Lilac Queen: Tamara Sweeney 1978
• First female Chair of Board of Trustees: Marilyn McKenna
• Valedictorians for 1975-76 school year: Loretta Mary Bertis and Rosemary Levernier
• First female ASB president: Brigid (Flynn) Henderson, 1989
• February 21, 1976: First father-daughter dance
• May 29, 1979: Closing of Marycliff announced
• In 1975, about 30 percent of the student body were girls, today it averages 50 percent.
• In 1979 Prep’s enrollment reaches 1060. The class of `79 includes girls who attended Prep for four years.